NURS 4510 - Nursing Care of Children

Credits: 5

Prerequisites: NURS 4509
Corequisites: NURS 4510 NURS 4511
This course provides the theoretical basis and clinical practice experiences for development of professional nurse roles in providing developmentally appropriate holistic care for children and their family. Emphasis is placed on health promotion, maintenance, and restoration during childhood through adolescence. Knowledge is acquired to allow the professional nurse to use evidence based practice to provide high quality care to pediatric clients facing a vast variety of health issues. Knowledge gained in this course will provide the foundation required for competent care of the pediatric client. In addition to theory, this course requires the completion of 90 clinical hours.

Term Offered: Fall