Broward College
Department of Nursing
Course Outline
COMMON COURSE NUMBER: NUR 1310
COURSE TITLE: PEDIATRIC NURSING
PREREQUISITE(S): NUR 1220, NUR 1220L
COREQUISITE(S): NUR 1310L or NUR 1304L
CREDIT HOURS: 3 CREDITS
HOUR BREAKDOWN:
Lecture/Discussion: 48
Laboratory: 0
Other ___________: 0
CONTACT HOURS/WEEK: 6
CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This pediatric course is designed to provide an understanding of growth and development through the stages of
childhood and the application of the nursing process to these stages.
UNIT TITLES:
1.0 Historical, Cultural, and Contextual Trends Related to Pediatric Nursing
2.0 Growth and Development
3.0 Assessment of the Pediatric Patient and Family
4.0 Health Promotion of the Pediatric Patient and Family
5.0 Child Maltreatment
6.0 Care Of the Pediatric Patient with Congenital Heart Defects
7.0 Care Of the Pediatric Patient with Hematological, Immunological, and Endocrine Disorders
8.0 Care Of the Pediatric Patient with Respiratory Disorders
9.0 Care Of the Pediatric Patient with Neurological Disorders
10.0 Care Of the Pediatric Patient with Cognitive Impairment
11.0 Care Of the Pediatric Patient with Gastrointestinal Disorders
12.0 Care Of the Pediatric Patient with Genitourinary Disorders
13.0 Care Of the Pediatric Patient with Musculoskeletal Disorders
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Graduate Outcomes:
Human Flourishing: Advocate for patients and families in ways that
promote their self-determination, integrity, and ongoing growth as human
beings.
Nursing Judgment: Make judgments in practice, substantiated with
evidence, that integrate nursing science in the provision of safe, quality
care and promote the health of patients within a family and community
context.
Professional Identity: Implement one’s role as a nurse in ways that
reflect integrity, responsibility, ethical practices, and an evolving identity
as a nurse committed to evidence-based practice, caring, advocacy, and
safe, quality care for diverse patients within a family and community
context.
Spirit of Inquiry: Examine the evidence that underlies clinical nursing
practice to challenge the status quo, question underlying assumptions, and
offer new insights to improve the quality of care for patients, families, and
communities. (NLN, p. 38)
Summary of Integrating Concepts: (See appendix for complete description)
A. Context and Environment, in relation to organizations, refers to the
conditions or social system within which the organization’s members act to
achieve specific goals. Context and environment is a product of the
organization’s human resources, and also the policies, procedures, rewards,
leadership, supervision, and other attributes that influence interpersonal
interactions. In health care, context and environment encompass
organizational structure, leadership styles, patient characteristics, safety
climate, ethical climate, teamwork, continuous quality improvement, and
effectiveness. (NLN, p. 16-17)
B. Knowledge and Science refer to the foundations that serve as a basis for
nursing practice, which, in turn, deepen, extend, and help generate new
knowledge and new theories that continue to build the science and further
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, the practice. These foundations include (a) understanding and integrating
knowledge from a variety of disciplines outside nursing that provide
insight into the physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and cultural
functioning of human beings; (b) understanding and integrating
knowledge from nursing science to design and implement plans of
patientcentered care for individuals, families, and communities; (c)
understanding how knowledge and science develop; (d) understanding
how all members of a discipline have responsibility for contributing to the
development of that discipline’s evolving science; and (e) understanding
the nature of evidence-based practice. (NLN, p. 20-21)
C. Personal/Professional Development is a lifelong process of learning,
refining, and integrating values and behaviors that (a) are consistent with
the profession’s history, goals, and codes of ethics; (b) serve to distinguish
the practice of nurses from that of other health care providers; and (c) give
nurses the courage needed to continually improve the care of patients,
families, and communities and to ensure the profession’s ongoing viability.
(NLN, p. 23)
D. Quality and Safety is the degree to which health care services 1) are
provided in a way consistent with current professional knowledge; 2)
minimize the risk of harm to individuals, populations, and providers; 3)
increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes; and 4) are
operationalized from an individual, unit, and systems perspective. (NLN,
p. 25)
E. Relationship-Centered Care positions (a) caring; (b) therapeutic
relationships with patients, families, and communities; and (c) professional
relationships with members of the health care team at the core of nursing
practice. It integrates and reflects respect for the dignity and uniqueness of
others, valuing diversity, integrity, humility, mutual trust, self-
determination, empathy, civility, the capacity for grace, and
empowerment. (NLN, p. 27)
F. Teamwork means to function effectively within nursing and
interprofessional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect,
and shared decision making to achieve quality patient care. (NLN, p. 30)
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Human Flourishing:
Discover interventions to defend patients and
families to promote their self-determination, X X X X X X
integrity, and ongoing growth as human beings.
Nursing Judgment:
Examine judgments in practice, substantiated
with evidence, that integrate nursing science in
the provision of safe, quality care and promote X X X X X X
the health of patients within a family and
community context.
Professional Identity:
Implement one’s role as a second-level nursing
student in ways that reflect integrity,
responsibility, ethical practices, and an
developing identity as a nurse committed to X X X X X X
evidence-based practice, caring, advocacy, and
safe, quality care for diverse patients within a
family and community context.
Spirit of Inquiry:
Interpret the evidence that underlies clinical
X X X X X X
nursing practice and how it may challenge the
status quo, question underlying assumptions, and
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