SCHOOL OF HEALTH AND ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES

Nursing Department

SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING 1 (CLINICAL AREA)

Name: Jillian Marie S. Durens Group: 2 Date: August 6, 2021

Answer the following:

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

My role as a maternal and child health nurse is to provide individual care to
both the mother and child; we also monitors and implement educational
programs to guide parents, that enable them to develop supportive social
network, support and monitor the health and development of a child from birth
up to their adolescents and to their parents.

2. How can you ensure a healthy outcome for the mother and child?
Health outcomes for the mother and child will be attained through the
compliance to health education and advices provided. It starts with a family that
follows healthy lifestyle and diet, choosing healthy choices in life before
conception, during pregnancy and after childbirth.
3. What are some factors that contribute to fetal/neonatal and maternal
deaths?
The factors that associates with neonatal death are; preterm labor,
antepartum hemorrhage, intrapartum asphyxia, infection, congenital abnormality
and intrauterine growth retardation. Severe bleeding mostly after birth, infections

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 Usually after birth, high blood pressure during pregnancy, complications
during labor and unsafe abortion are some of the major components that
accounts mostly to maternal deaths.
4. Why is nursing process important in Maternal and Child Health
Nursing?
It is proven that nursing process is a form of problem-solving based in
scientific method serves as the basis in doing assessments, nursing diagnosis,
planning, organizing and evaluating care. Nursing process is applicable to all
health care settings and the method is broad to serve as the basis in all nursing
care.
5. How can you contribute in achieving the primary goal of Maternal and
Child Health Nursing?
My contribution to achieve the primary goal of maternal and child health
nursing is by completing heath care tasks with the use of nursing ethics and to
apply the knowledge I gained throughout the study. Assessing families for their
strengths as well as their specific needs. Respects cultural diversity and
encourage families to give care to any recipients of care in the family.
6. What are the benefits of Nursing Research and Evidence-Based
Practice to nursing practice?
Nursing Research develops health promotion, enhancing the ability of
patients to cooperate effectively on potential health problems. It helps nurses to
advance their fields, stay updated and offer better patient care. At the other
hand, Evidence-Based practice utilizes the best evidence as basis of nursing
practice. Evidence-Based collects, processes and implements research findings to
improve clinical practice, thus also benefits the work environment and patient
outcomes.

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Define the following:
1. Nursing Process- functions as a systematic guide to client-centered care
with 5 sequential steps. These are assessment, diagnosis, planning,
implementation, and evaluation.

2. Nursing Theory - are organized bodies of knowledge to define what nursing

is, what nurses do, and why do they do it. Nursing theories provide a way to
define nursing as a unique discipline that is separate from other disciplines (e.g.,
medicine). It is a framework of concepts and purposes intended to guide the
practice of nursing at a more concrete and specific level.

3. Nursing Research- develops knowledge about health and the promotion of

health over the full lifespan, care of persons with health problems and disabilities,
and nursing actions to enhance the ability of individuals to respond effectively to
actual or potential health problems.

4. Evidence-Based Practice- is the process of collecting, processing, and

implementing research findings to improve clinical practice, the work
environment, or patient outcomes. Utilizing the EBP approach to nursing practice
helps us provide the highest quality and most cost-efficient patient care possible.

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- refers to the number of children a woman would have by the
time she reaches age 50 under a given fixed fertility schedule. It is sometimes
referred to as completed family size. It is the average number of births per 100
females aged 15-49 years.

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7. Fetal Death - is the death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction of a
product of conception from its mother, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy;
the death is indicated by the fact that after such separation the fetus does not
breathe or show any other evidence of life, such as beating of the heart,
pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles.

8. Neonatal Death- is the death among live births during the first 28 completed
days of life.

9. Infant Mortality- is the death of an infant under one year of age.

10. Child Mortality- is the death of an infant under the age of five.

11. Maternal Mortality - is the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42

days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of the
pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its
management, but not from accidental or incidental causes.

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

1. Fetal Mortality Rate

Leading Causes: Fetal death of unspecified cause, Fetus and newborn affected by
complications of placenta, cord and membranes, Birth asphyxia

Latest Statistics: 5.2

2. Neonatal Mortality Rate

Leading Causes: Bacterial sepsis of newborn, Respiratory distress of newborn,

Pneumonia

Latest Statistics: 12.6

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3. Infant
Mortality Rate

Leading Causes: Bacterial sepsis of newborn, Respiratory distress of newborn,

Pneumonia

Latest Statistics: 12.6

4. Child Mortality Rate

Leading Causes: Pneumonia, Remainder diseases of the nervous system,

Diarrhea and gastroenteritis of presumed infectious origin

Latest Statistics: (not specified)

5. Maternal Mortality Rate

Leading Causes: Eclampsia, Gestational [pregnancy-induced] hypertension with

significant proteinuria, Other maternal diseases classifiable elsewhere but
complicating pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium Latest Statistics: 1.0
Source:

2018 Philippine Health Statistics. Epidemiology Bureau Department of Health.

Retrieved from
https://doh.gov.ph/sites/default/files/publications/2018%20Philippine%20Health
%20Statistics.pdf

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