PVN150 : H: Maternal & Child Health Nursing Care

This course emphasizes common disease processes, treatments, and pharmacological agents used for female reproductive disorders. Students study the childbearing process from pregnancy through postpartum period. Content reviews normal pregnancy and stresses the high-risk client within each phase of pregnancy. Students are provided with the knowledge necessary to use the nursing process in the care of female clients with reproductive system disorders, normal pregnancy, and high-risk pregnancy. Common childhood diseases and disorders, treatments, pharmacological agents are covered as well as the use of the nursing process in the care of the ill child from infancy through adolescence.