Peds: Introduction to Maternity and Pediatric Nursing Chapter 1
1. Range of Opportunities in Maternity Nursing: Provide care from puberty to
menopause
Specialties include: prenatal care, labor and delivery, postpartum care, newborn
care, neonatal intensive care, women's health, and infertility care
2. Pediatric Nursing's involves: caring for children btw birth and 18 years
Focus on: normal growth and development, acute, chronic, and critical care issues,
and end-of-life and palliative care
3. Nursing Manager definition of Quality:: - Wise use of Resources
- Lack of errors in providing care
- Positive patient feedback
4. Bedside Nurse definition of Quality:: - Delivery of safe and effective care
5. Physician/Midwife definition of Quality:: - Positive patient response to
medications and interventions without complications
6. Patient Definition of Quality:: - Meets expectations for improvement and
recovery
7. Institute of Medicine definition of Quality:: - "The degree to which health
services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health
outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge."
8. Ways for nurses to improve quality:: - Work in scope of practice
- Utilize standards of care based on evidence-based practice
- Make sound decisions in providing care
- Deliver family and patient-centered care with attention to specific needs, values,
and expectations of patient and family
- Identify errors and hazards
9. Ways for nurses to improve quality: (part 2): - Implement safety principles
- Collaborate with heath team members to reduce errors and improve care
- Utilize hospital resources in a cost-effective manner by not wasting materials
and time
- Provide equal care to all patients that does not vary in quality based upon
gender, ethnicity, culture and socioeconomic status
10. Roles in Maternity/Peds Nursing: CNA: - assist patient's daily needs of
nutrition, dressing, and movement
- take vital signs, collect specimens, assist with transportation
- under direct supervision of RNs, NPs, and PAs, or Physicians
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, 11. Roles in Maternity/Peds Nursing: LPN/LVN: Mainly work in Post Partum
and
Newborn Nursey, not Labor&Delivery
- Provide nursing care in multiple settings under RN, NP, physician or midwife
- May help prep patients for pregnancy and delivery
12 Roles in Maternity/Peds Nursing: RN: - Assess, plan, and provide care to
patient, including teaching, monitoring the pregnancy through delivery, providing
postpartum and newborn care, and caring for pediatric patients across
developmental period
13. Roles in Maternity/Peds Nursing: Nurse Practioner: - Prescribe
medications - Contraception, Lactation, Menopause, Postpartum, Fertility, Pre-
Pregnancy - Can't deliver babies
14. Roles in Maternity/Peds Nursing: CNS (Clinical nurse specialist): -
Works alongside nurses providing education and support
- can't deliver babies
15. Roles in Maternity/Peds Nursing: CNM (Certified Nurse Midwife): - Provides
care through pregnancy, labor, delivery, and postpartum
- Prescribes medications
- Only staff besides Physician that has hospital privileges to deliver babies 16.
Who defines the legal outline of nursing functions: State laws.
Be aware of them regarding care and scope of practice, determined by licensing
state.
17. Use three steps to determine if task is appropriate for delegation:: 1. Clarify
what the specific activity/task is by defining all aspects of issue
2. Review legal standards of task
3. Decide if the above elements support or reject the delegated action or task
18. Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses
(AWHONN)
&
Society of Pediatric Nurses: - establishes standards for maternity care
- establishes standards for care of children and families
19. Nurses are held accountable for upholding agency or health-care
institution policies.
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1. Range of Opportunities in Maternity Nursing: Provide care from puberty to
menopause
Specialties include: prenatal care, labor and delivery, postpartum care, newborn
care, neonatal intensive care, women's health, and infertility care
2. Pediatric Nursing's involves: caring for children btw birth and 18 years
Focus on: normal growth and development, acute, chronic, and critical care issues,
and end-of-life and palliative care
3. Nursing Manager definition of Quality:: - Wise use of Resources
- Lack of errors in providing care
- Positive patient feedback
4. Bedside Nurse definition of Quality:: - Delivery of safe and effective care
5. Physician/Midwife definition of Quality:: - Positive patient response to
medications and interventions without complications
6. Patient Definition of Quality:: - Meets expectations for improvement and
recovery
7. Institute of Medicine definition of Quality:: - "The degree to which health
services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health
outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge."
8. Ways for nurses to improve quality:: - Work in scope of practice
- Utilize standards of care based on evidence-based practice
- Make sound decisions in providing care
- Deliver family and patient-centered care with attention to specific needs, values,
and expectations of patient and family
- Identify errors and hazards
9. Ways for nurses to improve quality: (part 2): - Implement safety principles
- Collaborate with heath team members to reduce errors and improve care
- Utilize hospital resources in a cost-effective manner by not wasting materials
and time
- Provide equal care to all patients that does not vary in quality based upon
gender, ethnicity, culture and socioeconomic status
10. Roles in Maternity/Peds Nursing: CNA: - assist patient's daily needs of
nutrition, dressing, and movement
- take vital signs, collect specimens, assist with transportation
- under direct supervision of RNs, NPs, and PAs, or Physicians
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, 11. Roles in Maternity/Peds Nursing: LPN/LVN: Mainly work in Post Partum
and
Newborn Nursey, not Labor&Delivery
- Provide nursing care in multiple settings under RN, NP, physician or midwife
- May help prep patients for pregnancy and delivery
12 Roles in Maternity/Peds Nursing: RN: - Assess, plan, and provide care to
patient, including teaching, monitoring the pregnancy through delivery, providing
postpartum and newborn care, and caring for pediatric patients across
developmental period
13. Roles in Maternity/Peds Nursing: Nurse Practioner: - Prescribe
medications - Contraception, Lactation, Menopause, Postpartum, Fertility, Pre-
Pregnancy - Can't deliver babies
14. Roles in Maternity/Peds Nursing: CNS (Clinical nurse specialist): -
Works alongside nurses providing education and support
- can't deliver babies
15. Roles in Maternity/Peds Nursing: CNM (Certified Nurse Midwife): - Provides
care through pregnancy, labor, delivery, and postpartum
- Prescribes medications
- Only staff besides Physician that has hospital privileges to deliver babies 16.
Who defines the legal outline of nursing functions: State laws.
Be aware of them regarding care and scope of practice, determined by licensing
state.
17. Use three steps to determine if task is appropriate for delegation:: 1. Clarify
what the specific activity/task is by defining all aspects of issue
2. Review legal standards of task
3. Decide if the above elements support or reject the delegated action or task
18. Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses
(AWHONN)
&
Society of Pediatric Nurses: - establishes standards for maternity care
- establishes standards for care of children and families
19. Nurses are held accountable for upholding agency or health-care
institution policies.
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