2.50 Credits
Addresses safe family-centered nursing care to children. This course fosters the ability to adapt care to a child's developmental level and focuses on promoting health, as well as providing atraumatic care from infancy through adolescence. Health education is stressed throughout the course. This course is designed to further develop the concepts of accountability, advocacy, caring, cellular regulation, clinical decision making, collaboration, communication, culture, development, diversity, elimination, ethics, evidence-based practice, family, grief and loss, fluid and electrolyte balance, health care systems, health policy, health/wellness/illness, illness, infection, inflammation, metabolism, oxygenation, perfusion, professional behaviors, quality improvement, reproduction, safety, spirituality, teaching and learning, therapeutic communication, time management/organization, tissue integrity, and violence. 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 242 and 244.