NURSE 388 - Labor and Delivery Nursing Care - Transition into Practice

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    Credits
    3
    Prerequisite
    None.
    Transfers To
    CSU
    Description
    This course provides a review of labor and delivery nursing care principles to those nurses who wish to cross train or orient into labor and delivery and receive a refresher course. Coursework includes overview of labor and delivery nursing content, such as reproductive health, preconception and inter- conception health; physiologic and psychosocial adaptation to pregnancy, process of labor and delivery (normal and complications), Cesarean birth and post anesthesia care unit, complications of pregnancy and delivery, perinatal infections, postpartum and newborn assessment and care, neonatal complications, perinatal loss and perinatal safety and risk management. The didactic portion (36 lecture hours) is designed to be taken concurrently with the hospital training (54 lab hours) in the labor and delivery unit. This course is graded as Pass / No Pass.