NUR 112B : Parent-Child Health Nursing, Part B: Pediatric Nursing
This course focuses on the development needs of the growing family during the childbearing and child-rearing phases. IT emphasizes assisting the members of the growing family to maintain the ability to meet their developmental needs and/or to regain this ability when threatened by homeostatic deviances. Students continue to use the nursing process to develop basic nursing skills in the college and clinical laboratories. Evening and weekend hours are used for clinical teaching. Two lecture and six practice hours per week in laboratory, hospitals, and healthcare settings. Instructional support fee applies. Prerequisites: NUR 111A and NUR 111B with a grade of C+ (77) or better and satisfactory clinical completion and NUR 112A with a grade of C+ (77) or better.
Course Outcomes
1. Describe the theory that serves as the basis for selecting nursing interventions to assist patients within the growing family in maintaining the ability to meet
developmental needs and/or regaining this ability when threatened by homeostatic deviances.
2. Apply the nursing process in assisting patients within the growing family to maintain or regain the ability to meet developmental needs when threatened by
homeostatic deviances.
3. Communicate verbal, non-verbal, and written communications in goal-focused interactions with members of the growing family, faculty, and agency staff.
4. Provide developmental needs information from standardized teaching guides as needed by patients within the growing family.
5. Collaborate with other health team members in addressing patient problems.
6. Identify situations and policies which impact on patient rights and well-being.