Women's and Children's Nursing

Women's and Children's Nursing prepares students to provide safe, equitable, high-quality nursing care, pharmacological care, and emotional support for diverse women and pediatric populations. This course focuses on antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, neonatal clinical nursing, and women's health. This course builds on growth and development of children, nursing care for children and adolescents with acute and chronic alterations of the respiratory, cardiovascular, hematologic, endocrine, reproductive, gastrointestinal, renal, neurologic, musculoskeletal, and integumentary systems. This course explores how social determinants of health impact health risk and outcomes in women and pediatric populations. A variety of populations and settings are used in the experiential learning components of this course. Co-requisites: D445 and D446. Prerequisites: All prelicensure nursing curriculum courses from previous terms.

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