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    This document outlines a self-directed learning assignment for a nursing student in a maternal and child health clinical area. It asks the student to answer questions about their roles as a maternal and child health nurse, how to ensure healthy outcomes for mothers and children, and factors contributing to fetal, neonatal, and maternal deaths. It also defines key terms related to nursing process, theory, research, evidence-based practice, and mortality rates. The student is asked to obtain the latest statistics on mortality rates from the Department of Health.

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    School of Health and Allied Health Sciences Nursing Department

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    This document outlines a self-directed learning assignment for a nursing student in a maternal and child health clinical area. It asks the student to answer questions about their roles as a maternal and child health nurse, how to ensure healthy outcomes for mothers and children, and factors contributing to fetal, neonatal, and maternal deaths. It also defines key terms related to nursing process, theory, research, evidence-based practice, and mortality rates. The student is asked to obtain the latest statistics on mortality rates from the Department of Health.

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    This document outlines a self-directed learning assignment for a nursing student in a maternal and child health clinical area. It asks the student to answer questions about their roles as a maternal and child health nurse, how to ensure healthy outcomes for mothers and children, and factors contributing to fetal, neonatal, and maternal deaths. It also defines key terms related to nursing process, theory, research, evidence-based practice, and mortality rates. The student is asked to obtain the latest statistics on mortality rates from the Department of Health.

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    School of Health and Allied Health Sciences Nursing Department

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    This document outlines a self-directed learning assignment for a nursing student in a maternal and child health clinical area. It asks the student to answer questions about their roles as a maternal and child health nurse, how to ensure healthy outcomes for mothers and children, and factors contributing to fetal, neonatal, and maternal deaths. It also defines key terms related to nursing process, theory, research, evidence-based practice, and mortality rates. The student is asked to obtain the latest statistics on mortality rates from the Department of Health.

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    SCHOOL OF HEALTH AND ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES

    Nursing Department

    SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING 1 (CLINICAL AREA)

    Name: __Juviely Calumba Premacio__Group: BSN-3E Date:

    Answer the following:

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


    My roles as a maternal and child health nurse is to

    2. How can you ensure a healthy outcome for the mother and child?
    To ensure

    3. What are some factors that contribute to fetal/neonatal and maternal deaths?

    4. Why is nursing process important in Maternal and Child Health Nursing?

    5. How can you contribute in achieving the primary goal of Maternal and Child Health
    Nursing?

    6. What are the benefits of Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice to nursing
    practice?

    Define the following:

    1. Nursing Process- a form of problem solving based on the scientific method, serves as the basis
    for assessing, making a nursing diagnosis, planning, organizing, and evaluating care.
    2. Nursing Theory- ways to view clients so that nursing activities can best meet client needs
    3. Nursing Research- the controlled investigation of problems that have implications for nursing
    practice, provides evidence for practice and justification for implementing activities for outcome
    achievement, ultimately resulting in improved and cost-effective patient care.
    4. Evidence-Based Practice- is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best
    evidence in making decisions about the care of patients
    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- reflects what proportion of women who could have babies are having them.
    Fertility rates may be low in countries troubled by famine, war, or disease.
    7. Fetal Death- as the death in utero of a child (fetus) weighing 500 g or more, roughly the
    weight of a fetus of 20 weeks’ or more pregnancy.

    1
    8. Neonatal Death-
    The first 28 days of life
    are known as the neonatal period, and an infant during this time.

    9. Infant Mortality- probability of a child born in a specific year or period dying before reaching
    the age of one, if subject to age-specific mortality rates of that period.
    10. Child Mortality
    11. Maternal Mortality- is the number of maternal deaths that occur as a direct result of the
    reproductive process per 100,000 live birth

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

    1. Fetal Mortality Rate

    2. Neonatal Mortality Rate


    3. Infant Mortality Rate
    4. Child Mortality Rate
    5. Maternal Mortality Rate

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