Course

Objective:

Learning Outcomes:

• Perform a complete postpartum assessment in accordance with patient centered care
• Evaluate outcomes of nursing interventions that utilizes evidence based practice, safety and continued quality improvement
• Educate patient in promotion of patient centered health care activities: sitz bath, perineal aids, breast care, bladder/bowel elimination, infection control, and woman's health care
• Implement patient centered nursing measures to provide safe newborn care in such areas of: bathing, cord care, circumcision care, feeding, vital signs, and thermal regulation
• Document appropriate information in nurse's progress notes as well as use of current informatics in the clinical setting
• Report patient's progress to instructor and nursing staff focused on teamwork and collaboration as needed at the end of the clinical day
• Observe in the patient centered care in a vaginal delivery
• Observe patient centered procedures such as a circumcision with focus on safety and collaboration
• Develop a nursing care plan and/or concept map incorporating evidence practice and continued quality of care that meets the needs of the newly formed-childbearing family as well as the newborn's adaptation to the extra uterine environment
• Perform a complete newborn assessment in accordance with patient centered care
• Implement nursing measures in the clinical care of the in-patient antepartum and/or postpartum client/family that utilizes evidence based practice and safety
• Observe in the patient centered care of the family experiencing a cesarean delivery

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