2020-2021 Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
    May 10, 2024  
2020-2021 Catalog and Student Handbook [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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PN 106B - Family Nursing


Credits: 3
Description
Emphasizes normal growth and development and prevention, promotion, and maintenance of health while providing family health care. Focus on child bearing, the neonate, infant and children through the growth years.

Student Learning Outcomes
  1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, caring interventions in the maternal/newborn and pediatric setting to stable childbearing families and children of various cultures within the scope of practice of a Licensed Practical Nurse.
  2. Identify and participate in quality improvement processes to improve the care of childbearing families and children.
  3. Participate as a member of the interdisciplinary team when collaborating with health care professionals and providing care in maternal/newborn and pediatric settings. (Human Relations)
  4. Use information management systems and patient care technology to avoid errors, communicate, update knowledge or patient information, and support decision making in the care of childbearing families and children.
  5. Use clinical reasoning to promote health, psychosocial, and physiologic integrity as it relates to childbearing families and children.
  6. Exhibit legal, ethical, and professional standards in practice when providing care in maternal/newborn and pediatric settings.
  7. Demonstrate pediatric dosage calculations and safe pediatric medication administration (MATH).

Prerequisite: None



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