by Susan A. Johnson, Ph.D., RN
This
course explores the needs of childbearing families and children experiencing
the childbearing process, surgery and health conditions common to these client
systems. The nursing process within the primary health care framework is used
to assist the student in facilitating the client and his/her family in adapting
to the condition and returning to and maintaining a state of optimal wellness.
Age specific therapeutic nursing interventions within the primary health care
framework are emphasized. Principles of leadership, management, coordination,
and evaluation as applied to the self and client systems are explored.
Community concepts include home visit process, referrals, resources,
school-based nursing, and public health concerns related to children and
families.
NUR 302 - Clinical Applications of Primary Health Care
This
course is the clinical component to NUR 301 and is taken concurrently. Students
implement the nursing process within the primary health care framework to
provide nursing care to childbearing families and children in a variety of
inpatient and outpatient clinical settings in the community. Using
communication and critical thinking skills the student works in partnership
with others to provide holistic health care to identified clients from
culturally and socioeconomically diverse settings.
NUR 405 - Clinical
App-Indi/Comms
This
course is the clinical component of NUR 404 and is taken concurrently. It
focuses on promoting primary health care with the community as client. It
promotes the synthesis of concepts from nursing and health, liberal arts and
sciences, and the sociopolitical, cultural and economic dimensions of community
as a whole. Students have guided experiences in community settings to develop
further practice competencies, including communications, collaboration,
critical thinking, teaching/learning, management and leadership and delegation,
coordination and evaluation of client care. In this clinical component, the
student participates in the care of a community as client, develop partnerships
with other professionals and internalize the role of the professional nurse
while working collaboratively with a nurse preceptor.