NURS 317

This course takes a strengths-based approach to caring for birthing persons and families of diverse and multicultural backgrounds. Emphasis is placed on the integration and application of evidence-based theory, standards for nursing practice, effective communication, critical thinking, and use of the nursing process to optimally prepare nurses as caregivers for, and collaborators with, birthing persons, neonates, families, and the health care team. Students must be registered in NURS 328-(1, 2) in order to participate in a Year 3 combined theory and practice course.