What is the primary goal of maternal and child health nursing?
the promotion and maintenance of optimal family health to ensure cycles of optimal childbea... [Show More] ring and childrearing
What are some examples of maternal and child health practice?
preconceptual health care
Care of women during three trimesters of pregnancy and the puerperium ( 6 weeks afteter childbirth, sometimes termed the fourth trimester of pregnancy)
care of infants during the perinatal period (the time span beginning at 20 weeks of pregnancy to 4 weeks after birth)
Care of children from both through young adulthood
care in settings as diverse as birthing room, a pedatric intensive care unit or the home
What is the childbearing-childrearing continuum?
provision of preconceptual health care- care recieve before pregnancy- can be expensive, not covered until pregnant, having fertlitily issues, pay for ferltility
provision of nursing care of women throughout pregancy, birth, and postpartum- so many prenatal visits, labor and birth, 48 hour postpartum period
Provision of nursing care of children from birth-adolesence- find a provider for the baby and child- take care from birth throughout adolescence
Provision of nursing care to families in all settings- care to all patients no matter setting, home, clinic, hospital (all posibilities)
What does the philosophy of maternal and child health nursing include?
family centered- take whole family into account-provide care to entire family, what's bringing them all in
Community centered-public health and marry it with child health- much of public health is taking care of mom and baby
Evidence based- conscientious, explicity, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of patients. Can be a combination of research, clinical expertise, and patient preferences or values- what gives merit to make sure it is correct
What are the two pillars of the 2020 National Health Goals?
Increase quality and years of healthy life
Eliminate health disparities
What do the new objectives recommend as part of Healthy 2020?
That all prelicensure programs in nursing include core content on:
counseling for health promotion and disease prevention
Cultural diversity
Evaluation of health sciences literature
Enviornmental health
Public health nursing
Global health
What are the Global Health Goals of 2020?
End poverty and hunger
achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Combat HIV/AIDs, malaria, and other diseases
Ensure enviornmental sustainability
Develop a global partnership for development
Health promotion
educating parents and children to follow health practices through teaching and role modeling
ex. teaching women the importance of rubella immunization before pregnancy; teaching adolescents the importance of safer sex practices
Health maintenance
intervening to maintain health when risk of illness is present
ex. encouraging women to be partners in prenatal care; teaching parents the importance of safe-gaurding their home by childproofing against poisoning
Health restoration
using conscietious assessment to be certain that symptoms of illness are identified and interventions are begun to return client to wellness most rapidly
ex. Caring for a woman during a complication of pregnancy such as gestational diabetes or a child during an acute illness such as pneumonia
Health rehabilitation
helping prevent complications from illness; helping a client with residual effects achieve an optimal state of wellness and independence; helping a client to accept inevitalble death
ex. encouraging a woman with gestational trophoblastic disease (abnormal placenta growth) to continue therapy or a child with a renal transplant to continue to take necessary medications
What is the nursing process?
scientific form of problem solving, serves as the basis for assessing, making a nursing diagnosis, planning, implementing and evaluating care. Process broad enough to serve as the basis for modern nursing care because it is applicalbe to all health care settings, from the home to ambulatory clinics to intensive care units.
Assess
gather information about the patient's condition
Diagnose
Identify the patient's problems
Plan
set goals of care and designed outcomes and identify appropriate nursing actions
Implement
perform the nursing actions identified in planning
Evaluate
determine if the goals and expected outcomes are achieved
QSEN (Quality and safety education for nurses)
patient-centerd care
teamwork & collaboration
Evidence-based practice
Quality improvement
Safety
Informatics
What is the overall goal of QSEN?
address the challenge of preparing future nurses with the abilities necessary to continoulsy improve the quality and safety of the health care systems in which they work.
Patient-Centered Care
the patient is thought of as the source of control and full parnter in the provison of compasionate and coorinated care based on respect for the patient's preferences, values and needs
Teamwork & Collaboration
Nurses function effectively within nursing and interprofessional teams, fostering open communication, mutual repsect and shared decsion making as they achieve quality patient care
Evidence-based practice
nurses integrate the best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of [Show Less]
