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Apr 06, 2026
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NURS 410 - Nursing Care of the Childbearing Family
Units: 2
This course focuses on developing the knowledge needed to perform holistic, evidence-based specialized assessments for birthing families, and then using the data to plan, implement and communicate appropriate interventions to realize optimal health for all members of the family unit.
Prerequisites: B.S. Nursing major and all of: HDEV 380, NURS 320, NURS 323, NURS 321, NURS 325, NURS 328, NURS 329, NURS 326.
Co-requisites: NURS 411.
Possible Instructional Methods: Hybrid.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Demonstrate the nursing role in assessing, planning, intervening, and evaluating safe care of the childbearing family
- Analyze the adaptations that a person undergoes to progress through the pregnancy, birth and postpartum periods and the concomitant nursing interventions in each stage
- Apply knowledge of fetal growth and development, and the transition to extrauterine life to nursing care of the childbearing family
- Demonstrate evidence-based nursing interventions to address complications for the pregnant person, developing fetus, and newborn
- Promote system-based improvements to reduce the impact of social determinants of health on the childbearing family
- Evaluate how the historic centering of Western, White-identified, heteronormative and industrialized values, preferences, and practices has influenced birthing communities
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