The course will provide didactic and clinical experiences to accelerated BSN students. This course is designed to provide classroom and clinical experiences to enable the student to provide continuity of nursing care for children and their families when children and adolescents experience a variety of health problems. Topics such as childhood asthma, bronchiolitis, diabetes, congenital heart defects, multiple childhood cancers, anemias, meningitis, cognitive disorders, and pediatric abusive head trauma will be covered. Students will learn about these and many more disorders in the classroom and then execute caring for children with acute and chronic health disorders in the clinical setting. Clinical will focus on teaching the student application of classroom topics, critical thinking, developmentally appropriate nursing care for children of various ages, family centered care, and time management.