Introduces the role of the professional nurse as the provider of care for women and their families throughout childbearing and beyond. Addresses health issues within the context of the family environment while recognizing female maturational milestones and discusses how to utilize critical thinking skills, in a systematic, problem solving process, as a framework for providing safe and effective care. Focuses on relationship-based, family-centered nursing that promotes health and manages illness when caring for the childbearing woman and her family. Coursework also discusses how to research best practices and integrate theory in the care of women from adolescence beyond menopause, with an emphasis on maternity care. This course includes supervised clinical agency/laboratory practicums. Course comprised of two hours of theory and six hours of clinical/lab per week.
Goals, Topics, and Objectives
- Caring
- Clinical Decision Making
- Communication
- Culture
- Diversity
- Evidence Based Practice
- Health
- Illness
- Safety
- Wellness
- Advocacy
- Cellular Regulation
- Collaboration
- Comfort
- Development
- Ethics
- Family Dynamics
- Infection
- Legal
- Oxygenation
- Perfusion
- Tissue Integrity
- Reproduction
- Self
- Sexuality
- Spirituality
- Thermoregulation
- Violence
- Evaluate evidence based research to improve health/wellness and illness outcomes for women, families and communities.
- Illustrate effective strategies to communicate with women and their families as well as other members of the health care team.
- Apply the nursing process and standards of care to safely manage women’s health, maternity and newborn care.
- Plan care to promote wellness and safety for the woman throughout the lifespan and the newborn.
- Identify client’s unique needs related to their cultural diversity and demonstrates caring behaviors when adapting nursing care for the woman and her family.
- Distinguish unique legal and ethical issues and implications for care when dealing with this population.
- Choose effective strategies to collaborate with other members of the health care team to provide quality care and maintain client safety, while reducing the risk of harm.
- Employ critical thinking and clinical reasoning to make sound clinical judgments when caring for the woman, her newborn(s) and her family.
- Analyze the nurse's role in advocacy for the woman, the fetus, the newborn, and families.
- Support families’ autonomy to facilitate their full partnership throughout care.
The first ten topics are core concepts reinforced across the curriculum.
Assessment and Requirements
Assessments of academic achievement may include, but are not limited to skills demonstration, written assignments, research papers, case studies, multiple choice testing and hands-on clinical practice.
Outcomes
Credit for Prior College-Level Learning
Maternity HESI exam. Maximum number of attempts for HESI exam is two. Students must also perform a maternity simulation demonstration.
Maternity Simulation demonstration, given in department by department faculty. Faculty will assess demonstration based on evaluation rubric. Evaluation rubric and student checklist located in Department Office. Student must pass the graded rubric with an 80% or higher with the maximum number of attempts: two. Students must also take an exam.