CARE OF MOTHER, CHILD, & ADOLESCENCE (WELL evaluating the effectiveness of

CLIENTS) care
o Serves as an advocate to
 Maternal and Child Health Nursing - the nursing
protect the rights of all family
specialty that deals with the care of women
members including the fetus
throughout their pregnancy and childbirth and
o Demonstrates a high degree of
the care of their newborn children.
independent nursing functions
 Maternal health refers to the health of women because teaching and
during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal counselling are major
period. interventions
o Promotes health and disease
 Every day in 2017, approximately 810 women
prevention because these
died from preventable causes related to
protect the health of the next
pregnancy and childbirth.
generation
 Between 2000 and 2017, the maternal mortality o Serves as an important resource
ratio (MMR, number of maternal deaths per for families during childbearing
100,000 live births) dropped by about 38% and childrearing as these can be
worldwide. extremely stressful times in a
life cycle
 94% of all maternal deaths occur in low and o Respects personal, cultural, and
lower middle-income countries. spiritual attitudes and impact of
 Young adolescents (ages 10-14) face a higher childbearing and childrearing
risk of complications and death as a result of
pregnancy than other women.
B. Maternal and Child Health Goals and Standards
Goal of MCH 1. Global Health Goals MDGs
 To ensure that every expectant and nursing 1) Advocates extreme poverty and
mother maintains good health, learns the art off hunger
child care, has normal the delivery and bears 2) achieve universal primary
healthy child. education
 that every child, wherever possible lives and 3) promote gender equality and
grows up in a family unit with love and security, empower women
in healthy surroundings, receives adequate 4) reduce child mortality
nourishment, health supervision and efficient 5) improve maternal health
medical attention, and is thought the elements 6) combat HIV or aids, malaria and
of healthy living other diseases
7) ensure environmental sustainability
A. Goals and Philosophies of Maternal and Child 8) develop a global partnership for
Health Nursing development
 Primary goal – promotion and 2. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
maintenance of optimal family health
 To ensure that every expectant and
nursing mother maintains good health,
learns the art of child care, has normal
delivery and bears healthy child.
 Philosophies:
o Family centered
o Community centered
o Evidence – based
o Challenging role for nurses and
a major factor in keeping
families well and optimally
functioning
 A maternal and child health nurse:
o Considers a family as a whole
and as a partner in care when
planning or implementing or