Current Issues in Maternal and Newborn Nursing
Source : Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
- Nursing 2208
- Maternal/Newborn Nursing
- Tamara Dennis
- Define key terms associated with contemporary issues, trends and statistics in maternal/child nursing.
- Describe the changes in healthcare delivery system for the pregnant client.
- Discuss the professional options available in the maternal/child nursing.
- Discuss the impact healthcare reform has upon maternal/child nursing.
- Identify resources available for information supporting care of the maternal/infant client.
- Best practice: a program or service that has been recognized for excellence.
- Clinical benchmarking: standards based on results achieved by others.
- Healthy people 2000 & 2010: a public health program of the united states government with goals for a ten year period.
- Outcomes oriented care: measures effectiveness of care against benchmarks of standards.
- Standard of care: level of practice that a reasonably prudent nurse would provide.
- Role of today’s maternal-newborn nurse
- Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Nurse Practitioner/Perinatal Nurse Practitioner
- Certified Nurse Midwife
- Lay midwifery
- How is Maternal-Newborn Nursing changing?
- Then and Now……
- What are the career options?
- Legal/Ethical issues.
- Statistically speaking…..?
- 1906 - First program for prenatal nursing care established.
- 1908 – child birth classes started by the American Red Cross.
- 1958 – Edward Hon reported on the recording of the fetal ECG from the maternal abdomen (first monitor’s late 1960s).
- 1963 – Social Security Act amended to include comprehensive maternal/infant care for low income clients and high risk clients.
- 1965 – Supreme Court ruled married people have the right to use contraceptives.
- 1969 – NAACOG founded.
- 1972 WIC started.
- 1974 – NAACOG publishes the first standards of care for obstetric, neonatal and gynecologic nurses.
- 1978 – first test tube baby
- 1993 – Family and Medical Leave Act enacted.
- Development of family-centered care
- The role of consumerism
- Birthing alternatives
- Technologic advances
- “Best” practices
- Issues of cost and access to health care
- Political Issues
- Impact on maternal-newborn care
- Advanced technology versus “natural”
- Legal issues
- Special ethical issues
- Nursing implications
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