2025
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 stages of labor (TP) and puerperal period (PP)
Skills:
• Understands the obstetric dilemma and the altriciality in the evolution of the species
• Understands the process of PT and birth in an institutional context and the process surrounding PP and care of the newborn (NB) in the transition to the family environment
• Communicates the concepts of TP Stadiums and Puerperium
• Interpret measures and models of care in normal TP / health deviation stages related to mechanical and dynamic complications
• Integrates models of assistance in the PP in the transition to the home
• Understands the physical and psychological disturbances of the woman during the PP
• Describes ways of evaluating fetal well-being during PT and fetal-NB transition
• It integrates the guidelines on the care to the NB in the transition to the home
• Communicates the reasoning of simulated maternity and maternity assistance plans
• To acquire knowledge about the care of the woman / family during the stages of labor (TP) and puerperal period (PP)
Skills:
• Understands the obstetric dilemma and the altriciality in the evolution of the species
• Understands the process of PT and birth in an institutional context and the process surrounding PP and care of the newborn (NB) in the transition to the family environment
• Communicates the concepts of TP Stadiums and Puerperium
• Interpret measures and models of care in normal TP / health deviation stages related to mechanical and dynamic complications
• Integrates models of assistance in the PP in the transition to the home
• Understands the physical and psychological disturbances of the woman during the PP
• Describes ways of evaluating fetal well-being during PT and fetal-NB transition
• It integrates the guidelines on the care to the NB in the transition to the home
• Communicates the reasoning of simulated maternity and maternity assistance plans
Contents
• Bipedalism in the reproductive architecture
• Female pelvis. Caldwell and Moloy nomenclature. Pelvic floor. Internal/external soft channel.
• Concepts Labor (TP) and Puerperal Period (PP)
• Factors and mechanisms of TP. Contraction, dilation, erasure
• Foetal Static. Presentation, Situation, Attitude, Variety
• Cardinal movements
• Maternal and foetal adaptation to PT
• Initial evaluation: Birth Plan; Admission of parturient and cohabiting-significant
• Care in the 1st Stage of the TP. Assessment of PT progress and maternal-fetal well-being. Pain relief.
• Care in the 2nd Stage of the TP. Cephalic and pelvic presentation technique.
• Care in the 3rd Stage of the TP.
• Preterm and post-term TP. Mechanical and dynamic dystocias. Obstetric Emergencies
• Systemic changes in foetus-new-born
• Nursing care. Early contact and food. Characteristics of normal NB and health deviations. Resuscitation of the RN.
• Dyad care in PP. Education on the way home
• Female pelvis. Caldwell and Moloy nomenclature. Pelvic floor. Internal/external soft channel.
• Concepts Labor (TP) and Puerperal Period (PP)
• Factors and mechanisms of TP. Contraction, dilation, erasure
• Foetal Static. Presentation, Situation, Attitude, Variety
• Cardinal movements
• Maternal and foetal adaptation to PT
• Initial evaluation: Birth Plan; Admission of parturient and cohabiting-significant
• Care in the 1st Stage of the TP. Assessment of PT progress and maternal-fetal well-being. Pain relief.
• Care in the 2nd Stage of the TP. Cephalic and pelvic presentation technique.
• Care in the 3rd Stage of the TP.
• Preterm and post-term TP. Mechanical and dynamic dystocias. Obstetric Emergencies
• Systemic changes in foetus-new-born
• Nursing care. Early contact and food. Characteristics of normal NB and health deviations. Resuscitation of the RN.
• 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.
- Continuous evaluation through frequencies, individual and group work. 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: Report of assistance plan on laboratory practice.
- The normal and recourse examinations as regulated by the UÉ
- Continuous evaluation through frequencies, individual and group work. 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: Report of assistance plan on laboratory practice.
- The normal and recourse examinations as regulated by the UÉ
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.
â 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%
â The normal and recourse exams as regulated by UÉ
â 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%
â The normal and recourse exams as regulated by UÉ
Teaching Staff
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