HEALTH TEACHING PLAN FOR

UNANG YAKAP

ASSESSMENT INTERVENTIONS PURPOSE TEACHING EVALUATION

 Assess if there is a  Place the patient  This allows both  UNANG YAKAP  You and the
barrier between in a noise free you and the mother will be
you and the room where you mother to fully comfortable and
patient in can provide understand and will be able to
providing health comfort and exchange understand the
teaching such as privacy while thoughts of what health teaching
noise, lack of providing health the mother wants specifically for
privacy, deficiency teaching. to happen before, newborn care
in hearing or lack during, and after practice of Unang
of interest labor. If the Yakap
mother shows
lack of interest,
explain to her
why this health
teaching is
necessary to fully
understand

 Establish rapport  This can be  This allows us to  Patient-Nurse

with achieved by establish trust, relationship has
clients/significant Effective interest, empathy, been attained
others ensuring a communication acceptance,
positive working skills and uses positive regards,
relationship professional skills self-awareness,
and knowledge to and therapeutic
effectively identify purposes
and solve health
problems
holistically by
 utilizing the
nursing process

 Identify the  Provide health  This allows the  What is Unang  The mother
patient’s teaching about mother to Yakap? understands the
knowledge about unang yakap or perform unang Unang Yakap is the importance of
Unang Yakap add additional yakap either both campaign of the DOH, in Unang Yakap and
information and CS or NSD. The cooperation with the also allows her to
benefits of unang only exception is WHO, launched in 2009, give specific
yakap when the mother, to adopt Essential instructions to the
the baby or both Intrapartum Newborn healthcare team
is in distress Care (EINC) in the responsible for
Philippines. EINC is a her labor about
series of time-bound and performing unang
evidenced-based yakap or any
interventions in caring for specific
newborn babies and their instructions she
mothers. Through the wants to attain
EINC protocol, is potential before, during,
to decrease newborn and after labor
death by at least half

 What are the

benefits of Unang
Yakap?
Unang Yakap is done in 4
steps: first is ‘Immediate
and through drying of the
newborn’ this is done for
30 seconds to 1 minute
that develops warmth for
the newborn and
stimulates breathing.
Second, ‘Early skin-to-skin
 contact between mother
and newborn’ prevents
hypothermia, infection,
and hypoglycemia. Third,
‘Properly-timed cord
clamping and cutting’
prevents anemia and
protects against brain
hemorrhage in premature
newborns. Lastly, ‘Non-
separation of newborn
and mother for early
breastfeeding’ is done
continuously, it protects
infants from dying form
infection.
 Additional
information about
Unang Yakap
Unang yakap or early skin-
to-skin contact increases
the colonization with
protective bacterial flora
and improved
breastfeeding initiation
and exclusivity. Prior to
giving birth, the mother
can give clear instructions
that she wants to perform
Unang Yakap immediately
after the baby is born

Prepared by: Samantha Renei E. Sanchez BSN 2A Group 8