Nurses Caring for Family II: Pediatric Health and Wellness

1.5 Course Unit

Building on prior learning of the family, this course focuses on nursing care that influences the health and healing capacities of infants, children, adolescents, and their families/caregivers. Using a developmental systems approach to family-centered care and incorporating pediatric transitions, this course addresses pediatric nursing phenomena of concern from infancy through adolescence. Family-centered care incorporates pediatric transitions of care evidenced in the health maintenance of the well-child and as well as in the illness-recovery continuum. The course emphasizes clinical reasoning; family-centered strategies for optimizing health, promotes optimal developmental, physiological, and psychological functioning; and enhancing strengths within the context of family and social determinants of health to promote and advance health and health equity. Content and clinical experiences integrate developmental considerations for pediatric populations and develop clinical reasoning, skill acquisition in nursing care, and clinical inquiry. Summer Term Prerequisite: NURS 5050 Corequisite: NURS 5190 1.5 Course Unit