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Nov 04, 2024
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NUR 115W - Maternity NursingCredits: 2 Instructional Contact Hours: 2
Discusses nursing care interventions to promote a safe childbirth experience, and teaching for the childbearing family. Focuses on distinguishing normal from abnormal conditions during the reproductive, antepartum, intrapartum, newborn and postpartum periods. This theory course has a concurrent lab course. Credit may be earned in only one of NUR 115W or NPT 115W or NT 215W .
Prerequisite(s): NUR 101BW , NUR 101BLW or NT 163W , NT 163LW with a minimum grade of “C” (2.0). Corequisite(s): NUR 115LW , NUR 116W , NUR 116LW , NUR 119W , CONCURRENT ENROLLMENT IN CURRENT FEE COURSE REQUIRED - Must be taken at the same time as this course. Lecture Hours: 30 Lab Hours: 0 Meets MTA Requirement: None Pass/NoCredit: No
Outcomes and Objectives
- Demonstrate Human Flourishing, Nursing Judgment, and Spirit of Inquiry while developing Professional Identity as an ADN to improve the quality of care for patients, families, and communities.
- Apply ethical and legal guidelines to maternity health care and communications concerns regarding ethical dilemmas of maternity patients to appropriate personnel.
- Recognize significant information, seeks clarification in the policy and procedure manuals and adds to plan of care.
- Identify diverse practices influencing health care outcomes from maternity patients.
- Use knowledge of holistic influences when providing care to maternity patients and their families.
- Interpret nursing literature for usefulness in care of maternity patients.
- Analyze and interpret assessment data to select priority nursing diagnoses for maternity patients.
- Develop an individualized plan of care with realistic and measurable goals, implements plan of care, and makes adjustments after consulting with instructor.
- Evaluate goals and revise plan of care with the input of instructor.
- Identify and demonstrate patient centered teaching, applying teaching/learning principles to maternity patients.
- Explain and demonstrate professional nursing behaviors.
- Participate as a team member to design, promote and model effective use of technology and standardized practices that support safety and quality.
- Administer and evaluate enteral, topical, intramuscular, subcutaneous and intravenous medications to maternity patients with required supervision, adhering to Medication Administration Assessment Tool.
- Adapt therapeutic communication techniques while caring for maternity patients and support systems in a confidential manner.
- Identify situations where patient advocacy may be indicated and suggests appropriate nursing interventions.
- Recognize and follow through with delegated tasks.
- Using a problem-solving approach, communicate to peers and other members of the health care team regarding the care of maternity patients.
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