Study of the concepts related to the provision of nursing care for childbearing and childrearing families; application of systematic problem-solving processes and critical thinking skills, including a focus on the childbearing family during preconception, prenatal, antepartum, neonatal, and postpartum periods and the childrearing family from birth to adolescence; and competency in knowledge, judgment, skill, and professional values within a legal/ethical framework.

BIOL 2301, 2101; 2302, 2102; 2320, 2120; and 1322; PSYC 2301 and 2314; AHA/BLS-HCP; RNSG 1413 and 1360.

Corequisites: ENGL 1301; RNSG 1431, and 1460.