Infant, Child and Adolescent Health and Illness

This nursing care course focuses on infants', children's, and adolescents' health and illness within the context of their families and relevant environments. It includes didactic and clinical practicum components. Students will be challenged to think and respond critically and comprehensively regarding a variety of infant, child, and adolescent health and illness situations from health promotion through end of life care. Course content will build on foundational knowledge from the basic and social sciences, humanities, and previous clinical courses. Students will integrate physical/emotional/cognitive growth and development, pharmacodynamic, sociocultural, personal, communication and nutritional differences in order to assess and analyze data, develop nursing care strategies and evaluate outcomes regarding a variety of health and illness situations throughout infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Along with this, students will examine the influences they themselves exert on infants, children, adolescents, and their families when providing health and illness care. Students will also examine the impact of, and respond effectively to, the health care system and personnel, including legal, ethical, and advanced informational and monitoring technologies when delivering health and illness care to infants, children, and adolescents.