Course

Health Assessment: Maternal and Child Care

Faculty
Health Sciences
Department
Nursing
Course code
NURS 3312
Credits
2.50
Semester length
15
Max class size
24
Method(s) of instruction
Lab
Course designation
None
Industry designation
None
Typically offered
To be determined

Overview

Course description
In this course, students learn the holistic assessment of pregnant and post-partum people, infants, children, and adolescents. Students practice psychomotor skills used in maternity and pediatric nursing practice. Knowledge development occurs through active participation and experiential learning. Students complete one half of the course in maternity and the other half in pediatrics.
Course content

Holistic health assessment of patients and newborns in the maternity setting:

  • Stable intrapartum and post-partum assessment
  • Newborn assessment
  • Perioperative assessment
  • Assessing for complications
  • Reporting and documenting assessments and nursing care

 

Holistic health assessment of children in the pediatric setting:

  • Differences between children and adults (physiological, equipment, approach, etc.)
  • Comprehensive assessment
  • Focused systems assessment
  • Vital signs assessment
  • Fluid balance assessment
  • Pain assessment (developmental approaches)
  • Reporting and documenting assessments and nursing care

 

Psychomotor skills commonly used in nursing practice with stable maternity and pediatric clients:

  • Developmentally appropriate and atraumatic care
  • IV therapy (including syringe medication module)
  • Medication administration
  • Specimen collection
  • Enteral feeding and medication administration
  • Newborn nutrition and feeding
  • Newborn bath

 

Safety

  • Review of safe work practices
  • Infection transmission precautions
  • Handling biohazardous materials
  • Additional safety considerations for pediatric clients
  • Seizure precautions
  • Injury prevention
  • Cultural safety, humility, and anti-racist practices

 

Nursing care of pediatric and maternity clients:

  • Communication
  • Care planning/nursing process
  • Client and family teaching
Learning activities

Faculty will facilitate the student's integration of nursing theory and promote the development of critical inquiry, clinical reasoning and judgment through learning activities such as lectures, demonstrations, return demonstrations, case studies, simulations, and group discussions.

Means of assessment

This is a graded course, and the means of assessment are consistent with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy. The instructor's course outline will be available to students by the first class and list the evaluative components of the course.

Learning outcomes

Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate the knowledge, attitudes, skills, and abilities required for holistic, comprehensive and focused assessment of stable pregnant and post-partum people, infants, children, adolescents, and their families;
  2. Demonstrate the knowledge, attitudes, skills, and abilities necessary for competent performance of psychomotor skills commonly used in nursing practice in pediatric and obstetrical settings;
  3. Demonstrate the consolidation, integration, and application of theory from previous and concurrent courses by applying knowledge to simulated nursing practice experiences;
  4. Refine nursing practice skills, including critical thinking, clinical reasoning and judgment, organization, and relational skills.
Textbook materials

The instructor's course outline will be available to students by the first class and list the required textbooks and materials that students must purchase.

Requisites

Course Guidelines

Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.

(Current)

Course Transfers

These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca

Institution Transfer details for NURS 3312
There are no applicable transfer credits for this course.

Course Offerings

Winter 2025

CRN Days Instructor Status
Maximum seats
16
Currently enrolled
15
Remaining seats:
1
On waitlist
0
Building
Coquitlam - Bldg. C
Room
C2020
Times:
Start Time
8:30
-
End Time
11:20
CRN Days Instructor Status
Maximum seats
16
Currently enrolled
13
Remaining seats:
3
On waitlist
0
Building
Coquitlam - Bldg. C
Room
C2020
Times:
Start Time
12:30
-
End Time
15:20
CRN Days Instructor Status
Maximum seats
16
Currently enrolled
14
Remaining seats:
2
On waitlist
0
Building
Coquitlam - Bldg. C
Room
C2020
Times:
Start Time
8:30
-
End Time
11:20
CRN Days Instructor Status
Maximum seats
16
Currently enrolled
15
Remaining seats:
1
On waitlist
0
Building
Coquitlam - Bldg. C
Room
C2020
Times:
Start Time
12:30
-
End Time
15:20