2024

Nursing Care at Pregnancy

Name: Nursing Care at Pregnancy
Code: ENF13442M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Nursing

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

Encourage personal development and involve students in new teaching and learning tools, thus contributing in an interactive and musical way to achieve goals and competencies.

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

Goals:
Deepen Nursing knowledge related to the Pre-Natal period
Acquire skills to care for the woman inserted in the family / community during the prenatal.
Skills:
Show knowledge and skills to diagnose pregnancy and assess maternal-fetal well-being.
Shows, in a simulated context, the acquisition of skills to assess pregnancy, relate Health Education and lifestyles for a healthy pregnancy, learn about support measures to alleviate the discomforts of pregnancy, promote the birth plan.
Demonstrates the ability to integrate knowledge that allows cooperation with other professionals in the treatment of women with complications of pregnancy, with associated or concomitant pathology and in basic life support measures for women in critical situations
Integrates knowledge that will allow you to judge the situations of the prenatal period.
Demonstrate ability to communicate, succinctly and objectively

Contents

- Signs, symptoms and diagnosing a pregnancy.
- Physical and midwife assessment.
- Additional diagnosis exams, recommended by national standards.
- Development of the pregnancy, discomfort and uterine growth patterns.
- Nutritional needs during pregnancy.
- Medication and Vaccinations during pregnancy.
- Assessment of mother and baby well-being.
- Prebirth diagnosis.
- Techniques to relief discomfort during pregnancy
- Birth plan
- Health education and adopting healthy lifestyles.
- Risk factors during pregnancy.
- Addictive behaviours and pregnancy, namely smoking, alcohol and other drugs.
- Nursing intervention in complications during pregnancy and in urgent and emergency situations.

Teaching Methods

Teaching includes classroom training, case studies requiring research and reflection and laboratory exercises. Individual/group tutorials serve to complement the various teaching methods.
The assessment and development process takes into consideration all the objectives, competencies and course unit's programmed contente.
Continuous assessment with an exercise, in the format of attendance, and a work group. Quotation: individual work 60% and work group 40%
Students that fail to attend at least one of the assessment exercises must sit an exam.