Module 01: Introduction to Maternal and Child Health Nursing Flashcards
This can be visualized within the framework in which nurses, using the nursing process, nursing theories, and evidence-based practice care for families during childbearing and childbearing years through.
Maternal and child health nursing
What are the phases of healthcare?
(1) Health Promotion
(2) Health Maintenance
(3) Health Restoration
(4) Health Rehabilitation
This phase of healthcare pertains to the act of educating the patients to be aware of good health through teaching and role modeling.
Health promotion
How is health promotion procured?
The prevention of illness is executed through the promotion of a healthy lifestyle that can be manifested by teach proper hygiene, safe sex, etc.
This phase of healthcare pertains to the act of intervening to maintain health when health illness is present.
Health maintenance (characterized as not yet at a hospital setting; mostly home setting)
How is illness characterized?
Illness can also be a state of mental health and not strictly physical health alone.
This phase of healthcare is the act of diagnosing and treating illness that will return the patient to a wellness level.
Health Restoration (characterized to be in the hospital setting with objective findings based on diagnosis)
When is health restoration executed by the nurse?
When the patient is already seeking help
This phase of healthcare pertains to the act of preventing further complications from an illness and bringing the patient back to an optimal state of wellness.
Health Rehabilitation
This phase of healthcare is often found in palliative care because it intends to help the patient accept inevitable death.
Health Rehabilitation.
What is the nurse’s role based on maternal and child health nursing care?
This focuses on promoting healthy growth and development of the child and the family in both health and illness (Nearns, 2009).
What is the range of practice of the nurse in maternal and child health nursing care?
(1) Pre conceptual healthcare
(2) Care of women during three trimesters of pregnancy and the puerperium (the 6 weeks after childbirth, sometimes termed the fourth trimester of pregnancy)
This is defined as the phase of 6 weeks after childbirth, sometimes termed the fourth trimester of pregnancy.
Puerperium
This study pertains to the care of women during childbirth and is derived from the Greek word obstare, which means “to keep watch.”
Obstetrics
The word obstetrics is derived from what?
The Greek word obstare, which means “to keep watch.”
The word pediatrics is derived from what?
The Greek word pais, which means “child.”
This goal and philosophy of nursing under maternal and child health nursing care pertains to the stages of pregnancy, birth and the early nursing period.
Child Bearing
This goal and philosophy of nursing under maternal and child health nursing care pertains to the stages of bringing up and taking care of children.
Child Rearing
What is the goal of child bearing and child rearing?
The care of childbearing and childrearing families is a major focus of nursing practice, because to have healthy adults you must have healthy children.
This philosophy pertains that the assessment is holistic in the family.
Family Centered
This philosophy of nursing pertains that the health of the family is influenced by the health of the community.
Community Centered
This philosophy in nursing pertains that the critical knowledge increases through research and development. And that practice is dynamic as new evidences occur.
Evidence Based
A maternal and child health nurse serves as a what?
Advocate (to protect the rights of all family members including the fetus)
Maternal and child health nursing includes what?
This includes a high degree of independent nursing functions, because teaching & counselling are major interventions along with promoting health and disease prevention.
Why is maternal and child health nursing important?
Maternal and child health nurse serve as important resources for families during childbearing and childrearing; although maternal and child health nursing is a challenging role for nurses and a major factor in keeping families well and optimally functioning.
What factors are delineated to influence the meaning and the impact of childbearing and childrearing on families?
(1) Personal attitudes
(2) Cultural attitudes
(3) Religious attitude
(4) Beliefs
What circumstances are characterized to be meaningful only in the context of total life?
Illness and pregnancy
This is the proportion of illness in a population and characterized as the amount of people who are sick.
Morbidity (Incidence per population)
This is known to be the incidence of deaths in a population and is characterizes as the amount of people who died.
Mortality (deaths per population (100 to 100,000)
Under measuring child health, this age is considered to be in the range of 0 to 28 days old.
Neonate
Under measuring child health, this age is considered to be within the range of 0 to 1 year old.
Infant
This pertains to the a woman of child bearing age.
Maternal (Pertains to a woman who is already experiencing menstruation)
This pertains to the death of a woman while pregnant, (or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy). It can either be characterized as indirect or direct.
Maternal Death (irrespective of the duration and the site of pregnancy)
This type of maternal death pertains to those deaths resulting from previous existing diseases or from a disease that developed during pregnancy.
Indirect Obstetric Deaths
This type of maternal death pertains to those deaths aggravated by the physiologic effects of pregnancy.
Direct Obstetric Deaths
This type of death are not characterized as maternal deaths.
Accidental or Incidental Deaths
These rates of death pertains to the deaths due to childbearing number of maternal deaths per 1,000 live births during a given period.
Maternal Mortality Rate
These rates of death pertains to the number of deaths of infants per 1,000 live births.
Infant Mortality Rate (Number of infants who died before reaching 1 year old)
How do you calculate the neonatal mortality rate?
Number of infant deaths under 28 days of age/number of live births x 1000 live births (during a year)
What are the goals of the health system?
(1) Financial Protection
(2) Better Health Outcomes
(3) Responsiveness
This goal of the health system pertains to Filipinos especially the poor and the marginalized and vulnerable from the high cost of health care.
Financial Protection
This goal of the health system pertains to Filipinos attaining the best possible health outcomes with no disparity.
Better Health Outcomes
This goal of the health system pertains to Filipinos feeling respected values and empowered in all of their interaction within the health system.
Responsiveness
Why do women die?
(1) Severe bleeding (mostly bleeding after childbirth)
(2) Infections (usually after childbirth)
(3) High blood pressure during pregnancy
(4) Complications from delivery
(5) Unsafe abortion