STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

 

 1. Apply maternal/child and pediatric concepts to safe, quality, evidence-based, family centered-centered nursing care to diverse patient population across the lifespan.

 2. Demonstrate critical thinking and clinical reasoning to make patient-centered care decisions when caring for childbearing families and children.

 3. Relate quality measures to improved patient care for childbearing families and children.

 4. Contribute to collaborative relationships with members of the interdisciplinary team in the maternal/child and pediatric healthcare settings.

 5. Use information management principles, techniques, and systems, and patient care technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

 6. Demonstrate use of leadership principles caring for stable maternal/child and pediatric patients.

 7. Apply professional, legal, and ethical guidelines when caring for stable maternal/child and pediatric patients.

 8. Demonstrate a culture of caring when providing holistic, compassionate, culturally-competent care to stable maternal/child and pediatric patients.

 TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 

 I. Application of key concepts to maternal-child nursing practice

 A. Family Centered Care

 B. Quality/Safety measures

 C. Critical thinking/Clinical reasoning

 D. Collaborative relationships

 E. Information technology

 F. Advocacy

 G. Culture of caring

 

 II. Introduction to maternal-child nursing

 A. Conception and fetal growth

 B. Contraception

 C. Infertility

 D. Maternal, infant, child morbidity, and mortality

 1.  Sudden infant death

 E. Legal-ethical issues

 F. Teaching/Learning Principles

 G. G. Grief and Loss

 

 III. Family in a multicultural society

 A. Cultural/Spiritual beliefs and practices

 B. Family violence, abuse, and neglect

 

 IV. Nursing care of the maternal/newborn patient and family

 A. Adaptations during the perinatal period

 1.  Antepartum

 2.  Intrapartum

 3.  Postpartum

 

 B. Nursing care of the family during the perinatal period

 1.  Antepartum

 2.  Intrapartum

 3.  Postpartum

 

 C. Complications during the perinatal period (Hemorrhage)

 1.  Antepartum (Eclampsia)

 2.  Intrapartum (Precipitous Labor, labor dystocia)

 3.  Postpartum (Hemorrhage, infection)

 

 D. Nursing care of the newborn

 1.  Normal newborn

 2.  Variations of the normal neonate

 3.  Complications of the neonate (Jaundice & Phototherapy, hypothermia, hypoglycemia)

 V. Nursing care of the pediatric patient and family

 A. Growth and development

 1.  Developmental milestones and theorists

 2.  Communicating with the pediatric patient

 3.  Children with special needs

 4.  Anatomical and developmental differences between pediatric and adult clients

 

 B. Health promotion and maintenance

 1.  Assessment

 2.  Anticipatory guidance

 3.  Immunizations

 4.  Safety issues

 5.  Nutrition

 

 C. Pain management

 

 D. Child abuse/neglect

 

 E. Care of the child with alterations in:

 1.  Respiratory (RSV, Asthma, croup, cystic fibrosis)

 2. Cardiac (Congenital anomalies, heart failure)

 3. Genitourinary/Renal (UTI, nephrotic syndrome, Wilms tumor)

 4. Gastrointestinal (pyloric stenosis, hirschsprung’s,  celiac, intussusception)

 5. Metabolic/Endocrine (Fluid & Electrolytes, Fever, Diabetes, Hypothyroid )

 6. Neurologic (Cerebral Palsy, neural tube defects, meningitis)

 7. Musculoskeletal (Muscular dystrophy, trauma, congenital concerns)

 8. Hematologic/Immune (anemias, hemophilia, immunodeficiencies)

 9. Infectious diseases (viral, bacterial, vectored)

 10. Integumentary (burns, infections, trauma)

 11. Oncologic (solid tumors: brain, osteosarcoma, leukemia, symptom management)