November 21 & 22, 2022
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Zoom Online Meeting
Learner Outcome: Participants
will be able to apply current standards of care in inpatient obstetric nursing
to selected situations, in accordance with the NCC standards of care for
inpatient obstetric nursing.
Objectives:
- Recognize
maternal disease processes, pregnancy risk factors, treatment modalities and
complications that impact the maternal/fetus/newborn.
- Identify
the methods used in fetal assessment surveillance interpretation.
- Discuss
appropriate interventions for identified abnormal findings during
maternal/fetal assessment.
- Recognize
maternal/fetal responses that indicate appropriate responses to nursing
interventions.
- Identify
abnormal physiological changes indicating obstetrical complications in maternal
and or fetal assessment.
- Discuss
appropriate nursing interventions, related to course of treatment for selected
obstetrical complications.
- Identify
the characteristics and phases of labor.
- Describe
the characteristics of uteroplacental physiology.
- Recognize
psychosocial concerns that affect the laboring patient.
- Recognize
the variables in the labor process that require obstetrical procedures and the
effect on the maternal/fetus/newborn.
- Discuss
alternatives to natural childbirth with nursing interventions and
maternal/fetus/newborn implications.
- Describe
the normal physiological changes during the post-partum/newborn period.
- Describe
the most common post-partum complications.
- Discuss
nursing interventions to prevent/minimize complications.
- Discuss
physiological changes that occur with neonatal adaptation to extrauterine life.
- Define
factors that inhibit adaptation to extrauterine life.
- Discuss
continuing assessments, interventions and documentation required for continuity
of care.
- Discuss
ethical principles and legal issues surrounding the maternal/fetal/neonatal
dyad.