NURS 4532 - Maternal Child Nursing Care

Credit(s): 5

This course builds upon a prerequisite knowledge base from core curriculum, previous, and concurrent nursing courses. Students will care for clients from birth to adolescence and women and their families in the antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum periods. This course emphasizes acute and complex health needs of the perinatal period, neonates, and children. In addition, students will think critically about issues related to the care of families and clients experiencing labor and birth. Students will use the nursing process when providing holistic care to women, children, and their families while integrating individual and cultural considerations.

Repeated: No Prerequisite Course(s): NURS 3623, NURS 3324, NURS 3325

Co-requisite Course(s): NURS 4631, NURS 4230, NURS 4532/4002