General Information

• Name: Nursing Care Childbearing Family Theory
• Discipline: Nursing (NURS)
• Units (Credits): 2
• Schedule History: See when this course was offered over the last three years.
• Transfer Information: Courses with numbers 100 to 299: This course is designed to apply toward a WNC degree and/or transfer to other schools within the Nevada System of Higher Education, depending on the degree chosen and other courses completed. It may transfer to colleges and universities outside Nevada. For information about how this course can transfer and apply to your program of study, please contact a counselor.
• Academic Division: Nursing and Allied Health

Prerequisites and Recommended Courses

• Prerequisites: admission to the nursing program
• Corequisites: NURS 264 & NURS 265

Course Outline

I: Catalog Course Description

Introduces concepts of holistic care for the normal and high-risk antepartum, intrapartum and post-partum woman; the normal and high-risk newborn; women experiencing common alterations in the reproductive system, and alterations in family processes, including concepts of loss, grieving and family violence. Knowledge of nursing care of patients and their families is organized using the framework of the nursing process and bio/psycho/social/cultural and spiritual needs.