PNE 107 - Basic Principles of Obstetrical Nursing

3 Credit(s)

This course focuses upon the role of the Practical Nurse in caring for clients and families experiencing childbirth and the evaluation of the newborn. The primary emphasis is on basic human needs during pregnancy, labor and delivery, postpartum period and the newborn. The responses of the childbearing client and family are discussed. This course covers the role of the nurse in meeting the physiological, psychosocial, cultural and developmental needs of the maternal client. Antepartal, intrapartal and postpartal care, complications of pregnancy, newborn care; human growth and development; nutrition, pharmacology, cultural diversity, use of technology, communication, anatomy and physiology review, medical terminology, critical thinking and application of the nursing process are integrated throughout this course.

Contact Hours: 90
Clinical: 67.5
Hours Lecture: 22.5
Prerequisite: Program Admission, PNE 110, PNE 101, PNE 102, PNE 103, PNE 104, PNE 105, PNE 106
Corequisite: PNE 108, PNE 109