GOALS OF MCN

PHASES OF 1. Pre conceptual Health Care

2. Care of women 3 Trimester of pregnancy
HEALTH CARE
3. Care of women during Puerperium or 4th
Health Promotion Trimester
Health Maintenance 4. Care of women during Perinatal Period
Health Restoration 5. Care of children from birth to adolescence
6. Care in settings as varied as the birthing
Health Rehabilitation
room, the PICU and the home

PHILOSOPHIES OF MCN TRENDS IN MATERNAL AND CHILD

• Family-Centered HEALTH NURSING POPULATION
• Community Centered Families are smaller in size
• Evidenced Based Increased Single Parents
• Independent Nursing Increased mothers working
Functions outside home
• Advocate Families are more mobile
• Health Promotion and Child and Intimate Partner Abuse MEASU
RING
Disease Prevention MATER
Families are more health conscious NAL A
CHILD ND
• Challenging Role for Nurses Health care should respect cost HEALT
H
containment

INFANT MORTALITY NEONATAL DEATH MATERNAL FERTILITY

FETAL DEATH RATE: RATE RATE MORTALITY RATE BIRTH RATE
RATE
no. of deaths per 1000 live
1st 28 days of life; infant called Neonate no. of maternal deaths per 100,000 No. of pregnancies per
Weighing more than 500 g or more per No. of deaths per 1000 live births live births that occur that occur as a
births in the first 12 months of 1000 women of
1000 live births occurring in the 1st to 28 days of life direct result od reproductive processs 1000 PER YEAR
life. childbearing age.