2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

NUR 123 Family Concepts in Nursing

This course is designed to offer the student the opportunity to utilize the nursing process caring for families during the childbearing and the child-rearing years through adolescence. Course content will focus on common, acute, chronic, and complex healthcare concerns for the population. Throughout the course, issues of legal, ethical, and professional accountability will be addressed as they pertain to the care of the maternal newborn and pediatric population. Concepts of nutrition, pharmacology, evidence-based practice, safety, and population nursing trends are integrated throughout the course. Clinical experiences will be conducted in acute/subacute care settings.

4 credit hours (45 hours theory, 42 hours clinical)

Credits

4

Prerequisite

NUR 101, NUR 120

Corequisite

NUR 124; must be taken either prior to or at the same time as this course: PS 251