NM 346 - Family Nursing II

The focus of this course is the nursing care of a child within a family context. This course addresses care of the pediatric patient from infancy through adolescence. The class examines the common stressors for the child and family throughout the growing years and evidence-based nursing interventions to help deal with these stressors. The critical nursing roles of health promotion and disease prevention within the stages of infancy through adolescence are major threads throughout this course. Developmental stages of children, including common health concerns at these stages, are examined within a family and cultural context. 4.00 semester credit hours Contact Hours: 90.00 Prerequisite: MA 320 Statistics, EN 251 Writing About Literature, NM 230 Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice, NM 245 Cultural Diversity in Nursing, NM 335 Designing and Managing Nursing Care. Corequisite: NM 341 Family Nursing I, EN 116 Speech.