Maternal Infant Nursing Clinical

Catalog description

This course will prepare you to care for women and infants during the prenatal, antenatal, intranatal, postnatal, and neonatal periods. Topics will include issues affecting childbearing families including fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum care, and common problems in infancy. The course will also address common mental health issues affecting families during the transition to parenthood. Through clinical and/or simulation experiences, you will address the health needs of women and infants before, during, and after pregnancy, explaining rationales for performing specific components of the assessment. The tasks you will be assigned are to assess mothers and newborns with proficiency, communicate with families in a therapeutic manner, document your findings and communicate to the health care team any abnormalities, integrate, correlate, and apply appropriate health care technologies in the care of childbearing families that meets the standard of nursing practice, identifying priority needs, and to write a care plan for how you would manage your patients. You must successfully meet all requirements of both the didactic and clinical courses. Failure of one course will lead to a repeat of both the didactic and clinical courses.