NUR 323- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 68 pages long!)
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Chapter 1: traditional and community nursing care for women, families and children: factors shaping comtemporary family and children health nursing: Multiple cultures, scientific and technological advances, consumer access to health related information (internet, mass media), rising healthcare costs. Shift from hospital based care to community based care. Diverse cultures impact healthcare systems: ethnocentrism. Recent shift to shared experience of transcending/controlling health threat. Circular: motivate family to health promotion, maintenance and restoration: nursing aesthetics. Transformative, spiral process: beginning: threat, middle: relationship building of trust/connection, future: experiencing new possibility for health change/outcomes. Changing demands and demographics: engaging transpersonal care, social and technological advances, family structure, function and definition. Family centered care: nurse as facilitator, assists family in making informed choices toward outcome of patient/family, cultural sensitivity, cultural competency, community health map. Assess family stucutre, function and support network. Chapter 16: caring for the women experiencing complications during the postpartum period. Blood loss >500ml post vaginal birth or >1000 ml post c/s.
