It is the intent of faculty to facilitate student learning, and promote critical inquiry, reflection and analytical reasoning through a variety of learning processes such as lecture, client-based scenarios, group discussion and debate, and use of electronic resources.
In this course, nursing practice with childbearing and childrearing families, newborns, infants, children and adolescents are the foci of discussion. Concepts and essential content that will be addressed relative to these topics are listed below. In addition, the core curriculum concepts are integrated in this course.
Selected emerging health trends/issues/challenges
Growth and development
- Individual
- Family
- Parenting
Family
- Family-centered care
Reproductive health
- Genetics
- Conception
- Sexual health
- Family planning
Pregnancy - Antepartum
- Fetal Development
- Fetal well-being
- Maternal physiological, psycho-social and emotional changes
- Prenatal care
- Healthy beginnings
- Common, predictable and emerging health challenges
Childbirth - Intrapartum
- Maternal physiological, psycho-social and emotional changes
- Labor
- Fetal assessment
- Delivery/Birth
- Cesarean section (peri-operative)
- Common, predictable, emerging and unpredictable health challenges
Course Content Continued:
Pregnancy - Postpartum
- Maternal physiological, psycho-social and emotional changes
- Assessment and care
- Discharge planning and teaching
- Childbearing families – role transitions
- Common, predictable and emerging health challenges
Newborns, infants, children and adolescents
- Assessment and care
- Adaptation (newborn), growth and development
- Nutrition
- Common, predictable, emerging and unpredictable health challenges
- Immunization
- Communicable diseases
- Safety
Pain
- Pharmacological management
- Non-pharmacological management
Interprofessional Collaboration
Health promotion
Illness and injury prevention
Teaching and learning
- Application of theory
- Strategies (e.g. play)
Social determinants of health
Vulnerability
- Separation
- Fear and anxiety
- Trust
- Atraumatic care and psychosocial needs
- Transition to community and home
- Abuse and neglect
Cultural safety and competence
Legal and ethical issues (e.g. informed consent, confidentiality)
Loss and end of life issues
At the end of this course the successful student will be able to:
- Critically reflect on health issues and trends relevant to pediatric and maternity populations and consider implications for nursing practice.
- Describe the role of the nurse as a member of an interprofessional team working with pediatric and maternity clients and their family members.
- Apply knowledge to formulate evidenced-informed, client-centered nursing decisions for the provision of safe, competent and compassionate care for childbearing and childrearing families, newborns, infants, children and adolescents.
- Using a relational perspective, examine how childbearing and childrearing family experiences are contextually situated.
- Apply theories of growth and development and teaching and learning principles for promoting health and preventing illness/injury for childbearing women, newborns, infants, and children, and their family members.
- Demonstrate awareness of how the concept of family-centered care informs nursing practice with childbearing and childrearing families.
The course evaluation is consistent with Douglas College Evaluation Policy. A course evaluation schedule and other course evaluation information are provided on the Instructor’s Course Outline which is available to students at the beginning of each semester. This is a graded course.
Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students:
A list of recommended textbooks and materials is provided on the Instructor’s Course Outline which is available to students at the beginning of each semester.