This course focuses on the application of the nursing process in the provision of primary and secondary prevention and strengthening the childbearing family lines of defense and resistance to environmental stressors. The student will provide care for the patient/client experiencing stressors affecting the physiological, psychological, sociocultural, developmental, and spiritual variables of the family during pregnancy, childbirth, neonatal, and postpartal periods. The student will provide care within the acute care and the community environments. This course includes 2.0 credit hours of theory (30 clock-hours) and 1.0 credit hour of clinical (45 clock-hours).

Admission to the Nursing Program.