Chapter 1: Teaching & Learning

• Identify client learning needs and potential barriers
• Contribute to a teaching plan
• Choose the appropriate teaching method
• Apply principles of teaching and learning
• Determine if learning was achieved

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Chapter 2: Healthy Lifestyle

• Determine elements of a healthy lifestyle
• Identify health screening guidelines and adult immunizations
• Provide education to promote risk reduction
• Explain the behavior change process related to the client
• Differentiate between primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention
• Identify factors influencing a client’s individual choices, such as culture, values, and religion
• Differentiate between promoting health and preventing illness
• Describe community services that can assist patients in meeting health needs

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Chapter 3: Healthy Diets

• Identify assessment components of the client’s current diet
• Identify current recommendations regarding diet for the client according to developmental needs
• Adapt recommendations based on individual patient health conditions
• Identify different food groups and food sources for vitamins and minerals
• Identify factors influencing client’s individual choices, such as culture, values, and religion
• Use food safety guidelines to prevent contamination and food-borne illnesses

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Chapter 4: Family Dynamics

• Identify family roles, structure, and functions
• Examine family dynamics
• Identify various factors that can lead to actual and potential family health problems
• Compare and contrast parenting styles and behaviors
• Consider the influence of family cultural practices related to health
• Identify the psychosocial effect of illness on a client and their family’s health
• Apply the nursing process to caring for a client in the context of the family

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Chapter 5: Mental Health Concepts

• Promote healthy coping strategies
• Differentiate between adaptive and maladaptive behaviors
• Identify defense mechanisms
• Identify legal and ethical obligations related to notification and documentation
• Describe mental health and mental illness
• Outline cultural considerations related to caring for clients with mental illness
• Describe trauma-informed care
• Identify signs and symptoms of acute and chronic stress
• Teach stress management techniques
• Recognize a client in crisis and describe crisis intervention

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Chapter 6: Maladaptive Coping Behaviors

• Describe maladaptive coping
• Identify cues associated with domestic, child, and elder abuse
• Analyze cues of recurring cycle of violence
• Analyze clinical manifestations of substance use disorders
• Describe recommended pharmacological and nonpharmacological therapeutic interventions
• Identify legal and ethical obligations related to notification and documentation
• List appropriate interventions for victims of family violence

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Chapter 7: Mental Health Conditions

• Analyze clinical manifestations of anxiety, mood, psychotic, neurodevelopmental, and impulse control disorders in the client and family
• Describe recommended pharmacological and nonpharmacological therapeutic interventions
• Promote healthy coping strategies

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Chapter 8: Reproductive Concepts

• Identify reproductive issues such as contraception, normal reproduction, reproductive screening, STIs, and fertility
• Identify healthy male and female sexual development across the life span
• Determine teaching concepts related to reproductive issues, including identification of community resources
• Identify factors influencing client’s individual choices, such as culture, values, and religion
• Identify gender and sexuality concepts, such as identity, expression, and attraction

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Chapter 9: Antepartum Care

• Identify appropriate nursing and medical care throughout pregnancy
• Identify pregnancy complications and related nursing interventions
• Determine teaching concepts related to pregnancy, including identification of community resources
• Describe pharmacological and nonpharmacological therapeutic interventions used in pregnancy
• Determine prenatal assessment data for a healthy pregnant client, including labs and diagnostics
• Identify factors influencing client’s individual choices, such as culture, values, and religion

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Chapter 10: Labor & Delivery Care

• Identify factors influencing the client’s individual choices during labor such as culture, values, religion, and birth plan
• Identify appropriate nursing and medical care throughout labor and delivery
• Determine assessment data for a healthy labor and delivery, including labs and diagnostics
• Describe pharmacological and nonpharmacological therapeutic interventions used during labor and delivery
• Determine teaching concepts related to labor and delivery, including identification of community resources
• Identify common labor and delivery complications and related nursing interventions

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Chapter 11: Postpartum Care

• Identify appropriate nursing and medical care for the postpartum client
• Identify common postpartum complications and related nursing interventions
• Determine teaching concepts related to postpartum care, including identification of community resources
• Describe pharmacological and nonpharmacological therapeutic interventions used with the postpartum client
• Determine assessment data for a healthy postpartum client, including labs and diagnostics
• Identify factors influencing client’s individual choices, such as culture, values, and religion

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Chapter 12: Healthy Newborn Care

• Apply concepts of physical and psychosocial needs pertaining to a healthy newborn
• Identify appropriate nursing and medical care for the healthy newborn
• Identify common complications of a healthy newborn and related nursing interventions
• Determine teaching concepts related to newborn care, including identification of community resources
• Describe pharmacological and nonpharmacological therapeutic interventions used with the newborn client
• Determine assessment data for a healthy newborn client, including labs and diagnostics
• Identify factors influencing a family’s individual choices regarding newborn care, such as culture, values, and religion

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Chapter 13: Nursing Care for Infancy Through Adolescence

• Describe common theories of development
• Identify the unique needs of the child’s stage of development
• Identify common complications of a developing child and related nursing interventions
• Identify appropriate nursing and medical care for the developing child, including health promotion activities
• Adapt interventions appropriate to the development level of the child and family
• Identify recommended childhood immunizations
• Promote safety and accident prevention
• Explore community resources for the care of children

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Chapter 14: Planning Care For The Ill Child

• Identify effects of illness and hospitalization on the child and family
• Identify interventions that minimize stress of illness and hospitalization for the child and family
• Identify factors influencing the client’s individual choices, such as culture, values, and religion
• Describe the role of the nurse in caring for ill or hospitalized pediatric clients
• Explain considerations when assessing a pediatric client

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Chapter 15: Childhood Respiratory Disorders

• Identify appropriate nursing and medical care for common childhood illnesses that affect the respiratory system
• Determine teaching concepts related to the ill child with a respiratory illness

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Chapter 16: Other Childhood Disorders

• Identify appropriate nursing and medical care for common childhood illnesses
• Determine teaching concepts related to the ill child

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Chapter 17: Congenital Heart Defects

• Outline the normal shunts in fetal circulation (ductus venosus, foramen ovale and ductus arteriosus) and the transition to neonatal circulation after birth
• Describe common congenital heart defects and potential complications
• Differentiate the manifestations of cyanotic and acyanotic disorders
• Integrate nursing care for infants and children with congenital heart defects
• Explore medical and surgical treatments for congenital heart defects
• Outline priority teaching topics for parents and caregivers of children with congenital heart defects

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Chapter 18: Reproductive System Alterations

• Integrate principles of evidence-based practice when using the nursing process to care for clients with reproductive system alterations
• Correlate the pathophysiology, etiology, and clinical manifestations with reproductive system alterations
• Incorporate screening, diagnostic, and treatment procedures in the nursing plan of care
• Plan nutritional interventions for clients
• Identify multidisciplinary and community resources to promote care of clients
• Integrate pharmacological therapy in the care of clients
• Develop teaching and learning plans
• Support diversity across the life span in client-centered care
• Integrate psychosocial support in the care of clients

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Chapter 19: High-Risk Perinatal Client Care

• Integrate principles of evidence-based practice when using the nursing process for the high-risk perinatal client
• Correlate the pathophysiology, etiology, and clinical manifestations of high-risk perinatal conditions
• Incorporate screening, diagnostic, and treatment procedures in the nursing plan of care for the high-risk perinatal client
• Plan nutritional interventions for high-risk perinatal clients
• Identify multidisciplinary and community resources to promote care of high-risk perinatal clients
• Integrate pharmacological therapy in the care of high-risk perinatal clients
• Provide health teaching to high-risk perinatal client
• Support diversity across the life span in client-centered care
• Integrate psychosocial support in the care of high-risk perinatal clients

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Chapter 20: High-Risk Newborn Care

• Integrate principles of evidence-based practice when using the nursing process
• Correlate the pathophysiology, etiology, and clinical manifestations
• Incorporate screening, diagnostic, and treatment procedures in the nursing plan of care
• Plan nutritional interventions for clients
• Identify multidisciplinary and community resources to promote care of clients
• Integrate pharmacological therapy in the care of clients
• Develop teaching and learning plans
• Support diversity across the life span in client-centered care
• Integrate psychosocial support in the care of clients

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