Maternal Newborn Nursing: Care for Women, Families, and Newborn

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Chapter 1

• Maternal Newborn Nursing Care for Women,
  Families, and Newborn

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Traditional Nursing Care

• Gloria Nwagwu MSN, FNP-BC, RN

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Shifts in Nursing

• Health-Wellness Continuum
• Linear illness to wellness
• Circular motivate family to health promotion,
  maintenance, and restoration
• Nursing aesthetics

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Changing Demands and Demographics

• Engaging transpersonal care
• Social and technological advances
• Family structure, function, and definition

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Contemporary Nursing Care
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Family-Centered Care

• Nurse as facilitator
• Assists family in making informed choices toward
  outcome of patient/family
• Cultural sensitivity
• Cultural competence

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Modern Technology and the Caring Touch

• Complementary/Alternative Medicine
• Low-tech, high-touch interventions
• Supports whole mind, body, energy, environment,
  and spiritual healing
• Goal patient-centered autonomy

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Touch vs. Tech

• Evidence-Based Practice
• Health Informatics
• Professional Organizations/Standards of Care

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Additional Professional Nursing Roles

• Critical thinker
• Effective communicator
• Advocate

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Review Questions

• Self-care has gained wide acceptance with
  clients, health care community and third party
  payors due to research findings suggesting
• Shortened newborn length of stay
• Decreased used of home health agencies
• Reduced health care costs
• Decreased the number of emergency room visits

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Review Questions

• 2. When preparing to teach a group of culturally
  diverse childbearing families about hospital
  birthing options, in order to be culturally
  competent, the nurse should
• Understand that the family has the same values
  as the nurse
• Teach the family how childbearing takes place in
  the US
• Insist that the client answer questions instead
  of her husband
• Learn about the cultural groups that are likely
  to attend the class

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Review Questions

• 3. The client states, I am using homeopathic
  remedies to help with my morning sickness. The
  nurse understands that the client is utilizing
• A complementary-alternative therapy
• A holistic nursing care
• Traditional Chinese medicine
• Naturopathy

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Review Questions

• 4. A client is asking the nurse about the safety
  and risks of using CAM . How should the nurse
  respond? The use of complementary and
  alternative therapies is
• completely safe and not a problem at all.
• not regulated by the FDA and little has been
  proven about some methods.
• very inexpensive and can easily be tried to see
  if they help your health.
• safe as long as you see a certified practitioner.