Framework Of Maternal and Child Nursing Flashcards
major focus of nursing practice
childbearing and childrearing families
- childbearing= process of giving birth
- childrearing= bringing up child
primary goal of both maternal and child health nursing
promotion and maintenance of optimal family health.
Examples of the scope of practice (5)
✅Preconception health care
✅ Care of women during three trimesters of pregnancy and the puerperium
1st trimester= 1st to 3rd month
2nd trimester= 4th to 6th month
3rd trimester= 7th to 9th month
✨ the 6 weeks after 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 [28 days] after birth
✅Care of children from birth through late adolescent
✅ Care in a variety of hospital and home care settings
FOUR PHASES OF HEALTH CARE
- Health promotion
- Health maintenance
- Health restoration
- Health rehabilitation
➜Educating parents and children to follow sound health practices through teaching and role modeling
1.Health promotion
➜Intervening to maintain health when risk of illness is present
2.Health maintenance
➜Using conscientious assessment to be certain that symptoms of illness are identified and interventions are begun to return patient to wellness most rapidly
- Health restoration
➜ Helping prevent complications from illness; helping a patient with residual effects achieve an optimal state of wellness and independence; helping a patient to accept inevitable death
Health rehabilitation
Encouraging a woman with gestational trophoblastic disease (abnormal placenta growth) to continue therapy
Health rehabilitation
child with a renal transplant tocontinue to take necessary medications
Health rehabilitation
Encouraging women to be partners in prenatal care; teaching parents the importance of safeguarding their home by childproofing against poisoning
2.Health maintenance
➜Example: Caring for a woman during a complication of pregnancy such as gestational diabetes or a child during an acute illness such as pneumonia
- Health restoration
➜Example: Teaching women the importance of rubella immunization before pregnancy; providing preteens with information about safer sex practices well before they are likely to become sexually active.
1.Health promotion
eight anti-poverty targets had been set to be achieved by 2015
MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENTAL GOALS (MDGs)
8 MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENTAL GOALS
- Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty
- Achieve universal primary education
- Promote gender equality and empower women
- Reduce child mortality
- Improve mental health
- Combat HIV or AIDS, malaria and other diseases 7. Ensure environmental sustainability
- Develop a global partnership for development
