PNUR 243 - Family Health Concepts for Practical Nursing II

Institution:

Harrisburg Area Community College-Harrisburg

Subject:

Description:

Addresses safe family-centered practical 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, acid-based compensation, 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, infection, inflammation, metabolism, oxygenation, perfusion, professional behaviors, quality improvement, safety, spirituality, teaching and learning, time management/organization, tissue integrity, and violence. A course fee is required. Enrollment is restricted to students in the Practical Nursing certificate. Prerequisite: BIOL 221 with a grade of C or higher; Students are to follow a cohort and take courses that follow a sequence designed by the Department of Nursing.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

Prerequisites:

BIOL 221

Corequisites:

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Level:

Instructional Type:

Multiple

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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

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