FRAMEWORK FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH NURSING Flashcards
What is the primary goal of Maternal and Child Health Nursing?
Promotion and maintenance of optimal family health to ensure cycles of optimal childbearing and childrearing.
What is considered as the primary unit of care?
Family
It is family centered, community centered, and research oriented.
MCHN (Maternal and Child Health Nursing)
These provide a foundation for nursing care.
Both nursing theory and evidence-based practice
Who serves as an advocate to protect the rights of all family members, including the fetus?
MCH (Maternal and Child Health) Nurse
Promoting health is an important nursing role. TRUE OR FALSE?
True
MCHN includes a high degree of independent nursing functions. TRUE OR FALSE?
True
Personal, cultural, and religious attitudes and beliefs influence the meaning of illness and its impact on the family. TRUE OR FALSE?
True
It is the basic unit of society.
Family
Children grow both individually and as part of a family. TRUE OR FALSE?
True
Families represent racial, ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic diversity. TRUE OR FALSE?
True
Nursing Interventions to ensure family-centered maternal and child health care include considering the family as a whole as well as its individual members. TRUE OR FALSE?
True
Nursing Interventions to ensure family-centered maternal and child health care include encouraging families to reach out to their community. TRUE OR FALSE?
True
Nursing Interventions to ensure family-centered maternal and child health care include encouraging family bonding through rooming-in and participating in early hospital
discharge programs. TRUE OR FALSE?
True
Nursing Interventions to ensure family-centered maternal and child health care include encouraging family and sibling visits in the hospital, assessing families for strengths as well as specific needs or challenges, and respecting diversity in families. TRUE OR FALSE?
True
Nursing Interventions to ensure family-centered maternal and child health care include encouraging families to give care to a newborn or ill child. TRUE OR FALSE?
True
Nursing Interventions to ensure family-centered maternal and child health care include developmental stimulation in nursing
care. TRUE OR FALSE?
True
Nursing Interventions to ensure family-centered maternal and child health care include sharing or initiating information on health planning with family members. TRUE OR FALSE?
True
What are the Two (2) National Main Health Goals?
- To increase quality and years of healthy life.
- To eliminate health disparities.