NRSG 1320 - Women’s Health and the Childbearing Family

3 sem hrs cr (2 lecture; 1 clinical/lab)

This course applies the core concepts that provide the basis for the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are essential for providing safe nursing care for women, infants, childbearing patients and families including pharmacological management. Prerequisite: NRSG 2730 Medical-Surgical Nursing II , NRSG 1330 , BIOL 2230 ; ENGL 1020 , PSYC 2130 , or COMM 2025  

  Prerequisite or Corequisite: ART 1035 , ART 2000 , ART 2020 , ENGL 2045 , ENGL 2130 , ENGL 2235 , ENGL 2310 , ENGL 2320 , ENGL 2330 , MUS 1030 , or THEA 1030  

In rare and unusual circumstances, a course prerequisite can be overridden with the permission of the Department Lead for the discipline. 

Transfer (UT) or Non-Transfer Course (UN): UN

To successfully complete NRSG 1320, the student will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Professional Behaviors
  • Conduct self in a professional manner in dress and behavior while caring for clients and interacting with clients, instructors, peers, and the healthcare team.
  • Practice within the legal, ethical, and regulatory frameworks of the nursing profession.
  • Maintain confidentiality and incorporate ethical/legal principles in documentation, discussions, and performance of care.
  • Identify and document areas of self-growth through weekly self-evaluation.
• Communication
  • Apply principles of therapeutic communication to interactions with clients, families, and members of the healthcare team.
  • Report and document, according to agency guidelines, pertinent client information related to client problems.
• Assessment
  • Identify abnormal diagnostic findings, relate to client, and begin to discuss nursing implications.
  • Perform physical assessment and utilize data to identify client problems.
• Clinical Decision Making
  • Utilize critical thinking to make clinical judgments and management decisions to plan and provide accurate and safe care, with instructor guidance.
  • Develop a concept map utilizing the nursing process and incorporating fundamental, maternal-newborn, and community health concepts, with instructor guidance.
• Caring Interventions
  • Integrate spiritual and cultural issues of clients/families with planning and providing care, with instructor guidance.
  • Demonstrate adequate clinical preparation, as outlined in syllabus, to provide safe, effective client care.
  • Maintain a safe client care environment by identifying and correcting safety problems.
  • Apply principles of medical and surgical asepsis while caring for clients.
  • Demonstrate competency in previously learned psychomotor skills and theory and apply this in the clinical setting.
  • Apply growth and development concepts to client situations and implement appropriate nursing interventions to promote health and client education in both inpatient and community settings, with instructor guidance.
  • Develop a nursing plan of care utilizing the nursing process and incorporating fundamental, maternal-child, and community health concepts, with instructor guidance.
• Teaching
  • Utilize growth and development concepts to identify health teaching needs for clients of all ages, develop and implement a teaching plan, with instructor guidance.
  • Evaluate client learning and identify how the teaching plan may be modified, with instructor guidance.
• Collaboration
  • Collaborate with clients, families, and healthcare team when planning care.
  • Collaborate with clients, families, and healthcare team when implementing care.
• Coordination and Management
  • Identify prioritization of client needs and nursing actions to ensure positive outcomes, with instructor guidance.
  • Recognize fundamental concepts of delegation in the healthcare setting.