Summer 2009
NURS.4425 Strategies for Professional Nursing: Childbearing Families
This course resides in the Department of Family Nursing Care
The
Course Packet will be available on E-Reserves
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
| The
course focuses on the application of theories to the nursing care of childbearing
families in transition. Emphasis is on the nurse's partnership role with
childbearing families and other healthcare professionals in the provision
of care. In addition, the course examines issues related to women's health
during the childbearing years. Ethical and legal issues relating to reproduction
and to newborn nursing practice are explored. |
CREDIT AND TIME ALLOCATION
| 4
semester hours (2 credit hours class, 2 credit hours clinical; 30 total
class hours/90 total clinical hours) |
PREREQUISITES
| NURS.3203 , NURS.3520 & NURS.3610 |
COURSE OBJECTIVES
1.
Apply the nursing process in the provision of comprehensive care to childbearing
families.
2. Participate as partners to customize care with women and their families
during the childbearing
experience.
3. Employ therapeutic communications skills while implementing the professional
role.
4. Utilize critical thinking skills in designing and implementing comprehensive
care.
5. Apply theory and research findings in providing care for the childbearing
family.
6. Utilize collaborative skills while engaging in professional practice.
7. Demonstrate ethical and legal behaviors as related to standards of
practice in the care of childbearing
families.
8. Relate principles of self-management to one's own learning. |
CLINICAL OBJECTIVES
1. Assess the childbearing family across environments to include:
a. Health history
b. Physical examination
c. Family assessment
d. Behavioral assessment of newborn
e. Risk assessment
2. Identify factors influencing pregnancy outcomes.
3. Establish appropriate nursing diagnoses.
4. Identify strategies for health promotion, risk reduction, disease prevention with childbearing families
(eg., preconception/prenatal nutrition, sexual practices).
5. Psychomotor Skills
a. Fetal assessment
b. Assessment of antepartal, intrapartal, postpartal and newborn patient
c. Vital signs, growth measurement, growth charts
d. Thermal regulation for newborn
e. Special considerations for medication administration to newborns (eg., injections, eye prophylaxis)
f. Heel sticks
1.Glucose monitoring
g. Safety (eg., infant identification, abduction avoidance, positioning & holding, suctioning)
h. Newborn hygiene (eg., bathing, nutrition considerations (breast/bottle feeding), circumcision &
cord care)
i. Postpartum special care such as breast and perineal care
6. Manage physical & psychological manifestations across the childbearing continuum
7. Apply pain management techniques for childbearing women and newborns
8. Evaluate the effectiveness of nursing care.
9. Demonstrate safe, therapeutic, and customized nursing care
10. Incorporate patient education into nursing care
11. Partner with patients to develop culturally appropriate childbearing experiences.
12. Use data and information from a variety of sources in documentation.
13. Employ developmentally appropriate communication skills in interactions with childbearing family
members.
14. Document patient care
15. Demonstrate professional role behavior.
16. Identify and address barriers to therapeutic communication.
17. Demonstrate scholarship for the acquisition and application of new knowledge to practice.
18. Apply critical safety interventions in nursing practice across environments.
19. Demonstrate safe clinical judgment in planning and providing care.
20. Evaluate goal achievement based on identified outcome criteria.
21. Demonstrate the principles of teaching/learning in patient care delivery.
22. Demonstrate application of theory and research findings in providing care to childbearing families.
23. Assist patients to access information and to interpret meaning and validity of health information.
24. Collaborate in multidisciplinary care planning.
25. Refer patients to appropriate health care resources.
26. Assist patients to access health care delivery.
27. Practice according to the code of ethics and professional standards.
28. Apply ethical principles to resolve issues and implement a plan of care.
29. Demonstrate accountability and responsibility for own behavior.
30. Incorporate principles of self management into one's own learning
31. Seek appropriate assistance and utilize guidance to facilitate own learning. |
CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION / GRADES
|
The letter grade will be determined by examinations
which are weighted as follows:
30% - Exam
1
30% - Exam 2
40% - Exam 3
100% - Total |
Final grades are based on the following scale:
A = 90-100%
B = 80-89%
C = 70-79%
D = 60-69%
F = Below 60% or clinical failure |
Clinical is graded pass/fail. A student must pass clinical to pass the course. A clinical grade of F will result in a course grade of F, regardless of the average of exams. |
SCHOLASTIC DISHONESTY
| Students are expected to be above reproach in all scholastic activities. Students who engage in scholastic dishonesty are subject to disciplinary penalties, including the possibility of failure in the course and dismissal from the university. "Scholastic dishonesty includes but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, collusion, and submission for credit of any work or materials that are attributable in whole or in part to another person, taking an examination for another person, any act designed to give unfair advantage to a student or the attempt to commit such acts." Regents Rules and Regulations, Part One, Chapter VI, Section 3, Subsection 3.2, Subdivision 3.22. |
American with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accommodations
| Any student seeking ADA Accommodations under the American with Disabilities Act should contact the Associate Dean for Students within the first week of the semester so that appropriate accommodations may be arranged. A Request for Accommodations (Form 100) must be completed. These forms are available in the Office for Students Room: 1.118-16 |
REQUIRED TEXT / REFERENCE
Lowdermilk, D.L., and Perry, S.E. (2007) Maternity and Women's
Healthcare. (9th ed) St. Louis:
Mosby
Required texts from Semesters I and II will be used during this course. |
RECOMMENDED (OPTIONAL) TEXT / REFERENCE
|
Hockenberry, M. Wong's nursing care of infants and children (8th ed). St. Louis: Mosby |
CONTENT OUTLINE
| See calendar and course packet as posted on ERES. |
CALENDAR - First Week Only
Please check the Summer 2008 Schedules for recent updates on Class Dates & Room.
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