2024

Nursing Care at Childbirth and Puerperium

Name: Nursing Care at Childbirth and Puerperium
Code: ENF13443M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Nursing

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

Presentation

Methodology and themes gave contributes to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

Goal:
• To acquire knowledge about the care of the woman / family during the Labor and Birth Stages (LBS) and puerperal period (PP)
Skills:
• Understands the obstetric dilemma and the altriciality of the specie, the process of LBS in an institutional context and the process surrounding PP and care of the newborn (NB) in the transition to the family
• Applies measures and assistencial models on normal LBS, and health deviant situations related to mechanical and dynamic complications
Applies care models in the LBS and guidelines on care for the NB in the transition to the home
Knows how to apply knowledge and understanding in the ways of assessing fetal well-being during LBS and fetal-NB transition and the physical and psychological disturbances of women during PP
Communicates the reasoning of simulated care plans for parturients, postpartum women and unborn children and the concepts of LBS and PP in a clear and unambiguous way
Demonstrates autonomous self-learning skills

Contents

• Bipedalism in the reproductive architecture
• Female pelvis. Caldwell and Moloy nomenclature. Pelvic floor. Internal/external soft channel.
• Concepts Labor and Birth Stages (LBS) and Puerperal Period (PP)
• Factors and mechanisms of LBS
• Foetal Static.
• Cardinal movements
• Maternal and foetal adaptation to PT
• Initial evaluation: Interpreting Birth Plan; Admission of parturient and cohabiting-significant
• Care in the 1st Stage of the Labor. Assessment of LBS progress and maternal-fetal well-being. Assistance on pain relief.
• Care in the 2nd Stage of the Labor. Cephalic and pelvic presentation technique.
• Care in the 3rd Stage of the Labor.
• Preterm and post-term Labour. Mechanical and dynamic dystocia’s. Obstetric Emergencies
• Systemic changes in foetus-new-born
• Nursing care. Early contact and food. Characteristics of normal NB and health deviations. Resuscitation of the NB.
• Dyad care in PP. Education on the way home

Teaching Methods

Teaching methodologies include lectures, problem-solving proposals, laboratory practices. The personal and professional development of the students is stimulated, based on a work of reflection, critical inquiry and continuous analysis. The individual and group tutorial orientation is also applied towards the acquisition of knowledge and skills. The theoretical sessions take place in the classroom. The practical sessions, referring to the procedures, take place in the laboratory. It will thus be possible for students to have the opportunity to anticipate, through role-playing, the care to be instituted in a real context.


Assessment

The students that choose continuous assessment will have three moments of individual assessment with resource to the accomplishment of two frequencies with the duration of 120 minutes each (60% weighting) and a laboratorial practice (40% weighting). To pass the course unit the student must have a minimum mark of 9.5 points. The mark in the curricular unit will be the average of the moments of evaluation. The student who does not perform all the moments of assessment automatically opts for the exam regime.

● Continuous evaluation through frequencies, individual practice simulation. The work proposed to the students and subject to evaluation from which a grade will be produced, is the following:
Exercise A: Frequency
Exercises B: practice simulation in laboratory
Final score = Exercise A75% + Exercise B 25%
● The normal and recourse exams as regulated by UÉ

Teaching Staff

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