Master Resource Outline

 

Course Title: Primary Care for Childbearing and Childbearing Families

Credits: 6 (3 lecture, 3 clinical lab)

Semester Offered: Summer

Prerequisites: NRSG 601, NRSG 602, NRSG 603, NRSG 604, NRSG 605, NRSG 607

Degree: DNP

DNP Essentials: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII

Graduate Program Objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

 

Course Description:

Focuses on comprehensive assessment, intervention, and preventive care for childbearing and childrearing families in primary health care settings. Recognizing and valuing the holistic nature of individuals within families, this graduate nursing course will include content on physiological, pathophysiological, psychological, developmental, sociocultural, and spiritual primary health care needs of childbearing and childrearing families.

 

Course Objectives:

  1. Demonstrate effective communication and collaboration skills in providing treatment, preventive
    care, and advocacy for childbearing and childrearing families with emphasis on rural, primary
    care settings.
  2. Analyze individual and family responses to primary health care issues, guided by a variety of
    relevant theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives.
  3. Evaluate healthcare strategies, guided by identified concepts and perspectives for treatment and
    preventive primary care of childbearing and childrearing families.
  4. Disseminate findings from evidence based interventions for health promotion and treatment of
    primary health care needs of childbearing and childrearing families.
  5. Implement diagnostic reasoning skills, critical thinking, and science of therapeutics to improve
    patient outcomes for childbearing and childrearing families.
  6. Evaluate the effectiveness of nursing strategies used to provide primary care for childbearing and
    childrearing families.
  7. Synthesize knowledge about culture and ethnicity into the development, implementation and
    evaluation of nursing strategies.

 

Practice Experience in the Curriculum:

  • Practice immersion experiences afford the opportunity to integrate and synthesize the essentials and
    specialty requirements necessary to demonstrate competency in an area of specialized nursing practice.

 


Approved/Modified by GAAC: 10/31/12; modified 1/30/12; amended 11/5/12; 1/13/14
Approved/Modified by Faculty: 4/9/12; modified 1/7/2013; 2/10/14