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Undergraduate Catalog 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

NURS 216 - Women’s and Infant’s Health 6 hours

This course is designed to provide the foundation for entrylevel competence in women’s and infant’s health. Critical thinking skills and evidence-based practice concepts are applied to multiple nursing scenarios. Emphasis is placed on developing nursing care for a woman with an uncomplicated or complicated pregnancy, the normal and high risk infant and women’s reproductive and postreproductive health and health deviations. Various developmental theories are presented to assist the student in analyzing growth and development from birth through middle age adults. Communication, legal-ethical concepts, patient education and pharmacological, nutritional and sociocultural principles are integrated throughout the course. This nursing course is offered to nursing students at the campus site they regularly attend. The lecture portion of the course may be offered by in-classroom instruction or by interactive video classroom technology. Prerequisites: Admission to the Nursing Program; NURS 210 , NURS 211 , NURS 212 , NURS 213 , NURS 214 , NURS 215 . $35 lab fee.