2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

NRSG 332 The Childbearing Family

The course focuses on the family who is experiencing the normal human phenomenon of childbirth. The content areas of the course consist of nursing needs and care during the antepartum period, labor and delivery, the postpartum period, and for the normal newborn and the high risk newborn. The reproductive health of women throughout the life span is presented. Nursing care approaches incorporate prior learning in the biopsychosocial sciences through the application of the nursing process to the childbearing family. Learning experiences in a variety of settings provide an opportunity to develop knowledge in preventive, supportive, and therapeutic nursing care of clients in the childbearing cycle. 

Credits

5

Prerequisites

NRSG 205; NRSG 206; NRSG 210; all supportive courses

Corequisites

NRSG 331

Offered

Fall

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Relate the dynamics of family life, culture, and society to the health status of the childbearing family.
  2. Utilize concepts, principles, and evidence-based literature from nursing and supportive disciplines as a theoretical basis for the nursing care of individuals/families experiencing the childbearing cycle.
  3. Apply the nursing process to the normal events of the childbearing cycle:
  4. Serve as an accountable, contributing health team member in the delivery of nursing care for the childbearing family.
  5. Develop professional perspectives of the nursing role as they relate to the childbearing family.
  6. Apply the nursing process to the normal and abnormal events of the reproductive cycle.
  7. Collaborate with health care professionals/clients in the planning of health care.