Prenatal Teaching Plan

As an obstetrical nurse in the 21st century, I view family centered care as the focus in relation to my commitment to partnering with clients, their families and the multidisciplinary team. As such, I would define nursing as the ability to use knowledge and clinical judgement to provide holistic, competent and safe care to patient’s both healthy and sick, drawing on that partnership as needed. Well stated in own words definition of nursing reflecting own practice

Christine Le, an accountant living in Flushing, New York, gave birth to a healthy baby “Nathan” on January 29th, 2010. She found out that she was pregnant with her first child when her period was late. She had the routine prenatal care starting at 12 weeks and delivered at 40 weeks in a hospital with the present of her husband, Robert, and the in-laws. To insure her baby was healthy, Christine underwent several prenatal diagnostic methods like amniocentesis to examine for genetic defects. Another method was ultrasound; its purpose is to assess fetal age, multiple pregnancies, size and shape of the fetus. Christine underwent numerous lab tests to ensure that there are no complications (Berk, pg.43). Lab tests like a complete blood count that screens

Throughout the first year Foundations of Professional Nursing course, I have gained a better understand of nursing and thus my perspective on nursing has developed a lot. After learning about the different concepts and theories in nursing, I feel I understand the role of nurses better and it makes me proud to have chosen this profession. I have also realized how much the concepts I have learned this year have affected my perspective on nursing and have helped shape me into becoming a nurse. In addition, I have been able to develop a personal philosophy of nursing. This paper will examine the importance of a sub- concept to nursing, reflect on my personal journey of development as a nurse and discuss my personal philosophy of nursing.

Nursing has developed into a profession, in which many theories have been developed and presented in order to lend guidance for purposeful and meaningful practice. In general, nursing theories are based on four concepts that collectively make up the nursing metaparadigm: person, environment, health, and nursing. These four concepts represent a commonality in the nursing profession (Tourville & Ingalls, 2003). This paper will

Personal theory and philosophies are important for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) to help care for patients and their career. According to the American Nurses Association (ANA, 2010) an “APRNs are registered nurses (RN) who have acquired advanced specialized clinical knowledge and skills to provide health care” (p. 112). APRN is a general term used to describe certified registered nurse anesthetist, certified nurse midwife, clinical nurse specialist, and nurse practitioners (NP) (ANA, 2010). For the purpose of this paper and my personal theory and philosophy, I will focus on the NP as the APRN. NPs are able to perform comprehensive assessments and promote health and prevention of illness and injuries (ANA, 2010). The ANA’s concepts of health promotion and disease prevention have helped shape my personal theory and aided in identifying a theory for my future practice as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP). The best theory to guide my practice will be Nola J. Pender’s health promotion model (HPM). By using Pender’s HPM, it will allow me to identify each patient as an individual with different needs for health promotion and disease management.

A nursing philosophy is the thoughts and beliefs about the job of a nurse based on one’s values. My values that have formed over the years have influenced me to purse a forever career as a nurse. I grew up in a small town Smithfield, Pennsylvania with my parents and younger brother. My community consisted of close relationships between the residents. Every one helped and cared for one another when needed. The practices of my community guided me to want to become a nurse. I want to continue to care for my community and give back to them by treating their illnesses and providing them with better health care. I am particularly interested in caring for pediatric patients. My goal is to try to provide every infant a chance to live their beautiful life created for them by God. While doing this, the primary focus of being a nurse will be to accommodate my patients and allow them to become a healthy person again.

This paper is being submitted on January 17, 2017, for Eugenie Cook’s Fundamentals of Professional Nursing course.

In Lonita’s situation, Tano is making enough money to make it just above the poverty line, this makes it extremely difficult to pinch their pockets and pay for medical examinations. To avoid a stressful nine months, it is best for them to find a comprehensive health care program available in close proximity to them or in their area. These programs educate expecting couples on how to stay motivated and empower their children so they have a greater, and more successful outcome than they do. Attending these programs would inform Lonita on the fact that when she has flu-like symptoms, she should not self diagnose herself and

This paper is about the information from AAR. AAR is 38 years old, living and working in the surrounding Danville, PA area. AAR works for finance with an associate’s degree. AAR and her husband, PAR, are expecting their fourth child. AAR is gravida four, term three, preterm zero, abortion zero, and has three living children. With a last menstrual period of June eighteenth, AAR is fourteen weeks and five days and her estimated

A mothers nutritional status, before and during her pregnancy has a powerful impact on the lifelong health for her child. It is now even believed by some researchers say that “the 9 months of pregnancy are the most consequential period of our lives, permanently influencing the wiring of the brain and the function of organs like the heart, liver and pancreas. They also suggest that the conditions we encounter in utero shape everything from our susceptibility to disease, to our appetite and metabolism, to our intelligence and temperament” (Kresser). The mother’s prenatal care, nutrition, and precautions taken all play a key role in the child’s development for later in life. Since the

Do the nurses care about the newborns or not? Most people think that the nurses are compassionate and caring. In a hospital, the nurses are the ones who have to make sure that the patients are well and take their medications on time. They spend a lot of time with the patients and always try to make them feel comfortable. For example, according to the essay “Role of caring in the nursing profession” caring is the most important role in nursing (2).

Nursing as a profession has evolved through the contributions of practicing nurse theorists who have worked rigorously toward improving the way nurses approach the art and science of nursing. Through theory development, nursing models, and their conceptual frameworks, they have provided a foundation for nurses and their practice. Nursing theories have developed from the choices and assumptions about the nature of what a particular theorist believes about nursing, what the basis of nursing knowledge is, and nurses do or how they practice in

Evidence from high quality systematic reviews show that the strategies most likely to increase breastfeeding initiation incorporate mainly antenatal interventions. These include antenatal breastfeeding education and antenatal peer support programs as well as the postnatal intervention of promoting an increase in duration of early mother-infant contact (Amir et al., 2010; Brand et al., 2011). One of the main factors is maternal intention to breastfeed (Forster & McLachlan, 2007). Mothers with prenatal intention to breastfeed were more likely to have a longer duration of breastfeeding (Kervin et al., 2010). Research suggests that the decision to breastfeed is often made before falling pregnant or during the early stages of pregnancy (Forster & McLachlan, 2007). The role of the midwife at these points is to discuss the woman’s desire and intention to breastfeed and positively influence this decision by showing the benefits of breastfeeding (BFHI number 3) (Amir et al., 2010; Apostolakis-Kyrus, Valentine & DeFranco, 2013; Forster et al., 2006; Forster & McLachlan, 2007). Hospital education that includes hands on problem solving activities involving the partner and support network is evidenced to be more beneficial than pamphlets (Amir et al., 2010; Forster & McLachlan, 2007; Hunter & Cattelona, 2014). Despite the evidence of the importance of the role of the midwife in

educational preparation, underutilization, and title ambiguity. “ At the time when mothers had preemies there was not much they could do because they did not have the technology that we

Prenatal care is the preventative measure used by healthcare professionals to assess the health and wellbeing of a mother and her unborn child. It consists of various blood and urine tests, examination of the health history of the mother and her family, ultrasounds and other exams ("Prenatal Care Fact Sheet", 2012). This care gives healthcare professionals the opportunity to examine the fetus for any adverse complications that may have arisen, and address any issues that may have occurred within the mother. Prenatal care visits also allow time for women to ask any questions that they may need to address about their pregnancy. It is vital that expectant mothers receive adequate prenatal care early in their pregnancy because the earlier that