RNUR2034 — Pediatric Care
Academic Division: Nursing 4 Credit(s) This course addresses the needs of the pediatric population. Focus is placed on health promotion, health assessment, holistic wellness, maintenance of health, and recognition of illness for children from infancy to adolescence. Students will incorporate essential concepts of critical thinking, therapeutic communication, collaboration, prioritization, and clinical judgment into the nursing care of children. Students will analyze family dynamics and community resources impacting the pediatric population. Evidence-based practice standards and atraumatic care are integrated as alterations in physiological, developmental, and genetic factors are explored in this population. 1 Clinical Hour(s); 0 Cooperative Work Hour(s); 0 Directed Practice Hour(s); 1 Lab Hour(s) 2 Lecture Hour(s); 0 Practicum Hour(s); 0 Seminar Hour(s); Required 0 Utilize critical thinking in use of the nursing process when caring for clients and families with common medical-surgical and psychological stressors interfering with basic human needs. (I, II) Test week # 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 16. Skills testing week #13 Clinical Evaluation Tool week #15 2.0 Interpret, report, and document appropriate and accurate information as an integral member of the health team. (I, IV) Clinical Experience Worksheets week# 2-15 Clinical Evaluation Tool week #15 3.0 Apply psychosocial principles while developing therapeutic relationships with individuals experiencing medical-surgical and psychologi
Prerequisites: RNUR1070, RNUR1125, RNUR1054, RNUR1060