Lab: 3 hours/week
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.
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
Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- 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;
- Demonstrate the knowledge, attitudes, skills, and abilities necessary for competent performance of psychomotor skills commonly used in nursing practice in pediatric and obstetrical settings;
- Demonstrate the consolidation, integration, and application of theory from previous and concurrent courses by applying knowledge to simulated nursing practice experiences;
- Refine nursing practice skills, including critical thinking, clinical reasoning and judgment, organization, and relational skills.
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.
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.