Theory Management Childbearing/Childrearing family

Course Description

This course is designed to provide the family nurse practitioner student with the necessary knowledge to diagnose and manage the childbearing/childrearing families with common health problems, including acute episodic illness. Emphasis is placed on assisting the childrearing families to reach or maintain the highest level of health and functioning, with a focus on health promotion, health maintenance, and primary care management of common health problems. This includes the care of children from birth through adolescence.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to apply a normal process related to birth and physiology, a systematic approach to the diagnosis and management of complex health problems in childbearing women, infants, children, and adolescents. At the completion of the course, the student will be able to:

1. Demonstrate the ability to take and analyze environmental, historical, psychosocial, physical,and diagnostic findings in order to arrive at a differential diagnosis.

2. Develop and evaluate a plan of care that takes into consideration the biophysical, psychosocial, and cultural demands of the individual patient and family.

3. Identify safe, ethical, culturally aware, evidence-based care for patients who have acute, chronic, and complex illness in order to integrate theoretical knowledge of current evidence-based medicine and interventions into practice.

4. Determine interventions that optimize health, minimize harm, and enhance quality of life while promoting patient self-determination.

5. Delineate the role of the family nurse practitioner in illness management specific to the patient, family, and community.

6. Determine appropriate interprofessional collaboration, utilizing community resources and specialists in order to optimize the health and wellness of the patient and family.