VNRS 182: Obstetrical-Gynecological Nursing

• Identify normal and abnormal conditions of prenatal, labor, delivery, and postnatal patients and relate conditions or diseases to therapeutic interventions and care of patients.
• Identify normal and abnormal conditions of the gynecological patient and relate diseases to therapeutic interventions and care.
• Define safe, ethical and legal principles in compliance with the Nurse Practice Act.
• Describe how to perform a beginning level assessment, care of, and documentation for women with prenatal, labor, delivery, post-partum, and newborn complications.
• Plan care of obstetrical/gynecological, and newborn patients by integrating basic and advance care including the administration of medications.
• Use the nursing process to perform basic and advanced nursing skills in a clinical and simulated setting to the obstetrical/gynecological patient and newborn.

1. Structure and Function of the Reproductive System
2. Fetal development
3. Maternal adaptation during pregnancy
4. Labor process
5. Pain management during labor and birth
6. Nursing care during labor and birth
7. The postpartum woman
8. Assisted delivery and cesarean birth
9. Nursing assessment of newborn transition
10. Nursing care of the normal newborn
11. The newborn nutrition
12. Labor at risk
13. Postpartum woman at risk
14. The newborn at risk 
    1. Gestational and acquired
    2. Congenital disorders
15. Prenatal care
16. Pregnancy at risk
17. The nurse's role in a changing MCH care environment 
18. Family centered and community based maternal and pediatric nursing
19. Special issues of Women's Health Care and Reproduction   

Theory will be applied in the lab/clinical setting.