Clinical Project Learning Contract: Maternal Child Nursing Course

This document presents a student's learning contract for a clinical project in Maternal Child Nursing. The project focuses on providing proper healthcare to childbearing women, viewing birth as a natural life event, and extending care to the entire family. The learning objectives include using the nursing process, analyzing legal and ethical issues, demonstrating therapeutic communication, utilizing referral processes, identifying medications and their side effects, proposing contraception methods, describing maternal body changes, and understanding social, economic, and cultural factors. The student plans to use the Gibbs reflective cycle for analysis, consult nursing consultants, and utilize literature materials. Evaluation will involve discussions, audio-visual materials, online tests, and self-evaluation, with findings documented in an essay. The project aims to enhance the student's professional and human skills to become a proficient maternal child nurse.

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Learning Contract on Maternal Child Nursing
Student’s Name
Name of the Institution

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Description of the event and the objectives
Maternal-child nursing is a specialty in nursing which involves provision of proper health care to
child baring women. Marternal-child nursing views the process of birth as a naturally occurring
life event rather than a normal medical phenomenon. The specialty thus entails provision of
prenatal care to expectant mothers as well as health care to mothers and their newborn babies.
Maternal-childnursing also extends to the whole family. Marternal child nursing will provide me
with essential skills in roles associated with management of high risk pregnancies. The skills
gained will be vital in assisting mothers during their hospital stay (Hooker, 2015).
The learning objectives include
• To use the process of nursing as a framework for the development and implementation
of a plan of care for mothers and their respective families.
•To analyse legal ethical as well as ethical issues applicable to the child bearing family
•To demonstrate an understanding of therapeutic communication methods to nurture
positive relationship between the nurse, family as well as the infant
•To utilize the referral process to aid in meeting the needs of the infant as well as the
mother.
•To identify the various drugs administered during the various stages of pregnancy as
well as their side effects.
•To propose available methods of contraception as well as their advantages and
disadvantages.

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•To identify as well as describe changes undergone by the maternal body during
pregnancy.
•To acquire knowledge on the impact of social, economic as well as cultural factors on
potential mothers.
Feelings/ Thoughts
I will employ the Gibbs reflective cycle in assessing my experiences, feelings and thoughts about this
particular field in the nursing profession. This conceptual reflective framework will enable me to
describe, analyze and evaluate experiences in my profession (OAKES & BAKER, 1991).Additionally,
the Gibb’s reflective cycle will allow me to put my experiences into practices by allowing my reflective
process to inform my practice.
Analysis
Nursing consultants in the field of maternal child nursing will be vital in helping analyze the
various issues concerning maternal health care provision. Additionally a legal nurse consultant
will be required to offer legal advice on legal concerns applicable to the child bearing family as
well as practitioners in the maternal child nursing profession. The consultant will also help me
analyze various case studies which will improve my understanding of the various legal concepts
in the nursing profession. The nursing handbook will also aid in carrying out the project by
providing me with the guidelines pertaining the project. Literature materials such as Maternal
and Child Health Nursing: Care of the Childbearing and Childrearing Family will also be
relevant in this particular nursing specialty
Evaluation

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I will engage in discussions with classmates in order to gauge my level of knowledge. .
Audio visual materials would also be a good addition. Additionally, I will try out online tests on
maternal nursing as well as carry out self-evaluation tests. To complete the project, I will
document my findings in a detailed essay outlining what I have learnt in the course of the
project.
Conclusion
Maternal child nursing is a field that requires the practitioner to employ professional as well as
human skills in daily operation (Elliott, 2002).A nurse in this field is therefore required to have
top notch social skills to be able to relate with patients in need of maternal care. I believe that the
above project will make me a very proficient nurse in my area of specialty.

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References
Elliott, D. (2002). Kangaroo Care. MCN, the American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing,
27(6), 357. Doi: 10.1097/00005721-200211000-00016
Hooker, L. (2015). Maternal, child and family health nursing. An Introduction to Community
and Primary Health Care, 240-251. doi:10.1017/9781316711873.017
OAKES, D. F., & BAKER, K. (1991). Neonatal/Pediatric Respiratory Care. MCN, The
American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, 16(6), 332. doi:10.1097/00005721-
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Shannon E. Perry & Marilyn J. Hockenberry & Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk & David
Wilson. (2017). Study Guide for Maternal Child Nursing Care,.