Healthcare Reflection on Visiting a Maternal and Child Health Nurse

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Reflection on visiting a maternal and child health nurse
It is true that arrival of new baby brings several differences in the life of a person by bringing
new joys as well as some challenges. Before providing any type of service, she asked me few
things such as educational status, women’s autonomy, religion, and birth order, as well as
accessibility factors (Duffee et al, 2017). This information was considered important as the
healthcare centre communicate accordingly. They also conducted the necessary physical
health check-up in order to known the health status of me. I as a mother visited a maternal
and child health nurse for consulting her regarding my health conditions and precautions that
I have to make after pregnancy. My child health nurse proved to be great source of support.
Child health nurse was registered nurse with her qualification in family and child health
nursing. Before going for the consultation, I took the appointment in order to get the best
service. She suggested me several things such as regular health check-ups for the baby to
assess the growth and development. Before this check-up, I was not known with the
importance of regular health check-up. She also told me to keep the extra care when it comes
to getting baby to sleep, breastfeeding, immunisation, and support if I feel emotional or
anxious, supporting the referral for postnatal depression or anxiety, as well as washing the
baby (Sandner, Cornelissen, Jungmann and Herrmann, 2018).
Social model of health is said to be the conceptual framework that should be practised by
different individuals. Biomedical model of health is practised only health and doctors
professionals. As compare to this, social model of health includes the preventive measures
and biomedical medical includes inly diagnosis, treatment, and cure of disease. The maternal
and child health care however includes the social model of health.
After this, the team has designed three modules by targeting specific areas. Firstly, they had
given emphasis on creating less chaos at home by helping me with the children’s eating and
sleeping. The second area was related to supporting my own emotional interaction with the
child. The third area was home learning environment in which they taught to support the
parents by introducing the regular education play, reading, as well as some other learning
activities at home (Susanto, 2018).
My experience at maternal and child health nurse was positive and helping. She gave me the
necessary information regarding advice and support related to different topics such as child
health, development and learning, parenting, family wellbeing and health, safety as well as