NURS 6551:Week 8: Obstetrics, Part 2 Essay Assignment Paper

This week, as you continue focusing on obstetrics, you examine health promotion during pregnancy. You also consider health promotion methods for select patient populations and design educational media for health promotion during pregnancy.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this week, students will:

• Evaluate health promotion methods for select patient populations
• Understand and apply key terms, principles, and concepts related to obstetrics
• Evaluate health problems common during pregnancy

Learning Resources

Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

Required Readings

Schuiling, K. D., & Likis, F. E. (2017). Women’s gynecologic health (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.

 

• • Review Chapter 30, “Diagnosis of Pregnancy and Overview of Prenatal Care” (pp. 781-797)

This chapter examines the diagnosis of pregnancy, routine prenatal care, and patient education strategies for pregnant women.

Tharpe, N. L., Farley, C., & Jordan, R. G. (2017). Clinical practice guidelines for midwifery & women’s health (5th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers.

 

• • Review: Chapter 2, “Care of the Woman During Pregnancy” (pp. 49-90)

This chapter explores the care of women during pregnancy, including common health conditions and health promotion.

 

• • Chapter 3, “Care of the Pregnant Woman with Prenatal Conditions” (pp. 93-154)

This chapter examines the care of women who suffer from complications during pregnancy and focuses on interventions that maximize health outcomes for the mother and baby.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2011). During pregnancy. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/pregnancy/during.html

 

This website emphasizes the need for health promotion during pregnancy. Implications of smoking, alcohol, infections, and environmental exposures are explored.

Optional Resources

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2012b). Women’s health. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/women/

National Institutes of Health. (2012). Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH). Retrieved from http://orwh.od.nih.gov/

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2012a). Womenshealth.gov. Retrieved from http://www.womenshealth.gov/

Discussion: Health Promotion During Pregnancy

When caring for pregnant women, it is important to care for the whole person. This means you not only manage the pregnancy and treat conditions, but you also promote healthy behaviors and good lifestyle choices. Through health promotion, you can help to ensure the safety of both the mother and the baby. Your role in health promotion is to identify health risks that might result in pregnancy complications, educate patients on these risks, and provide the necessary support to help patients mitigate these risks. In this Discussion, you examine implications of drug use, alcohol consumption, dietary habits, and environmental exposures during pregnancy, and you consider ways to educate pregnant women about such risks.

To prepare:

• Review Chapter 2 of the Tharpe et al. text and the article from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in this week’s Learning Resources.
• Consider lifestyle changes that pregnant women must make in relation to smoking, drinking, taking drugs (legal and illegal), eating habits, and caring for pets. Select one of these topics to be the focus of an educational media piece you would create for health promotion during pregnancy.
• Think about the patient population that you treat within your practicum setting. Consider ways to educate these patients on health promotion as it relates to the topic you selected. Then, consider the types of educational pieces, such as flyers, posters, public service announcements, or other media, that might be most effective with your patient population.

By Day 3

Post a detailed description of the educational media piece you would create for health promotion during pregnancy. Explain why you selected the particular topic, as well as why you selected the type of media and how and why it is suitable for your patient population.

Note: If you have an educational media piece that you would like to share, attach the file to your Discussion posting.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.

By Day 6

Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days in both of the ways listed below. Respond to colleagues who selected different case studies than you did.

• Provide constructive feedback or pose questions to your colleagues about the effectiveness of their selected educational media with their patient population.
• Explain whether your colleagues’ media pieces would be effective with patients at your current Practicum setting. If so, explain why. If not, explain how you would revise the media to reach your patient population.

Note: For this Discussion, you are required to complete your initial post before you will be able to view and respond to your colleagues’ postings. Begin by clicking on the “Post to Discussion Question” link and then select “Create Thread” to complete your initial post. Remember, once you click on Submit, you cannot delete or edit your own posts, and you cannot post anonymously. Please check your post carefully before clicking on Submit!