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Demonstrate critical thinking skills through the framework of the
nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care
to meet the physical, psychosocial, cultural, and learning needs of
the childbearing family including the normal and high risk obstetrical
and infant clients. (I, II, III)
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Perform safe and competent nursing care by applying principles of
normal physiology and pathophysiology for the nursing care of normal
and high risk obstetrical and infant clients. (I, II)
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Provide safe and competent nursing care based on specific needs of the
childbearing family relative to ethnic background and cultural
heritage, psychosocial status, and developmental level of the family
with emphasis on the pregnant adolescent. (I, III)
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Utilize therapeutic communication skills during interactions with the
childbearing family and appropriate communication skills when
interacting with members of the health care team. (VI)
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Utilize scientific principles to safely and competently perform
nursing interventions within the legal and ethical boundaries of
nursing practice. (I, IV)
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Apply principles of pharmacology to the safe and competent
administration of medications to maternal and infant clients. (III,
IV, V)
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Collaborate with members of the health care team to provide client
teaching from admission through discharge to meet the learning needs
of the childbearing family, specific to concepts of health promotion,
health maintenance, safe maternal and infant care, and infant growth
and development. (I, III, IV, VI)
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Demonstrate personal and professional growth through documented
self-evaluation of learning and clinical practice. (VII)
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