ADN 210 - Family Health Illness Concepts

Credits: 7
Contact Hours: 13

Prerequisites: ADN 130 (B- or Higher) and ADN 135 (B- or Higher) and ADN 140 (B- or Higher)

Corequisites: ADN 215 and PY 232

College Level Prerequisites: None

Description: This course is designed to further develop individual, health & illness, and professional nursing & health care concepts with emphasis on the family, as well as individual clients including the infant, child, and childbearing client. Individual concepts include functional ability and culture. Health & illness concepts include intracranial regulation, nutrition, perfusion, gas exchange, reproduction, sexuality, immunity, infection, pain, stress & coping, mood & affect, psychosis, and interpersonal violence. Professional nursing & health care concepts include professional identity, clinical judgment, health promotion, communication, collaboration, safety and health care policy. Upon completion, students should be able to provide safe nursing care to the infant, child, and childbearing client while incorporating the concepts identified in this course. This course includes a clinical component.

Department Consent: Department Consent

General Education Distribution Category Met: None