2025
Maternal Health Nursing and Obstetrics
Name: Maternal Health Nursing and Obstetrics
Code: ENF14464L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Nursing
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Presentation
The UC allows the development of specific skills in the care of women and newborns, responding to the SDG agenda for 2030.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Goals:
- Understand the nursing care in the Preconception, Conception, Birth and Puerperium phases;
- Understanding nursing care for the newborn;
- Develop specific skills in caring for the woman and the newborn;
- Understand the care of women in menopause;
- Understanding care for women with gynecological pathology.
Skills:
- Know and show understanding of the pregnancy-puerperal cycle;
- Applies knowledge and understands the health process and Health changes in the pregnancy-puerperal cycle;
- Performs judgments with help and reveals ability to solve problems in nursing in simulated situations;
- Reveals skills that allow the communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in the area of maternal and midwifery health;
- Reveals self-learning ability.
- Understand the nursing care in the Preconception, Conception, Birth and Puerperium phases;
- Understanding nursing care for the newborn;
- Develop specific skills in caring for the woman and the newborn;
- Understand the care of women in menopause;
- Understanding care for women with gynecological pathology.
Skills:
- Know and show understanding of the pregnancy-puerperal cycle;
- Applies knowledge and understands the health process and Health changes in the pregnancy-puerperal cycle;
- Performs judgments with help and reveals ability to solve problems in nursing in simulated situations;
- Reveals skills that allow the communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in the area of maternal and midwifery health;
- Reveals self-learning ability.
Contents
Pre-conception period:
Path of nursing care in the pregnancy-puerperal cycle
Family Planning and Contraception
Medically assisted procreation
Abortion
Parental competencies
Prenatal period:
Fertilization and embryonic and fetal development
Rh incompatibility
Prenatal consultation
Physiological changes in pregnancy
Health deviations in the pregnancy process
Period of birth and postpartum
Pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods in labor
Nursing care in labor and delivery
Normal labor process Dystocic delivery
Process of distal birthing
Immediate baby care
Care in the process of adaptation to extra uterine life
Nursing evaluation of the new-born
Physiological changes of the puerperal period
Physiological and psychological complications of the puerperal period
Promoting self-care after high clinic
Breastfeeding
Post-conception period:
Conception of climacteric
Promoting health and well-being in climacteric and menopause
Path of nursing care in the pregnancy-puerperal cycle
Family Planning and Contraception
Medically assisted procreation
Abortion
Parental competencies
Prenatal period:
Fertilization and embryonic and fetal development
Rh incompatibility
Prenatal consultation
Physiological changes in pregnancy
Health deviations in the pregnancy process
Period of birth and postpartum
Pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods in labor
Nursing care in labor and delivery
Normal labor process Dystocic delivery
Process of distal birthing
Immediate baby care
Care in the process of adaptation to extra uterine life
Nursing evaluation of the new-born
Physiological changes of the puerperal period
Physiological and psychological complications of the puerperal period
Promoting self-care after high clinic
Breastfeeding
Post-conception period:
Conception of climacteric
Promoting health and well-being in climacteric and menopause
Teaching Methods
The teaching and learning methodologies will be developed through theoretical sessions and practical laboratory classes. They are student-centred and predominantly active and participatory, making use of exposition, reflection, questioning, and demonstration. Laboratory practical classes are conducted in small groups (8?10 students) to allow for the simultaneous integration of theoretical content as it is taught.
In the laboratory practical sessions, a case-based learning approach will be used, as it is recognised as an active method also applied across various fields of knowledge. This approach enables students to apply their knowledge to the analysis of real-life situations, promotes greater student engagement, encourages a deeper understanding of the content, and stimulates clinical reasoning.
In the laboratory practical sessions, a case-based learning approach will be used, as it is recognised as an active method also applied across various fields of knowledge. This approach enables students to apply their knowledge to the analysis of real-life situations, promotes greater student engagement, encourages a deeper understanding of the content, and stimulates clinical reasoning.
Assessment
For students who choose the continuous assessment system, the final grade for the course unit will result from the weighted average of the following assessment components:
Written Examination ? 60%
Laboratory Practical Work (PL) ? 40%
To pass the course unit, students must achieve a minimum mark of 9.5 (out of 20) in each of the assessment components.
Additionally, in order to obtain attendance for the course unit, students must have attended at least 75% of the scheduled Laboratory Practical classes (Article 105, paragraph 1 of the RAUE).
Students who do not achieve the minimum required marks will be subject to a final assessment, which may include:
Examination of the Theoretical Component and/or
Examination of the Practical Component.
Only students who have attended at least 75% of the Laboratory Practical classes are eligible to sit the Practical Component examination.
Written Examination ? 60%
Laboratory Practical Work (PL) ? 40%
To pass the course unit, students must achieve a minimum mark of 9.5 (out of 20) in each of the assessment components.
Additionally, in order to obtain attendance for the course unit, students must have attended at least 75% of the scheduled Laboratory Practical classes (Article 105, paragraph 1 of the RAUE).
Students who do not achieve the minimum required marks will be subject to a final assessment, which may include:
Examination of the Theoretical Component and/or
Examination of the Practical Component.
Only students who have attended at least 75% of the Laboratory Practical classes are eligible to sit the Practical Component examination.
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