BNURSE 332 - Applied Critical Thinking in Maternal-Child Nursing

1. Synthesize knowledge from the arts and sciences to provide nursing care to the reproductive family during antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum phases as well as the care of the pediatric client/family.
2. Analyze the role of the nurse, using clinical reasoning, evidence-based practice, and family centered care when caring for the pediatric and reproductive family with medical-surgical, mental, and cognitive conditions.
3. Explain systems-based practice to enhance collaboration to coordinate and manage health care for the reproductive family / pediatric client/family that promotes health and prevents illness.
4. Describe the application of clinical judgment in the nursing care for a reproductive family / pediatric client/family.
5. Examine the indications, implications, side effects, contraindications, patient teaching and safety precautions for clients receiving medication and non-pharmacological treatments related to course theory content.
6. Evaluate the pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, diagnostic tests, medical and nursing management of conditions experienced by the reproductive family / pediatric client/family.
7. Implement health promotion activities and hazard prevention with the client/family/caregiver related to the common medical surgical, mental, and cognitive conditions experienced by pediatric and reproductive/newborn clients, taking into account relevant social determinants of health.
8. Apply growth and development theories to enhance effective communication, patient education, and advocacy for the perinatal family and pediatric client/family.
9. Describe nutritional requirements for patients to support health and growth and development across the lifespan.

1. Integrate knowledge from the arts and sciences to manage the care of clients across the life span using evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning to inform decision making. 
2. Provide holistic, person-centered, population health care to diverse populations including community and public health. 
3. Utilize research information to improve health of diverse clients across the life span. 
4. Minimize harm to clients through quality assurance and improvement. 
5. Use systems-based practice to coordinate and manage care to provide safe, quality, and equitable care. 
6. Integrate informatics and other healthcare technologies to inform decision making when managing and delivering safe, high-quality, and efficient health care in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards. 
7. Demonstrate accountability for personal and professional development, including the professional identity of a bachelor of science prepared registered nurse, and life long learning. 
8. Apply leadership principles and quality improvement when intentionally collaborating with the interdisciplinary health care team to provide evidence-based, safe quality nursing care. 

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.