NUR 221 - Nursing Care of Children and Families

4 credit hours - 30 hours 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 pediatric clients and their families. This includes both healthy children and those with alterations in functioning of one or more biopsychosocial systems with predictable outcomes. Lab fee $250. Clinical fee $250.

Prerequisite(s): NUR 131  and PSY 211  with a grade of C or better.

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

Course Outcomes:
 

1. Care Provider:  The nursing student will continue to develop 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 pediatric clients. 

NUR 221 Sub Learning Outcomes for Care Provider:

1. Continues to develop evidence based nursing care based on the application of the sciences, humanities, theories of growth and development and nursing theory.
2. Utilizes and refines the use of the nursing process to provide safe and accurate nursing care to common to complex pediatric clients and their families in various settings.
3. Delivers care that is holistic, systematic, evidence based, culturally sensitive and safe for up to two pediatric clients and their families.

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

NUR 221 Sub Learning Outcomes for Investigator:

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

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

NUR 221 Sub Learning Outcomes for Professional:

1. Articulates and demonstrates behaviors that reflect confidentiality, integrity, responsibility, and professional ethics.
2. Demonstrates accountability in implementing the prescribed care regimen for the client with complex 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 will continue to develop collaboration with pediatric clients, families and the health care team to provide coordinated care that is holistic, safe and individualized. 

NUR 221 Sub Learning Outcomes for Collaborator:

1. Collaborates with peers, faculty, and increases collaboration with members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team to optimize the understanding of client care in a variety of settings.
2. Begins to advocate for pediatric 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 will continue to develop utilization of teaching and learning strategies to promote knowledge that optimizes decisions related to health and wellness for pediatric clients, families, peers and the community.

NUR 221Sub Learning Outcomes for Educator:

1. Assesses the educational needs, plan and implement appropriate educational strategies that promote positive health and wellness outcomes for pediatric clients and their families.
2. Utilizes technology resources to develop and implement client education.
3. Evaluates the effectiveness of client teaching and begins to evaluate the learning strategies to modify as necessary to achieve positive health outcomes for pediatric clients and their families.

6. Communicator:  The nursing student will continue to develop utilization of professional and therapeutic communication strategies with pediatric clients, families, and the health care team to promote positive client outcomes.

NUR 221 Sub Learning Outcomes for Communicator:

1. Begins to adapt therapeutic communication strategies for pediatric clients of various developmental levels.
2. Begins to adapt professional communication strategies for pediatric clients of various developmental levels.
3. Utilizes technology to communicate and document pediatric client related data.