NUR 131 - Maternal, Newborn Nursing and Women’s Health

4 credit hours - 30 hours of lecture and 90 hours of directed laboratory per term.
Develop nursing concepts, principles, and skills to provide care that optimizes the health and wellness of one to two adult clients.  The focus is specific to women’s health from adolescence through menopause and initial care of the newborn that have predictable outcomes to include both healthy women and newborns as well as those with alterations of functioning of biopsychosocial systems. Lab fee $250. Clinical fee $250.

Prerequisite(s): NUR 120 , NUR 121  and NUR 122  with a grade of C or better.

Note: Typically offered at MC; fall and spring terms.

Course Outcomes:
 

1. Care Provider:  The nursing student develops the utilization of the 5 steps of the nursing process to determine and provide nursing care that is holistic, systematic, evidence-based, safe and grounded in understanding of the sciences, humanities, cultural diversity and nursing theory to women and newborn clients. 

NUR 131 Sub Learning Outcomes for Care Provider:

1. Develops evidence-based nursing care based on the application of the sciences, humanities, and nursing theory.
2. Utilizes the use of the nursing process to provide safe and accurate nursing care to women and newborn clients and their families in various settings.
3. Delivers care that is holistic, systematic, evidence-based, culturally sensitive, and safe for women and newborn clients and their families.

2. Investigator:  The nursing student begins to develop data analysis, question assumptions, and approach all women and newborn clients with a curiosity resulting in safe clinical decisions that improve the quality of care. 

NUR 131 Sub Learning Outcomes for Investigator:

1. Recognizes and begins to question deviations from optimum health status and uses these to guide safe clinical decisions for women and newborn clients.
2. Recognizes variations along the developmental continuum in the individual women and newborn clients.
3. Utilizes health care technologies to promote research, analysis, interpretation and integration of data that aids in developing individualized nursing care plans for women and newborn clients in a variety of settings.

3. Professional:  The nursing student develops the implementation of the professional role in ways that reflect integrity, responsibility, ethical practices and an evolving identity as a nurse. 

NUR 131 Sub Learning Outcomes for Professional:

1. Demonstrates behaviors that reflect confidentiality, integrity, responsibility, and professional ethics.
2. Demonstrates accountability in implementing the prescribed care regimen for the client with predictable health problems within the legal, ethical and regulatory frameworks of nursing practice.
3. Demonstrates a commitment to ongoing self-improvement and self-analysis of professional performance.

4. Collaborator:  The nursing student develops collaboration with women and newborn clients, families and the health care team to provide coordinated care that is holistic, safe and individualized.

NUR 131 Sub Learning Outcomes for Collaborator:

1. Collaborates with peers, faculty, and begins to collaborate with selected members of the interdisciplinary health care team to optimize the understanding of client care in a variety of settings.
2. Recognizes the need to advocate for women and newborn clients and their families in various settings with appropriate members of the interdisciplinary health care team to provide safe, organized and prioritized care.

5. Educator:  The nursing student develops the utilization of teaching and learning strategies to promote knowledge that optimizes decisions related to health and wellness for women and newborn clients, families, peers and the community

NUR 131 Sub Learning Outcomes for Educator:

1. Assesses the educational need, begins to plan and implement educational strategies that promote positive health and wellness outcomes for women and newborn clients and their families.
2. Begins to utilize technology resources used to develop and implement client education.
3. Evaluates the effectiveness of client teaching and modifies as necessary to achieve positive health outcomes for women and newborn clients and their families.

6. Communicator:  The nursing student develops the utilization of professional and therapeutic communication strategies with women and newborn clients, families, and the health care team to promote positive client outcomes.

NUR 131 Sub Learning Outcomes for Communicator:

1. Identifies therapeutic communication strategies for women and newborn clients of various developmental levels.
2. Identifies professional communication strategies for women and newborn clients of various developmental levels. 

3. Utilizes technology to communicate and document women and newborn client related data.