NAD 200 - Nursing 3

Credit(s): 8
Lecture Hours: 5
Lab Hours: 8.5

This course will focus on the care of individual adult patients and families with selected complex medical/surgical health alterations and childbearing women and newborns. Students will continue to expand their theoretical knowledge, use of the nursing process, and nursing skills as well as critical thinking and decision-making ability to delegate and prioritize nursing care. Emphasis is placed on reproduction and prenatal period, normal and high-risk pregnancies during the intra-partum and postpartum periods, high risk conditions of infant and newborn assessment, family dynamics and the promotion of healthy behaviors in patients. Emphasis will also be placed on the care of patients and families with health alterations in neurosensory and cardiac and vascular problems. Concepts of patient-centered care, quality improvement, informatics, evidence-based practice, safety, teamwork and collaboration, leadership and professionalism are integrated throughout the course. Learning experiences are provided in the classroom, audio-visual tutorials, skills lab, simulation and clinical settings. Students will provide care for individual adult patients and families with complex medical/surgical health alterations and childbearing families in acute care, outpatient, community and/or long term care and rehabilitation settings. Satisfactory (S) performance in clinical and skills lab and a minimum grade of C in theory are required in order to pass the course.
Applicable toward graduation at Sandburg where program structure permits:
Degree or Certificate: AAS, AGS, and Certificates where applicable. (1.2)

Offered: Fall
Prerequisite(s): NAD 125, NAD 130, BIO 212, BIO 200, and if applicable, NAD 180. All prerequisites must be passed with a “C” or better in order to progress in the program. Take NAD 205 with a minimum grade of “C”. All corequisites must be passed with a “C” or better in order to progress in the program.
General Education: Not Applicable