RNSG-2208 Maternal/Newborn Nursng & Women's Health

Outcomes

1. Identify common needs and high-risk changes, which may be experienced by women and the childbearing family.
2. Utilize critical thinking and systematic problem-solving for the family during the perinatal period, as well as caring for patients with women's health issues.
3. Examine how developmental, physiological, social, cultural and psychological factors affect the needs of clients and their families, including the newborn, during reproductive, perimenopausal or menopausal years.
4. Compare and contrast etiologies, risk factors, clinical manifestations, diagnostic tools and medical and nursing management of various common health care disorders found among newborns and women during reproductive, perimenopausal or menopausal years.
5. Apply various ways the nurse coordinates the management of human, information, and material resources to provide quality health care to Pediatric clients and their families with basic health care needs.
6. Apply a systematic nursing process using clinical reasoning tools to construct and evaluate an individualized plan of care that includes safe, therapeutic, culturally sensitive, compassionate, evidence-based and educational nursing interventions based on interpretation assessed needs and other pertinent data for the client and family during the reproductive, perimenopausal or menopausal years with various common physiological and psychosocial health care problems.
7. Demonstrate how the nurse can implement measures to promote quality and safe environment for clients, self, and others when caring for a group of clients and families with various reproductive health care needs.
8. Demonstrate how the nurse formulates goals and outcomes using evidence-based data to reduce safety risks for clients and their families experiencing common reproductive health care disorders.
9. Demonstrate how the nurse can be a health care advocate in monitoring and promoting quality and access to care for reproductive, perimenopausal or menopausal clients and their families experiencing various health care disorders.
10. Demonstrate how the nurse can refer clients and their families with reproductive, perimenopausal or menopausal health care needs to resources that facilitate continuity of care, health promotion, maintenance and restoration; and ensure confidentiality.
11. Demonstrate how the nurse communicates with and collaborates with to coordinate all aspects of care for the client and their families during the reproductive, perimenopausal or menopausal years.
12. Examine how the nurse functions within the nurse's legal scope of practice and in accordance with the policies and procedures of the employing health care institution or practice setting when caring for reproductive, perimenopausal or menopausal clients and families with various health care needs.
13. Demonstrate the nurse's responsibility and accountability for providing quality health care to reproductive, perimenopausal or menopausal clients and families with various health care needs.