NURS 2156 - Complications of Childbearing Nursing Credit Hours: 2.00 (8 contact hrs per week for 4 weeks) (replaces NURS-2155) This theory course focuses on planning safe, culturally-diverse, patient and family-centered nursing care for the high-risk childbearing family and on women’s health. It emphasizes using evidence-based practice and quality improvement initiatives to develop critical thinking skills in caring for the women and the childbearing family. Center Campus.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: Admission into the Nursing program and NURS-2146 with grade C or better.
Corequisite: NURS-2175
OUTCOMES AND OBJECTIVES MCC Common Degree Outcomes:
II. The graduate can demonstrate how to think competently.
V. The graduate is sensitive to issues relating to a diverse, global society.
Program Outcome/Student Learning Outcome:
- The student can analyze and apply the critical components of evidence-based nursing practice.
Course Outcome:
- The student can apply evidence-based practice for women experiencing a high risk pregnancy, high risk newborns, and patients with gynecologic problems.
Course Objectives:
- The student will apply evidence-based nursing interventions for patients with pregnancy induced hypertension, gestational diabetes, and preterm labor.
- The student will apply evidence-based nursing interventions for patients with gynecologic problems.
- The student will apply evidence-based nursing interventions for high risk newborns.
MCC Common Degree Outcomes:
I. The graduate can integrate the knowledge and technological skills necessary to be a successful learner.
II. The graduate can demonstrate how to think competently.
Program Outcome/Student Learning Outcome:
- The student can recognize quality improvement strategies as an integral component of nursing practice.
Course Outcome:
- The student can explain national patient safety goals and quality indicators for high risk maternity, high risk newborn, and gynecologic patients.
Course Objectives:
- The student will describe national patient safety goals and quality indicators for the pregnant patient with diabetes.
- The student will describe national patient safety goals and quality indicators related to women experiencing breast cancer.
- The student will describe national patient safety goals and quality indicators for the newborn experiencing hyperbilirubinemia.
COMMON DEGREE OUTCOMES (Bulleted outcomes apply to the course)
- 1. The graduate can integrate the knowledge and technological skills necessary to be a successful learner.
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- 2. The graduate can demonstrate how to think competently.
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- 3. The graduate can demonstrate how to employ mathematical knowledge.
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- 4. The graduate can demonstrate how to communicate competently.
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- 5. The graduate is sensitive to issues relating to a diverse, global society.
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COURSE CONTENT OUTLINE UNIT 1
COMPLICATIONS OF CHILDBEARING
- Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy
- Chronic hypertension
- Preeclampsia
- Eclampsia
- HELLP syndrome
- Pharmacology: Antihypertensives, anticonvulsants
- Complications of Pregnancy
- Hemorrhagic conditions
- Ectopic pregnancy
- Placenta previa/Abruptio placenta
- Abortion
- Premature rupture of membranes
- Pharmacology: Oxytocics
- Intrapartum Complications
- Shoulder dystocia
- Prolapsed cord
- Uterine rupture
- Uterine inversion
- Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders
- Diabetes
- Hyperemesis gravidarum
- Pharmacology: Insulins
- Antepartal Fetal Assessment
- Ultrasonography
- Blood tests
- Chorionic villus sampling
- Amniocentesis
- Fetal surveillance
- Complications of Pregnancy
- Cardiovascular disorders
- Anemias
- Trauma
- Infections
- Rh incompatibility
- Pharmacology: Immunoglobulins, antianemics
- Childbearing Family with Special Needs
- Adolescent pregnancy
- Delayed pregnancy
- Substance abuse
- Loss and grief
- Violence against women
- Labor and Birth at Risk
- Dysfunctional labor
- Premature rupture of membranes
- Preterm labor
- Prolonged pregnancy
- Intrapartum emergencies
- Pharmacology: Oxytocic, prostaglandins
- Postpartum Complications
- Postpartum hemorrhage
- Thromboembolic disease
- Postpartum infections
- Postpartum depression
- Pharmacology: Oxytocic, antibiotics, prostaglandins
UNIT 2
NEWBORN COMPLICATIONS
- Genetics and genetic disorders
- Ethical, Social, and Legal Issues
- Ethics and bioethics
- Social
- Legal
- Gestational Age and Birth Weight
- Preterm infant
- Postdate and post mature infants
- Small for gestational age infant
- Large for gestational age infant
- Acquired and Congenital Problems of the Neonate
- Acquired and congenital respiratory complications
- Hyperbilirubinemia
- Neonatal infections
- Infants of diabetic mothers
- Prenatal drug exposure
- Phenylketonuria
- Cardiac defects
- Gastrointestinal defects
- Central nervous system defects
UNIT 3
WOMEN’S HEALTH
- Infertility
- Factors contributing to infertility
- Evaluation of infertility
- Responses to infertility
- Outcomes after infertility therapy
- Pharmacology: fertility drugs
- Health Assessment, Screening, and Prevention
- Problems of the Breast
- Benign conditions of the breast
- Malignant conditions of the breast
- Pharmacology: antiestrogen
- Experiences and Disorders of the Menstrual Cycle
- Common menstrual disorders
- Menopause
- Pharmacology: Hormones
- Disorders and Neoplasms of the Reproductive Tract
- Structural disorders
- Benign neoplasms
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Endometriosis
- Osteoporosis
- Premenstrual syndrome
- Malignant neoplasms of the endometrium, cervix, and ovary
- Pharmacology: antiestrogens, antibiotics, hormones
Primary Faculty Panek, Krystina Secondary Faculty DeBoer, Karen Associate Dean Pieczynski, Bernadette
Official Course Syllabus - Macomb Community College, 14500 E 12 Mile Road, Warren, MI 48088
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