High Risk Families Across the Lifespan

This course focuses on the role of the professional nurse in the provision of holistic health promotion and preventive care to the highly complex person and the family during the entire life span in a variety of settings. Where wellness cannot be achieved, the goal of nursing activities is to maximize integrity through death as a growth phase of the life process. The course continues to explore the roles and functions that enable the professional nurse to exercise leadership in initiating change in multi-cultural health/nursing care sytems. Health promotion protection; physical and mental alterations throughout the life process; family psychodynamics and political, social, environmental and ethical/legal issues will be highlighted.

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