NURS 357 Pediatric Nursing-Th & Lab
Integrates knowledge from the humanities and sciences into the holistic and informed care of pediatric patients with select developmental and acute and/or chronic medical-surgical problems. Normal growth and development, physiology, common pathophysiology, and special quality and safety considerations in the care of clients from infancy through adolescence are emphasized. Skill in critical thinking and clinical problem solving is expanded, practiced, and refined. Therapeutic communication skills, therapeutic nursing interventions, levels of prevention, and the nursing process, are applied in a variety of acute care, ambulatory care, community, and long term care settings. Each 300 level nursing clinical course must be successfully completed in order to progress to the subsequent clinical nursing course. Offered fall and spring semester. Prerequisites: NURS 234, NURS 334, BIOL 206, BIOL 207, BIOL 210, SCIE 144, SCIE 301, SCIE 302, and PSYC 250.