NURS 2111 - Nursing 3

Institution:

College of Coastal Georgia

Subject:

Nursing

Description:

This course integrates concepts from the child-bearing family and adult and child health. Content will focus on the biopsychosocial needs of clients throughout the left span. Utilizing a safe, systematic, caring, holistic approach, students will provid care for the healthy and at-risk adult, child, and child-bearing woman experiencing physical problems which interfere with the individual's ability to meet human needs. Building on previous concepts, students will learn to care for multiple clients with complex health problems in acute care and community based settings. Students will assess physical, psychosocial, and developmental needs of the family while fostering family unity. Students will plan and implement care for clients with needs related to family planning, parenting, and congenital alterations in the newborn. The roles of provider, teacher, manager, and advocate are emphasized as well as the essential competencies identified in the program philosophy. Students will utilize critical thinking skills in classroom learning activities, laboratory and in acute and community based clinical settings. This is a nine credit course in the first semester of the second year of the nursing program. Students will have four hours of class and an average of 15 hours of laboratory or clinical experiences per week.

Credits:

9.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture/Lab

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Institution Website:

www.ccga.edu

Phone Number:

(912) 279-5700

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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