SCHOOL OF HEALTH AND ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES

Nursing Department

SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING 1 (CLINICAL AREA)

Name: _______________________________________ Group: _____ Date:________

Answer the following:

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

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

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 _____________________________________________________________

2. Nursing Theory _____________________________________________________________
3. Nursing Research _____________________________________________________________
4. Evidence-Based Practice _______________________________________________________
5. Birth Rate _____________________________________________________________
6. Fertility Rate _____________________________________________________________
7. Fetal Death _____________________________________________________________
8. Neonatal Death _____________________________________________________________
9. Infant Mortality _____________________________________________________________
10. Child Mortality _____________________________________________________________
11. Maternal Mortality _______________________________________________________

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

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