NURS 355C - Nursing of Childbearing Family Clinical

2 Credits
This clinical course utilizes experiential learning for the student to provide nursing care for the childbearing family. Special emphasis will be placed on the care of prenatal, laboring, postpartum, and newborn clients. Students will incorporate concepts of family planning, the reproductive process, fetal development, intrapartum maternal changes, and the use of the clinical judgment model to develop and implement plans of care across the health continuum. The focus of the course is on the use of clinical judgment to provide safe, evidence-based, person-centered care to childbearing families. NURS 355C requires 90 hours of clinical practice for the semester.

Grade Note(s): A grade of B- or better is required to pass this course successfully.
Fees: Additional course fees apply.
Component Corequisite(s): NURS 355 and NURS 355C.The lecture, lab (L) and clinical (C) components of each NURS course must be successfully completed during the same semester. All component co-requisites must be repeated if a failing grade is received in any one of them.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 334, NURS 334L and NURS 334C
Corequisite(s): NURS 370L
Course Learning Outcomes:
1. Reflect critically, at the accomplished level, on their actions, decisions, and internalized accountability.
2. Employ the clinical judgment model, at the accomplished level to plan, implement, and evaluate safe, person-centered nursing care that meets the basic human needs and promotes health of neonates, prenatal, and postpartum women and their families.
3. Relate pathophysiological concepts and diagnostic test results for normal and abnormal intrapartum health alterations with their clinical manifestations and nursing interventions used to deliver safe, person-centered care for the childbearing family.
4. Examine the coordination of person-centered nursing care for the childbearing family in collaboration with the interprofessional healthcare team.
5. Perform increasingly complex psychomotor and health assessment skills, adapted to the client’s developmental stage, according to current professional practice standards.
6. Demonstrate accomplished verbal, written, and electronic communication skills with clients, families, and the interprofessional team that promote collaboration, quality, safety, and a caring relationship, for optimal outcomes.
7. Use information and communication technology to support clinical decision making, prevent error, and promote quality improvement.

Clinical Competency Statement:

At the conclusion of 355C, students will demonstrate accomplished clinical judgment, as measured by Lasaters Clinical Judgment Rubric LCJR, in the provision of safe, person-centered care to intrapartum clients and their families with basic to complex healthcare alterations.