SCHOOL OF HEALTH AND ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES

Nursing Department

SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING 1 (CLINICAL AREA)

Name: __Juviely Calumba Premacio__Group: BSN-3E Date:

Answer the following:

1. What are your roles as a Maternal and Child Health Nurse?

My roles as a maternal and child health nurse is to

2. How can you ensure a healthy outcome for the mother and child?
To ensure

3. What are some factors that contribute to fetal/neonatal and maternal deaths?

4. Why is nursing process important in Maternal and Child Health Nursing?

5. How can you contribute in achieving the primary goal of Maternal and Child Health
Nursing?

6. What are the benefits of Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice to nursing
practice?

Define the following:

1. Nursing Process- a form of problem solving based on the scientific method, serves as the basis
for assessing, making a nursing diagnosis, planning, organizing, and evaluating care.
2. Nursing Theory- ways to view clients so that nursing activities can best meet client needs
3. Nursing Research- the controlled investigation of problems that have implications for nursing
practice, provides evidence for practice and justification for implementing activities for outcome
achievement, ultimately resulting in improved and cost-effective patient care.
4. Evidence-Based Practice- is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best
evidence in making decisions about the care of patients
5. Birth Rate- is the ratio between the number of live-born births in the year and the average
total population of that year.
6. Fertility Rate- reflects what proportion of women who could have babies are having them.
Fertility rates may be low in countries troubled by famine, war, or disease.
7. Fetal Death- as the death in utero of a child (fetus) weighing 500 g or more, roughly the
weight of a fetus of 20 weeks’ or more pregnancy.

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8. Neonatal Death-
The first 28 days of life
are known as the neonatal period, and an infant during this time.

9. Infant Mortality- probability of a child born in a specific year or period dying before reaching
the age of one, if subject to age-specific mortality rates of that period.
10. Child Mortality
11. Maternal Mortality- is the number of maternal deaths that occur as a direct result of the
reproductive process per 100,000 live birth

Obtain the leading causes and the latest statistics of the following (data should be from
the Department of Health):

1. Fetal Mortality Rate

2. Neonatal Mortality Rate

3. Infant Mortality Rate
4. Child Mortality Rate
5. Maternal Mortality Rate