I. General Information

1. Course Title:
Maternal Child Health

2. Course Prefix & Number:
PNUR 1175

3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:

Credits: 2

Lecture Hours: 2

Lab Hours: 0

4. Course Description:

This course describes signs of pregnancy, prenatal care, labor and delivery, and postpartum care. Complications of pregnancy, labor and delivery and postpartum, as well as fundamental nursing care of the neonate will be presented. The pediatric portion of the course describes the child's experience of hospitalization and health care adaptations for child and family. Care of the child with pediatric disease conditions will be presented.

5. Placement Tests Required:

6. Prerequisite Courses:

7. Other Prerequisites

 

9. Co-requisite Courses:

There are no corequisites for this course.

II. Transfer and Articulation

1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:

St. Cloud Technical College, PRSG 2450 Family Health Nursing, 3 credits
Ridgewater College, NURS 1400 Family Nursing, 2 credits

III. Course Purpose

1. Program-Applicable Courses – This course fulfills a requirement for the following program(s):

Practical Nursing, Diploma

IV. Learning Outcomes

1. College-Wide Outcomes

College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies	Students will be able to:
Demonstrate written communication skills	Write a teaching scenario to pediatric patients using appropriate resources and proper spelling and grammar.
Apply abstract ideas to concrete situations	Apply nursing theory principles to scenarios presented in the classroom.
Discuss/compare characteristics of diverse cultures and environments	Discuss diverse cultural and environmental characteristics/situations related to client care across the health care continuum.

2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of the course:

• Recognize signs and symptoms of pregnancy
• Describe prenatal care including length of pregnancy and due date calculation
• Identify pregnancy complications including infections and other high risk factors
• Differentiate the four stages of labor, including nursing care in each stage
• Identify the differences between true and false labor
• Relate the complications of labor and methods of monitoring mother and fetus, examples fetal monitoring and c-section delivery
• Integrate pain management methods for the laboring patient
• Relate postpartum care and complications
• Contrast breast and bottle feeding
• Describe the newborn, including the preterm, postterm, and term newborn
• Demonstrate the care of a newborn with a complication
• Describe the role of the nurse in women’s health-care
• Explain the pediatric child’s hospital experience in each stage of development
• Apply nursing care of the pediatric child with a condition of the following systems:
• Neurological, musculoskeletal, respiratory, blood and lymph, circulatory, gastrointestinal, urinary, integumentary, endocrine, and reproductive
• Demonstrate ability to calculate pediatric medication dosages
• Explain the nurse's role in reporting child abuse
• Relate developmental characteristics and teaching/learning strategies that are appropriate to the pediatric patient

V. Topical Outline

Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.

1. Lecture Sessions

1. Unit 1
• Past, present and future in maternity and pediatric nursing
• Human reproductive anatomy and physiology
• The nurses role in women’s health care
• Prenatal development
• Prenatal care and Pregnancy care
• Nursing care of women with pregnancy complications
2. Unit 2
• Nursing care of mother and infant during labor and birth
• Management of pain in labor and delivery
• Nursing care of women with complications during labor and birth
• Nursing care of women with complications following birth
3. Unit 3
• The family after birth
• The term Newborn
• Pre and post term newborns
• The newborn with complications
4. Unit 4
• The child’s experience with hospitalization
• Health care adaptations for the child and family
• The child with a neurological condition
5. Unit 5
• The child with a musculoskeletal condition
• The child with a respiratory or cardiovascular condition
• The child with a blood or lymph condition
• The child with a gastrointestinal condition
6. Unit 6
• The child with a genitourinary condition
• The child with a skin condition
• The child with a metabolic condition
• The child with a communicable disease
• The child with an emotional or behavioral condition