Experience of Pediatric Health and Illness

3 credits · School of Nursing

As part of a didactic series examining the human experience of health and illness across the lifespan from infancy through senescence, this course focuses on infants, children, and adolescents experiencing acute and chronic illness. Learners will explore genetic and genomic factors, current evidence, and the social determinants of health as the foundation for examining health promotion, epidemiology, pathophysiology, and nursing management of adaptive and maladaptive processes in pediatric patients and families. Learners will use the nursing process and introductory clinical judgment to identify person-centered and family-centered priority nursing actions to holistically prevent, manage, or improve problems within body systems. The influence of growth and development, sex, gender, psychosocial, and cultural factors on the health of individuals, families, and populations will be discussed. The roles of the nurse, patient, and family in collaborative interprofessional health care delivery, and the implications for use of clinical informatics will also be discussed. Prerequisites: 5702, 5703, 5704. [3]