Family-Centered Nursing Care

This course focuses on nursing care of the family unit and its individual members in selective phases of the human life cycle. Specific concepts of health and illness of these individuals form the basis of planning and implementing culturally diverse age appropriate nursing care. The nurse develops this care through the use of the nursing process, critical thinking, and clinical decision making and evidence-based practices in family-centered nursing care. Instructional methodologies include patient-centered clinical experiences and structured classroom student-teacher interactions.