MATERNAL AND CHILD

HEALTH NURSING
Chari V. Rivo
Maternal and Child Health Nursing Framework
• Nursing Process
• Nursing theory
• Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies
 Patient-centered Care
 Evidence-based practice
 Teamwork and collaboration
 Safety
 Quality improvement
 informatics
Four Phases of Health Care
1.Health Promotion
2.Health Maintenance
3.Health Restoration
4.Health Rehabilitation
Definitions and
Examples of Phases
of Health Care
Term Definition Examples
Health promotion Educating parents and children to follow Teaching women the importance of rubella immunization
sound health practices through teaching and before pregnancy; providing preteens with information
role modeling about safer sex practices well before they are likely to
become sexually active

Health Intervening to maintain health when risk of Encouraging women to be partners in prenatal care;
Maintenance illness is present teaching parents the importance of safeguarding their
home by childproofing against poisoning

Health Using conscientious assessment to be certain Caring for a woman during a complication of pregnancy
Restoration that symptoms of illness are identified and such as gestational diabetes or a child during an acute
interventions are begun to return patient to illness such as pneumonia
wellness most rapidly

Health Helping prevent complications from illness;
Rehabilitation helping a patient with residual effects
achieve an optimal state of wellness and
independence; helping a patient to accept
inevitable death
Encouraging a woman with gestational trophoblastic
disease (abnormal placenta growth) to continue therapy
or a child with a renal transplant to continue to take
necessary medications