NURS 242 - Family Health Concepts for Nursing Practice I

Institution:

Harrisburg Area Community College-Harrisburg

Subject:

Nursing

Description:

Covers the safe nursing care of women, newborns, and childbearing families. This course is designed to develop the concepts of accountability, advocacy, behaviors, caring, clinical decision making, collaboration, communication, culture, diversity, ethics, evidence-based practice, family, grief and loss, health care systems, health policy, health/ wellness/illness, illness, infection, oxygenation, perfusion, professional behaviors, quality improvement, reproduction, safety, sexuality, spirituality, teaching and learning, therapeutic communication, thermoregulation, time management/organization, and violence as they relate to safe nursing care during the antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum periods. Special consideration is placed on events that are common in the normal life cycle. A course fee is required. Enrollment is restricted to students in the Nursing AS program. Prerequisite: NURS 151; BIOL 221; and PSYC 209 with grades of C or higher. Corequisite: NURS 243 and 244.

Credits:

2.50

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Instructional Type:

Multiple

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Institution Website:

www.hacc.edu

Phone Number:

(717) 780-2300

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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