Combining Peds and Women's Health Courses

[Penguin67]

I am a faculty member. who works in a nursing program where we recently voted to combine the peds and women's health courses. I would greatly appreciate some student input regarding how to sequence lectures. Our faculty is greatly divided regarding how to proceed with this, so student input would be so helpful.

If you would like to respond to this post, please indicate which of the three approaches you would like for this course content. And any additional comments that you have would be nice to add, if you'd like.

1. Proceed "sequentially" with content. Go from prenatal to l/d to postpartum to newborn, and then head into pediatric content. Faculty from the specialty areas would deliver lectures from their specialty (peds or OB).

2. In a 4 hour lecture, take the first two hours and do peds, then follow it with 2 hours of OB (or vice versa). This would give content each week in each area, so that clinicals would be meaningful. Specialty faculty lecture in their areas.

3. Mix the content into areas of commonalities, and include peds and ob in each. EX: assessment would include assessment of the prenatal, l/d, postpartum, newborn, and child.Two faculty would be present in each lecture, one from peds and one from OB, to provide content from their area of specialization.

Your student feedback would be ao appreciated! Thanks in advance for your assistance!

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[~FutureNurse~]

If it were me, I would definitley want to go from beginning to end. I think mixing everything up would be kind of confusing. Just my opinion.

Thanks.

[celclt]

same here- following a human growth & development type track....hth!

[love for nursing]

I agree go in sequence.