PNURSE 114 - Pediatric Nursing and Reproductive Health

1. Identify normal/abnormal pathophysiology of common medical surgical, mental, and cognitive conditions experienced by pediatric and reproductive/newborn clients.
2. Discuss the etiology, clinical manifestations, diagnostic tests and medical management of common medical surgical, mental, and cognitive conditions experienced by pediatric and reproductive/newborn clients.
3. Describe the role of the nurse, using the nursing process and clinical judgment and family centered care when caring for the pediatric and reproductive/newborn client and client/family/caregiver with common medical surgical, mental, and cognitive conditions experienced by clients both at home and during hospitalization.
4. Identify nutrition, hazard prevention, health promotion activities and communication with client/family/caregiver related to the common medical surgical, mental, and cognitive conditions experienced by pediatric and reproductive/newborn clients.
5. Examine the indications, implications, side effects, contraindications, client/family/caregiver teaching and safety precautions for pediatric and reproductive/newborn clients receiving medication related to course theory content.
6. Identify developmental theories pertaining to the care of the pediatric client as well as growth and development of pediatric clients.
7. Describe legal, ethical, social determinants of health, cultural and ethnic diversity considerations when providing care for clients across the lifespan.
8. Discuss the normal and high-risk pathophysiology and adaptations of antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum mother and baby dyad.
9. Describe the nursing care of the client experiencing normal and abnormal labor and delivery including the adolescent, using the nursing process and clinical judgment.
10. Describe the nursing care of the normal and high-risk mother/newborn client during the postpartum period using the nursing process and clinical judgment.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgment that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• 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.