NURS 2146 - Childbearing Family Nursing Credit Hours: 2.00 Prerequisites: Admission into the Nursing Program; NURS 1456 and NURS 1475 all with grade C or better, or grade Pass (if the course is a Pass/Fail course)
Corequisites: NURS 2175
(replaces NURS 2145)
This theory course focuses on planning safe, culturally-diverse, patient and family-centered nursing care for the childbearing family. It emphasizes using evidence-based practice and quality improvement initiatives to develop critical thinking skills in caring for the childbearing family.
Location: Center Campus
Contact Hours: 8 per week for 4 weeks Billable Contact Hours: 2 OUTCOMES AND OBJECTIVES MCC Common Degree Outcomes:
II. The graduate can demonstrate how to think competently.
V. The graduate is sensitive to issues relating to a diverse, global society.
Program Outcome/Student Learning Outcome:
- The student can analyze and apply the critical components of evidence‐based nursing practice.
Course Outcome:
- The student can apply evidence‐based practice for the childbearing family.
Course Objectives:
- The student will apply evidence‐based nursing interventions while caring for the patient on the electronic fetal monitor.
- The student will apply evidence‐based nursing interventions while providing prenatal care.
- The student will apply evidence‐based nursing interventions for the patient experiencing induction/augmentation of labor.
- The student will apply evidence‐based nursing interventions for pain management in labor.
MCC Common Degree Outcomes:
I. The graduate can integrate the knowledge and technological skills necessary to be a successful learner.
II. The graduate can demonstrate how to think competently.
Program Outcome/Student Learning Outcome:
- The student can recognize quality improvement strategies as an integral component of nursing practice.
Course Outcome:
- The student can explain national patient safety goals and quality indicators for the childbearing family.
Course Objectives:
- The student will describe national patient safety goals and quality indicators when caring for the normal newborn and prevention of sudden infant death syndrome.
- The student will describe national patient safety goals and quality indicators when caring for the breastfeeding mother.
- The student will describe national patient safety goals and quality indicators when teaching the patient about birth control.
COMMON DEGREE OUTCOMES (Bulleted outcomes apply to the course)
- 1. The graduate can integrate the knowledge and technological skills necessary to be a successful learner.
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- 2. The graduate can demonstrate how to think competently.
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- The graduate can demonstrate how to employ mathematical knowledge.
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- The graduate can demonstrate how to communicate competently.
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- 5. The graduate is sensitive to issues relating to a diverse, global society.
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COURSE CONTENT OUTLINE Unit 1
INTRODUCTION TO BIRTH: THE NEWBORN AND POSTPARTUM
- The Process of Birth
- Parent‐Infant Attachment
- Post‐partum Nursing Assessment
- Newborn Transition to Extra‐uterine Life
- Newborn Nutrition
- Introduction to Cesarean Birth‐Scheduled Cases
- Birth Control Options
- Discharge Planning for Mother and Newborn
- Cultural Diversity of the Childbearing Family
- Newborn Assessment
Unit 2
CARE OF THE LABORING FAMILY
- Fetal Assessment
- Pharmacologic Management of Pain
- Maternal Adaptations to Labor and Birth
- Non‐pharmacologic Management of Pain
- Nursing Care of the Laboring Woman
Unit 3
PREGNANCY, ABORTION, AND PARENTING
- Pregnancy
- Preconception care
- 1st trimester
- 2nd trimester
- 3rd trimester
- Nursing Ethics and Elective Abortion
- Parenting Education
- Pharmacology Content
- Antibiotics
- Birth Control
- Immune globulins
- Oxytocics
- Narcotics
- Nonsteriodal Anti‐inflammatory agents
- Vaccines
- Vitamins
Primary Faculty DeBoer, Karen Secondary Faculty Panek, Krystina Associate Dean Shaw, Andrea Dean Mirijanian, Narine
Official Course Syllabus - Macomb Community College, 14500 E 12 Mile Road, Warren, MI 48088
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