Description
Credit Hours: 3.5
Prerequisites: All year-one courses and NRS 220/ 220C, SCI 265, SCI 315
Pre/Corequisites: SCI 240, HUM ____:World of Ideas, SSC 235
Corequisites: NRS 240C, NRS 245
This course focuses on developing partnerships with women and childbearing families to promote and maintain health. Selected changes in the family and in the health of women are addressed. New knowledge and skills build on the frameworks of caring and community-based nursing care. Selected nursing assessment skills are introduced and applied. Use of the nursing process enhances critical-thinking skills as needs of women and childbearing families are explored. Beginning nursing leadership concepts are explored. Students identify the influence of economics on the health and well being of women and childbearing families.