Recent ProfessorsNot yet assignedRecent SemestersNo scheduled sections on recordClass SizeNot publishedCredits5.5PrerequisiteNURS210 - Fundamentals of Nursing Or equivalent AND Prerequisite NURS205 - Drug Dosage Calculations for Nursing Students AND Prerequisite NURS211 - Developing Competency in Nursing Practice (A) Or equivalent AND Prerequisite NURS212 - Pharmacology for Nurses AND Co-Requisite NURS231 - Competency in Nursing Practice (A) AND Prerequisite Admission into the Nursing program AND Advisory This course is for a special category of student, for example, a foriegn trained nurse who is required by the Board of Registered Nursing to take maternity nursing, or a transfer student. OR Prerequisite Prerequisite for foreign trained nurses: NURS- 205, NURS- 212 and admission into the Nursing program. Transfers ToNot transferableDescriptionThis course provides entry level knowledge to periobstetrical and perinatal nursing. The course encompasses the entire childbearing process from preconception planning through pregnancy, birth and the post-partum period. Content progresses from normal to at-risk information and cultural aspects within each phase; pregnancy, labor and birth, care of the newborn, and the post-partum period. Theory is concurrent with clinical experience. 