MATERNAL 1-8 Flashcards
(57 cards)
Maternal and child health nursing can be visualized
within a framework:
Nursing Process
Nursing Theory
Evidence-based practice
Care for families during childbearing and childrearing
years,
4 Phases of Health Care
Health Promotion
Health Maintenance
Health Restoration
Health Rehabilitation
Definition:
Educating clients to be aware of good health
through teaching and role modeling.
Health Promotion
Definition:
Intervening to maintain health when risk of illness
is present.
Health Maintenance
Definition:
Promptly diagnosing and treating illness using
interventions that will return client to wellness
most rapidly.
Health Restoration
Definition:
Preventing further complications from an illness;
bringing client back to optimal state of wellness
or helping client to accept inevitable death.
Health Rehabilitation
a proven form of problem solving based on the
scientific method, serves as the basis
applicable to all health care teachings, from the
prenatal clinic to pediatric intensive care unit, a proof
that the method is broad enough to serve as the
basis for all nursing care.
The Nursing Process
involves the use of research or controlled
investigation of a problem in conjunction with clinical
expertise as a foundation for action
bodies of professional knowledge grow and expand
to the extent that people in that profession plan and
carry out research
Evidence-Based Practice
the controlled investigation of problems that have
implications for nursing practice, provides
evidence for practice, upon which the foundation
of nursing grows, expands and improves
Nursing Research
provides the justification for implementing activities
for outcome achievement, ultimately resulting in
improved and cost-effective patient care.
Nursing Research
The primary goal of maternal and child health nursing:
“The promotion and maintenance of optimal family
health to ensure cycles of optimal childbearing and
childrearing”
Standards of Professional Performance
The nurse systematically evaluates the quality and
effectiveness of nursing practice.
Standard I: Quality of Care
Standards of Professional Performance
The nurse evaluates his/her own nursing practice in
relation to professional practice standards and
relevant statutes and regulations.
Standard II: Performance Appraisal
Standards of Professional Performance
The nurse acquires and maintains current knowledge
in nursing practice.
Standard III: Education
Standards of Professional Performance
The nurse contributes to the professional
development of peers, colleagues, and others.
Standard IV: Collegiality
Standards of Professional Performance
The nurse’s decision and actions on behalf of patients
are determined in an ethical manner.
Standard V: Ethics
Standards of Professional Performance
The nurse collaborates with the patient, significant
others, and health care providers in providing patient
care.
Standard VI: Collaboration
Standards of Professional Performance
The nurse uses research findings in practice.
Standard VII: Research
Standards of Professional Performance
The nurse considers factors related to safety,
effectiveness, and cost in planning and delivering
patient care.
Standard VIII: Resource Utilization
Standards of Professional Performance
The nurse contributes to the environment of care
delivery within the practice settings.
Standard IX: Practice Environment
2020 National Health Goals
The 2020 National Health Goals are intended to help
citizens more easily understand the importance of health
promotion and disease prevention and to encourage
wide participation in improving health in the next
decade.
Standards of Professional Performance
The nurse in is professionally and legally accountable
for his/ her practice. The professional registered nurse
may delegate to and supervise qualified personnel
who provide patient care.
Standard X: Accountability
The two main overarching national health goals are:
Increase quality and years of healthy life.
Eliminate health disparities.
Global Health Goals
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 environmental sustainability.
Develop a global partnership for development
