COURSE
GUIDE
NSC 309
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH NURSING I
Course Team V.F. Hanson, Joel O. Aluko, O.Adebimpe Fatile,
Christy Adeoye, Tosin Odungide-Essien (Course
Writer)
Dr O.O. Irinoye, Mrs Victoria Hanson (Course
Editors)
Mrs Victoria Hanson (Course Coordinator)
NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA
,NSC 309 COURSE GUIDE
© 2018 by NOUN Press
National Open University of Nigeria
Headquarters
University Village
Plot 91, Cadastral Zone
Nnamdi Azikiwe Expressway
Jabi, Abuja
Lagos Office
14/16 Ahmadu Bello Way
Victoria Island, Lagos
e-mail:
URL: www.nou.edu.ng
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, in any
form or by any means, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Printed 2018
ISBN: 978-978-8521-06-8
ii
,NSC 309 COURSE GUIDE
CONTENTS PAGE
General Introduction iv
Course Overview iv
Course Aim v
Course Objectives v
Doing the Course vi
Course Requirement and Expectations of Learners vi
Number and Places of Meeting vii
Discussion Forum vii
Course Evaluation vii
Grading Criteria viii
Grading Scale viii
Schedule of Assignments with Dates ix
Equipment and Software Needed to Access Course ix
Reference Textbooks ix
iii
, NSC 309 COURSE GUIDE
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Hello, we are happy to have you doing NSC 309 – Maternal and Child
Health Nursing (MCH) I. You must have taken courses in Maternal
Child Health Nursing in your basic School of Nursing/School of
Midwifery. This course will expand your scope of knowledge and
update you with current trends in the care of women during pregnancy,
labour, puerperium and the care of the newborn. Practical sessions will
expose you to use of new technologies in the care of the mother and
child.
Over a period of 15 weeks in the first semester of your third year (300
level), you are going to learn more about providing quality care to
pregnant women throughout the ante-natal, intra natal, post natal
periods. You will also acquire better skills in caring for the newborn.
This course is pre-requisite for Maternal and Child Health Nursing II
and has to be learnt along with the others nursing courses in performing
your professional roles and in utilizing the new learning to improve
your practice.
Maternal and Child Health Nursing I is a six (6) credits unit course for
the students in the Bachelor of Nursing Science degree programme. The
course is made up of 7 modules with 15 study units. It is important that
you register for the course at the beginning of the Semester. Doing the
course will help improve your competence for evidence based
midwifery practice, in caring for the mother and child within family
framework in or outside the hospital settings.
This Course Guide will give you essential information about the course
to help you plan to do well in the course. It is important that you read,
master and utilize the information in the course guide.
COURSE OVERVIEW
Maternal and Child Health Nursing (MCHN) I is the first in the series of
four courses in a nursing specialty, Maternal and Child Health Nursing
and Midwifery Practice. This first course focuses on basic aspects of
Midwifery. The course updates your knowledge on applied anatomy and
physiology in reproduction and provides for the acquisition of basic
professional proficiencies and decorum necessary for caring for families
throughout the entire reproductive cycle. Wherever necessary, relevant
examples in form of illustrations and illustrative diagrams are given for
better understanding of the subject of discourse.
Maternal and Child Health Nursing (MCHN) focuses on the delivery of
professional quality health care that recognises, focus on and help in
iv
GUIDE
NSC 309
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH NURSING I
Course Team V.F. Hanson, Joel O. Aluko, O.Adebimpe Fatile,
Christy Adeoye, Tosin Odungide-Essien (Course
Writer)
Dr O.O. Irinoye, Mrs Victoria Hanson (Course
Editors)
Mrs Victoria Hanson (Course Coordinator)
NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA
,NSC 309 COURSE GUIDE
© 2018 by NOUN Press
National Open University of Nigeria
Headquarters
University Village
Plot 91, Cadastral Zone
Nnamdi Azikiwe Expressway
Jabi, Abuja
Lagos Office
14/16 Ahmadu Bello Way
Victoria Island, Lagos
e-mail:
URL: www.nou.edu.ng
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, in any
form or by any means, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Printed 2018
ISBN: 978-978-8521-06-8
ii
,NSC 309 COURSE GUIDE
CONTENTS PAGE
General Introduction iv
Course Overview iv
Course Aim v
Course Objectives v
Doing the Course vi
Course Requirement and Expectations of Learners vi
Number and Places of Meeting vii
Discussion Forum vii
Course Evaluation vii
Grading Criteria viii
Grading Scale viii
Schedule of Assignments with Dates ix
Equipment and Software Needed to Access Course ix
Reference Textbooks ix
iii
, NSC 309 COURSE GUIDE
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Hello, we are happy to have you doing NSC 309 – Maternal and Child
Health Nursing (MCH) I. You must have taken courses in Maternal
Child Health Nursing in your basic School of Nursing/School of
Midwifery. This course will expand your scope of knowledge and
update you with current trends in the care of women during pregnancy,
labour, puerperium and the care of the newborn. Practical sessions will
expose you to use of new technologies in the care of the mother and
child.
Over a period of 15 weeks in the first semester of your third year (300
level), you are going to learn more about providing quality care to
pregnant women throughout the ante-natal, intra natal, post natal
periods. You will also acquire better skills in caring for the newborn.
This course is pre-requisite for Maternal and Child Health Nursing II
and has to be learnt along with the others nursing courses in performing
your professional roles and in utilizing the new learning to improve
your practice.
Maternal and Child Health Nursing I is a six (6) credits unit course for
the students in the Bachelor of Nursing Science degree programme. The
course is made up of 7 modules with 15 study units. It is important that
you register for the course at the beginning of the Semester. Doing the
course will help improve your competence for evidence based
midwifery practice, in caring for the mother and child within family
framework in or outside the hospital settings.
This Course Guide will give you essential information about the course
to help you plan to do well in the course. It is important that you read,
master and utilize the information in the course guide.
COURSE OVERVIEW
Maternal and Child Health Nursing (MCHN) I is the first in the series of
four courses in a nursing specialty, Maternal and Child Health Nursing
and Midwifery Practice. This first course focuses on basic aspects of
Midwifery. The course updates your knowledge on applied anatomy and
physiology in reproduction and provides for the acquisition of basic
professional proficiencies and decorum necessary for caring for families
throughout the entire reproductive cycle. Wherever necessary, relevant
examples in form of illustrations and illustrative diagrams are given for
better understanding of the subject of discourse.
Maternal and Child Health Nursing (MCHN) focuses on the delivery of
professional quality health care that recognises, focus on and help in
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