PRN0121C — Practical Nursing Process 3
PRN 0121C - Practical Nursing Process 3 PRN 0121C - Practical Nursing Process 3 The health-illness continuum is covered including pathophysiological processes, medical-surgical interventions, and nursing care of various disorders. This course encompasses family planning issues, normal fetal growth and development, pregnancy, labor and delivery, healthy newborn, high-risk pregnancies and complications during and after delivery, gynecological problems, and nursing care for normal and high-risk pregnant women and infants, communication skills, mental health status and psychosocial functioning, therapeutic nurse/patient relationship, psychodynamics of behavior, patterns of specific maladaptive behavior, moral/ethical/legal dilemmas, crisis theory and intervention, and group therapy. In addition, students discuss current issues in health care, nursing leadership, transition into the workplace, mental health and end of life. Students use the QSEN model in acute and long-term care settings. Clinical experiences are provided in various healthcare facilities under faculty supervision which allows students to progress toward a graduate practical nurse. Post-Secondary Adult Vocational
Prerequisites: PRN0120C