NURS 243 - Family Health Concepts for Nursing Practice II

Institution:

Harrisburg Area Community College-Harrisburg

Subject:

Nursing

Description:

Addresses safe family-centered nursing care to children. This course fosters the ability to adapt care to a child's developmental level and focuses on promoting health, as well as providing atraumatic care from infancy through adolescence. Health education is stressed throughout the course. This course is designed to further develop the concepts of accountability, advocacy, caring, cellular regulation, clinical decision making, collaboration, communication, culture, development, diversity, elimination, ethics, evidence-based practice, family, grief and loss, fluid and electrolyte balance, health care systems, health policy, health/wellness/illness, illness, infection, inflammation, metabolism, oxygenation, perfusion, professional behaviors, quality improvement, reproduction, safety, spirituality, teaching and learning, therapeutic communication, time management/organization, tissue integrity, and violence. A course fee is required. Enrollment is restricted to students in the Nursing AS program. Prerequisite: NURS 151; BIOL 221; and PSYC 209 with grades of C or higher. Corequisite: NURS 242 and 244.

Credits:

2.50

Credit Hours:

Prerequisites:

Corequisites:

Exclusions:

Level:

Instructional Type:

Multiple

Notes:

Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.hacc.edu

Phone Number:

(717) 780-2300

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

The Course Profile information is provided and updated by third parties including the respective institutions. While the institutions are able to update their information at any time, the information is not independently validated, and no party associated with this website can accept responsibility for its accuracy.