8 ROLES AND

RESPONSIBILITIES OF MCN
Prepared by
ARACELIFLORES SURAT, MAN
NCM 107 INSTRUCTOR
8 Roles and responsibilities of
MCN
1. CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST
2. CASE MANAGER
3. NURSE PRACTITIONER
4. WOMENS’S HEALTH NURSE
PRACTITIONER

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5. PEDIATRIC NURSE PRACTITIONER
6. NEONATAL NURSE PRACTITIONER
7. FAMILY NURSE PRACTITIONER
8. CERTIFIED NURSE-MIDWIFE
Clinical nurse practioner
◻ Nurses prepared at the master’s or doctorate degree
level
◻ Serve as role models, researchers, teachers of quality
nursing care
✔ Could be an instrumental in helping a primary nurse
organize care of infants and meeting with the parents to
help them accept what is happening

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❑ Act as consultants in their area of expertise
✔ Neonatal nurse specialists
❑ manage the care of infants at birth and at intensive care
settings
❑ provide follow-up care to ensure that the newborn is well
✔ Childbirth educators
❑ teach families about normal birth
❑ Teach how to prepare for labor and births.
✔ Lactation consultants
❑ educate women about breastfeeding a
❑ provide support while they learn how to do it.

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✔ Genetic nurse counselors
❑ consult with families about patterns of inheritance
❑ offer support to families with a child who has inherited
genetic disorder
Case manager
◻ A graduate level nurse
◻ Supervises a group of patients from the time they
enter a health care setting until they are discharged
from the setting
◻ Monitor the effectiveness, cost and satisfaction of

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their health care
◻ They help prevent fragmentation of care
◻ Ensure that continuity of care and feeling of
medical home are included in care
Nurse Practitioner
◻ Nurses educated at the master’s or doctoral degree
◻ Recent advances in technology and research

Doctor of nursing practice programs- designed to

prepare nurse practitioners with the highest level of

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practice expertise integrated with the ability to
translate scientific knowledge into complex clinical
interventions.
Women’s health nurse practitioner
◻ Has advanced study in the promotion of health and
prevention of illness in women.
◻ Educate women about their bodies and sharing
them methods to prevent illness
◻ They care for women with illnesses such as STI

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◻ Counsel women about reproductive life planning
◻ Help women to remain well so that they enter
pregnancy in good health and maintain their health
throughout life.
Pediatric nurse practitioner
◻ Is a nurse prepared with extensive skills in physical
assessment, interviewing and well child counselling and
care.
◻ Adminster any immunizations needed
◻ Offers anticipatory guidance
◻ Arranges a return appointment for the next well-child
check-up

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◻ If the child has common illness(IDA):
❑ Orders necessary laboratory tests
❑ Prescribed appropriate drugs for therapy
o If the hild has major illness
❑ Consult to a pediatrician
Neonatal nurse practioner
◻ Is an advanced practice role for nurses who are skilled
in the care of newborns both well and ill.
◻ May work in level 1, 2 and 3 newborn nurseries,
neonatal follow-up clinics or physician groups.
◻ Responsibilities:
❑ Managing and caring for newborns in intensive care
unit

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❑ Conducting normal newborn assessments and physical
examinations
❑ Providing high-risk follow-up discharge planning
❑ Transporting ill infants to different care settings
Family nurse practitioner
◻ Is an advanced practice role that provides health care not
only to women and children but also to the family as a
whole.
◻ Can provide prenatalcare for women with uncomplicated
pregnancy
◻ Takes the health and pregnancy history
◻ Performs physical and obstetric examinations

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◻ Orders appropriate diagnostic and laboratory tests
◻ Plans continued care throughout pregnancy and for the
family
◻ Monitor the family to promote health and optimal family
functioning during health aand illness
Certified nurse-midwife
◻ Is an individual educated in two disciplines of nursing
and midwifery
◻ licensed according to the requirements
◻ Assisting women with pregnancy and childbearing
◻ Assumes full responsibility for the care and
management of women with uncomplicated

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pregnancies
◻ Makes birth an unforgetable family event
◻ Helps to ensure a healthy outcome for both mother and
child.
8 ROLES and
RESPONSIBILITIES OF MCN
Prepared by
ARACELI FLORES SURAT,MAN
NCM 107 Instructor