Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Current Issues in Maternal and Newborn Nursing

Current Issues in Maternal and Newborn Nursing
  1. Nursing 2208
  2. Maternal/Newborn Nursing
  3. Tamara Dennis
Learning Outcomes:
  • 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.
Key Terms
  • 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.
Professional options
  • Role of today’s maternal-newborn nurse
  • Clinical Nurse Specialist
  • Nurse Practitioner/Perinatal Nurse Practitioner
  • Certified Nurse Midwife
  • Lay midwifery
Evolving Trends and Issues in Maternal-Newborn Nursing
  • How is Maternal-Newborn Nursing changing?
  • Then and Now……
  • What are the career options?
  • Legal/Ethical issues.
  • Statistically speaking…..?
A Little History……
  • 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.
Changes in practice in the last two decades…...
  • Development of family-centered care
  • The role of consumerism
  • Birthing alternatives
  • Technologic advances
  • “Best” practices
Health care reform…...
  • Issues of cost and access to health care
  • Political Issues
  • Impact on maternal-newborn care
Healthcare issues for childbearing families.
  • Advanced technology versus “natural”
  • Legal issues
  • Special ethical issues
  • Nursing implications

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