Experience of Perinatal 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 the healthy newborn, postpartum patient, and family. 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 normal pregnancy and birth, high risk pregnancy and obstetric complications, and education of the childbearing family. Learners will use the nursing process and introductory clinical judgment to identify person-centered priority nursing actions to 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 role of the nurse and the patient in collaborative interprofessional health care delivery and the implications for use of clinical informatics will be discussed. Prerequisites: 5702, 5703 and 5704. [3]