PRNU 200:PN Women’s Health

Credit Hours: 2.5; 30 Hours of Clinical Experience
Lecture hours per week: 2
Introductory concepts in maternal and neonate nursing will be discussed with emphasis on evidence-based nursing practice for women’s health from reproductive years and beyond. Nursing care through pregnancy, antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum periods, including, but not limited to, the knowledge, skills, and attributes essential to providing compassionate cultural care to meet the health needs of the mother and neonate. A discussion of anatomical, physiological, pharmacological, and nutritional theory related to the care of maternity clients. This course includes a 30-hour clinical component for students to integrate obstetrical nursing theory into practice under the supervision of a nurse faculty member. 30 hours theory, 30 hours clinical

Enrollment in the program courses (PRNU) is limited to those students who have been selected and admitted to the program. Program courses are sequenced by semester and must be taken as a group each semester per program requirements and policies.