NCM 107 Lecture Module 1
NCM 107 Lecture Module 1
NCM 107 Lecture Module 1
1. What are the Goals and Philosophies of Maternal and Child Health Nursing?
- Maternal and child health nursing's main objective care can be defined as the simple act
of promoting and maintaining a family's optimal health to ensure cycles of having
children and raising them.Maternal and Child Health Nursing works to ensure that every
nursing and expecting woman maintains excellent health, gains knowledge of child
rearing, experiences a normal birth, and produces healthy offspring. Every child should,
wherever possible, be raised in a loving, secure family unit with access to healthy
environments, proper nutrition, health monitoring, and effective medical care. Children
should also be taught the fundamentals of healthy life. While its philosophy is that
maternal and child health nursing is founded on nursing theory and is community-
centered and research-centered. where it prioritizes health promotion, employs a high
level of autonomous functioning, and protects the rights of every family member.
2. What are the Standards of care for Maternal and Child Health Nursing?
- Intensive pediatric nursing care emphasizes aiding families, communities, and children
to reach their highest level of health. The nursing process, which includes primary,
secondary, and tertiary care that is integrated across health care and community
contexts, is the ideal foundation for doing this.
● Standard I: Assessment
- The pediatric nurse collects patient health data.
● Standard II: Diagnosis
- The Pediatric nurse analyzes the assessment data in determining
diagnoses.
● Standard III: Outcome Identification
- The pediatric nurse identifies expected outcomes individualized to the
child and the family.
● Standard IV: Planning
- The pediatric nurse develops a plan of care that prescribes interventions
to obtain expected outcomes.
● Standard V: Implementation
- The pediatric nurse implements the interventions identified in the plan of
care.
● Standard VI: Evaluation
- The pediatric nurse evaluates the child’s and family’s progress toward
attainment of outcomes.
3. Identify the Roles and Responsibilities of a Maternal Child Nurse in relation to our
STANDARD OF PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE
4. Relate the following Theories in the care of the Maternal and Child:
a. MERCER’S MATERNAL ROLE ATTAINMENT THEORY
● Ramona T. Mercer’s Maternal Role Attainment Theory
- Focuses on the mother-baby developmental and interactional process. It
provides proper health care interventions for nontraditional mothers in
order for them to favorably adopt a strong maternal identity.
b. BENNER’S THEORY
● Patricia Benner’s Novice to Expert Theory
- Nursing is a caring relationship. Nurses grow from novice to expert as
they practice in clinical settings.
All UN Member States have committed to working toward attaining the 17 Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs, also known as the Global Goals) by the year 2030. There are 169
objectives in all. The SDGs seek to advance prosperity while addressing climate change and
conserving the environment in all nations, including those with low, medium, and high incomes.
To ensure that "no one is left behind," they place a major emphasis on enhancing equality to
better serve the needs of women, children, and underserved communities in particular.
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Pillitteri, A. (2009). Maternal & child health nursing: Care of the childbearing and
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Benner's From Novice to Expert. (2020, July 19). Retrieved September 14, 2020,
from https://nursing-theory.org/theories-and-models/from-novice-to-
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https://www.who.int/health-topics/sustainable-development-goals