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 women, infants, children, and adolescents are the foci for discussion in the context of family as client. 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
- Interprofessional Collaboration
- Cultural competence
- Cultural safety
- Cultural humility
- Health promotion
- Evidence-based practice
- Health informatics
- Social determinants of health
- Legal and ethical issues in pediatrics (e.g. informed consent, confidentiality)
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
Pregnancy - Intrapartum
- Maternal physiological, psycho-social and emotional changes
- Labor
- Fetal assessment
- Delivery/Birth
- Cesarean section (peri-operative)
- Common, predictable, emerging and unpredictable health challenges
Pregnancy - Postpartum
- Maternal physiological, psycho-social and emotional changes
- Assessment and care
- Discharge planning and teaching
- Childbearing families – role transitions
- Common, predictable, emerging and unpredictable health challenges
Infants, children, and adolescents
- Anatomical and physiological differences from adults
- Assessment and care
- Adaptation (newborn)
- Growth and development / epigenetics
- Nutrition
- Common, predictable, emerging, and unpredictable health challenges
- Immunization
- Communicable diseases
- Safety
- Illness and injury prevention
- Communication
Pharmacology
- Developmental pharmacology / ontogeny
- Pediatric medication calculations
Pain
- Assessment in newborns, infants, children, and adolescents
- Pharmacological management
- Non-pharmacological management
Teaching and learning
- Application of theory
- Strategies (e.g. play)
Vulnerability
- Separation
- Fear and anxiety
- Trust
- Atraumatic care and psychosocial needs
- Trauma informed practices
- Abuse and neglect
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.