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works
5. Demonstrate competency in gathering information, recording observations, and
analysing data
6. Work collaboratively to perform laboratory experiments
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College: NURSING Date: July
Course Titles: Human Anatomy and Physiology Length of Lesson: 4 hrs
Unit Topic/ Concept: Human Anatomy and Physiology
Instructor: Raul Niño V. Moran
Lesson Topic: Skeletal System
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PERFORMANCE TASKS:
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The students will be able to:
1. Utilize knowledge of anatomy and physiology in nursing case studies
2. Employ safe and appropriate measures in performing laboratory experiments
3. Appreciate ethical standards and moral principles in the study of human
anatomy and physiology
4. Utilize effective communication skills and good collegial relationships during
group works
5. Demonstrate competency in gathering information, recording observations,
and analysing data
6. Work collaboratively to perform laboratory experiments
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6. Work collaboratively to perform laboratory experiments
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behavior patterns of health 3. Diagram the four types of pelvis on
promotion during pregnancy and a poster. Illustrate to your class how
throughout their lives
the anatomy of the pelvis may
4. Anatomic structures of the female
body and demonstrate knowledge
accommodate or hamper the fetus
of how to appropriately intervene as it progresses through the birthing
to provide nursing process
5. Need to know of most signs 4. Visit a prenatal health care setting
indicating complications that might and select a patient in the third
occur toward the end of pregnancy trimester of her pregnancy who has
so that prompt interventions can
occur
been counseled and diagnosed as
having a pelvis incompetent for
delivery. Use your diagram as a tool
to help the family understand the
information discussed of the
expectant mothers’ pelvis
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2. Importance of reviewing the general self- 2. For each of the following
care needs of the pregnant woman, activities, discuss one
common discomforts encountered during concept that should be
pregnancy, and preparations for labor discussed with the
3. Use of the nursing process to plan and pregnant woman: bathing,
provide appropriate teaching for the breast care, perineal
woman throughout pregnancy hygiene, dressing, sexual
activity, exercise, sleep
and travel
3. Describe five categories of
potentially teratogenic
drugs
4. Discuss two instructions
the nurse should provide
to a pregnant woman who
will be working related to
all jobs, jobs requiring
standing or walking, and
jobs that require physical
exertion
5. Discuss how maternal
stress may have a
teratogenic effect
6. Prepare a teaching plan for
a working woman that
addresses methods for
maintaining adequate
nutrition and rest
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special needs woman to have decreased
4. Appropriate teachings related to nutritional nutritional stores during
health during pregnancy pregnancy?
3. Discuss two types of food
that should be avoided in
pregnancy? Why should
these foods be avoided?
4. Indicate the sources of the
following substances and
their significance for the
pregnant woman: protein,
calcium, fat, folic acid,
iodine, iron
5. Prepare a 24-hr recall
history using your own
nutritional intake. Assess
your dietary intake for
adequacy. What changes
would be necessary if you
were pregnant?
6. What are five common
foods serves at fast-food
restaurants that could be
eaten to meet nutritional
requirements? What are
five foods that would be
poor nutritional choices for
the pregnant woman?
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settings following birth settings:
3. Principles pertinent to providing guidance hospital, alternative birth
to parents who may choose to participate center, home birth
in an alternative birth method 3. What factors would cause
a woman to be considered
a good candidate for a
home birth?
4. What is considered to be
the main advantage of a
home birth?
5. State the expected
outcomes when teaching a
pregnant woman on how
to perform the following
exercises: abdominal
contraction, pelvic floor
contractions, and pelvic
rocking
6. Develop a teaching plan
for the techniques of
perineal exercises. Include
a proposed time schedule
for implementing the
exercises for a woman who
works from 8AM to 5PM
7. Outline the main features
of the popular Lamaze
method of birthing. What
behavioral characteristics
would you look for in the
family who would be most
appropriate for this
method?
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3. Nursing process explored to plan and 3. Describe the resulting
provide care throughout the stages of labor effect when a body part
other than the vertex
presents
4. Describe the process and
purpose of Leopold’s
maneuvers
5. Discuss the psychological
responses of a woman to
labor and the nurse’s role
6. Compare and contrast the
changes occurring in the
maternal pulse and blood
pressure with changes
occurring in the fetal pulse
and blood pressure during
contractions
7. Indicate the significance of
each of the following
abnormal fetal heart rate
patterns: fetal tachycardia,
fetal bradycardia, late
deceleration, variable
pattern, and sinusoidal
pattern
8. Prepare a teaching plan for
a woman in labor that
addresses methods for
maintain a maximum state
of comfort during the first
and second stages of labor
9. Chart the progression of a
woman in the active phases
of labor on commercial
graph forms or using a
partograph. Note if the
progression appears normal
or abnormal
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4. Plan nursing interventions to meet the needs and promote optimal outcomes
for a woman and her family during labor and birth
5. Implement nursing care for a family during labor such as teaching about the
stages of labor
6. Evaluate expected outcomes for achievement and effectiveness of care
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Students will understand the: 1. Discuss the significance of
1. Physiology and perception of pain during informing a woman about
labor and principles of pain management, the use of drugs and the
including pharmacologic methods and ultimate effect of the
support of the woman’s chosen technique various pain relief measures
for relaxation and prepared childbirth 2. Explain how knowledge
2. Use of nursing process to plan and provide regarding the labor and
comfort for the woman throughout labor delivery process might have
and delivery an impact on the pain
experienced during labor
3. Discuss the importance of
timing in the administration
of pain relief medications
during labor
4. Discuss the role that a
significant other might play
in facilitating pain relief
during the labor experience
5. Prepare a pain
management plan for a
woman in labor that
includes two non-
pharmacologic pain relief
measures and two medical
pain relief methods, with
nursing implications for
monitoring and prevention
of drug-related
complications
6. Prepare a checklist of the
priority assessments and
related nursing actions for
managing pain in each
stage of labor
7. Monitor a woman through
the entire labor process.
Note the methods used by
the woman and the health
care team to maintain a
maximum state of comfort
during the first and second
stages of labor
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labor and birth, including her ability to cope with it effectively
2. Formulate nursing diagnoses related to the effect of pain or pain management
during labor and birth
3. Establish expected outcome to meet the needs of a woman experiencing
discomfort during labor and birth
4. Plan nursing interventions to promote comfort during labor and birth such as
teaching about relaxation or breathing exercises
5. Implement common complementary and pharmacologic measures for pain
management during labor and birth
6. Evaluate expected outcomes for effectiveness and achievement of care
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UNDERSTANDING GOAL(S): ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S):
Students will understand the: 1. Briefly compare and
1. Physiologic and psychological care of contrast the taking-in,
the postpartal woman and her family taking-hold, and letting-go
2. Physiologic changes that occur after postpartal phases
childbirth and the emotional effects of 2. Explain the use of sitz bath
childbirth on the entire postpartal and ice packs in the care
family of the postpartal woman
3. Use of nursing process to plan and who had an episiotomy
provide care for the postpartal family 3. Describe the physiologic
changes that occur in the
indicated structures during
the postpartal period:
fundus, cervix, vagina
4. Write a teaching plan that
could be used to prepare
new parents for the
emotional and physiologic
changes occurring after
childbirth
5. What suggestions would
you make to a woman who
states she has “no time” to
perform muscle-
strengthening exercises
because of childcare and
home care responsibilities
but says she really wants
to get back in shape?
6. During a pediatric clinical
experience, perform
postpartal assessments on
two women and compare
findings related to the
physiologic and
psychological status of
each
7. Interview a woman and
her spouse (if possible)
during the immediate
postpartal period. Attempt
to identify signs that the
following are being
experienced:
abandonment,
disappointment, or
postpartal blues
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the changes during this period
4. Plan nursing care such as measures to aid uterine involution or encourage
bonding
5. Implement nursing care to aid the progression of physiologic and
psychological transitions occurring in a postpartal woman and family such
as teaching about breastfeeding
6. Evaluate outcome criteria for the achievement and effectiveness of care
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UNDERSTANDING GOAL(S): ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S):
Students will understand the: 1. Compare and contrast expected
1. Care of normal newborn at birth versus unexpected assessment
(immediate and routine) parameters of the newborn
2. Transition of the newborn 2. Illustrate the major steps of the
outside the womb initial nursing assessment of the
3. Cardiovascular changes that newborn
occur immediately after birth 3. Describe expected behavioral
4. Role of the liver in the characteristics of the newborn
newborn’s adaptation to 4. Define expected weights and
extrauterine life measures of the newborn
5. The difference of the expected 5. Identify respiratory and
and unexpected assessment cardiovascular adaptations that
parameters of the newborn occur as the newborn makes the
6. How each newborn reflex is transition to life outside the womb
elicited
STUDENT OBJECTIVES (Learning Outcomes):
1. Assess an infant for normal growth and development milestones
2. Formulate nursing diagnoses related to infant growth and
development and associated parental concerns
3. Identify expected outcomes to promote optimal infant growth and
development needs
4. Plan nursing care to meet an infant’s growth and development
needs, such as teaching parents to childproof their home
5. Implement nursing care related to normal growth and development
of an infant, such as encouraging eye/hand coordination
6. Evaluate expected outcomes for achievement and effectiveness of
care
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UNDERSTANDING GOAL(S): ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S):
Students will understand the: 1. Compare the advantages
1. Nutritional needs of the newborn and disadvantages of
2. Nutrients in breast milk and commercially breastfeeding for the
prepared formulas being evaluated and infant and mother
contrasted 2. What are some
3. Physiology of good nutrition for the growth appropriate measures to
and development of the newborn infant relieve breast
4. Assessment and evaluation of mother’s engorgement?
ability to feed the infant and the infant’s 3. State how the infant
response to nutritional intake should be properly placed
5. Nursing care for the mother and infant on the breast for feeding
using a nursing plan of care as a teaching 4. What event allows
tool progesterone levels to
drop and stimulates the
production of the
prolactin?
5. Design a teaching tool for
parents about the
techniques and safeguards
of feeding for breastfed
and bottlefed babies
6. Survey your community
for agencies that promote
infant nutrition and
parental education. After
compiling the list, inform
your clients of these
agencies before their
discharge
7. Review the nursing care
plans in your clinical areas
for a mother and infant
scheduled for discharge
planning at your hospital.
Note the information
pertinent to infant
nutrition. Exercise your
teaching skills by providing
this information to a
parent the day before
discharge. On the day of
discharge, assess the
effectiveness of your
teaching by interviewing
your client. Create our
own evaluation tool
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her and her infant
5. Help parents implement newborn feeding such as supporting a new mother
while breastfeeding
6. Evaluate expected outcomes for achievement and effectiveness of care
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evidence-based practice
- Integrate knowledge of growth and development with nursing
process to achieve quality maternal and child health nursing care
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temperament reactivity
pattern manifested by the
child in each of the nine
categories and evidence
that the parent has, or has
not, met the
developmental tasks of
parenting for the child’s
developmental stage
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Lesson Topic: NURSING CARE OF A FAMILY WITH AN INFANT
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STUDENT OBJECTIVES (Learning Outcomes):
The students will be able to:
1. Assess an infant for normal growth and development milestones
2. Formulate nursing diagnoses related to infant growth and development and
associated parental concerns
3. Identify expected outcomes to promote optimal infant growth and
development needs
4. Plan nursing care to meet an infant’s growth and development needs, such as
teaching parents to childproof their home
5. Implement nursing care related to growth and development of an infant, such
as encouraging eye/hand coordination
6. Evaluate expected outcomes for achievement and effectiveness of care
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Unit Topic/ Concept: CARE OF MOTHER, CHILD, FAMILY AND POPULATION
GROUP AT-RISK OR WITH PROBLEMS
Instructor: Haidee V. Jayme
Lesson Topic: NURSING CARE OF A FAMILY WITH A TODDLER
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period for 30 minutes or
more. Select one toddler
from the group and
describe how he or she
plays among the group
members
8. Visit a health center in
your community and
obtain the name and
address of an agency that
will furnish literature to
institutions or families on
poison prevention and
child safety. Write for the
literature and ask your
instructor for assistance to
distribute the materials to
the parents of the children
at your pediatric clinical
site
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abused?
7. Outline a teaching plan to
help the mother explain
pregnancy and the arrival
of a new baby
8. Visit a kindergarten and
talk with preschool child
near the end of the day.
Assess the child’s
language development,
understand how the term
“egocentrism” applies to
the preschooler, and
identify if the child is
accomplishing the
developmental tasks of
that age group
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injuries, firearms
6. What anticipatory
guidance should the nurse
give to the parent of a
child regarding breast
development and vaginal
secretion?
7. Develop a teaching plan
for parents to explain the
physical growth related to
sexuality occurring during
the school-age years
8. Create a set of key points
to discuss when providing
anticipatory guidance for
parents on detection of
recreational drug use
STUDENT OBJECTIVES (Learning Outcomes):
The students will be able to:
1. Assess a school-age child for normal growth and development milestones
2. Formulate nursing diagnoses that speak to both school-age children and their
families
3. Identify expected outcomes for nursing care of a school-age child
4. Plan anticipatory guidance to prevent problems of growth and development in a
school-age child, such as teaching about normal puberty
5. Implement nursing care to help achieve normal growth and development of a
school-age child, such as counseling parents about helping their child adjust to
a new school
6. Evaluate expected outcomes for achievement and effectiveness of care
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6. If an adolescent is
admitted with depression
and drug abuse, what
initial steps would you
take to get help for her or
him?
7. Prepare a teaching plan for
an adolescent group that
addresses methods for
maintaining adequate
nutrition, rest, and
exercise
8. How could the usual social
behaviors noted in
adolescents ages 13
through 17 contribute to
problems or concerns that
may be experienced by the
adolescent and his or her
family?
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oral contraceptive begins
before the cycle is
regulated?
6. Explain the relationship
between oral
contraception and the
potential for alteration in
skeletal growth with
adolescent girls
7. Prepare a nursing care
plan to provide health
education and counseling
for a patient who will be
undergoing an elective
tubal ligation. Focus on
the future implications of
the procedure
8. Survey the retail market
for condoms that are self-
lubricated and treated with
nonoxynol-9. Present your
findings when counseling
the adolescent in clinical
setting
STUDENT OBJECTIVES (Learning Outcomes):
The students will be able to:
1. Assess clients for reproductive life planning needs
2. Formulate nursing diagnoses related to reproductive life planning concerns
3. Identify expected outcomes for couples desiring reproductive life planning
4. Plan nursing care related to reproductive life planning, such as helping a client
select a suitable reproductive planning method
5. Implement nursing care related to reproductive life planning, such as educating
adolescents about the use of condoms as a safer sex practice as well as to
prevent unwanted pregnancy
6. Evaluate expected outcomes for achievement and effectiveness of care
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ineffective after the
diagnosis of the pregnancy
or immediately after the
birth of a child with a
defect
5. Write a brief statement on
your opinion regarding the
use of amniocentesis to
determine if a fetus is
without defects and if the
couple should continue or
terminate the pregnancy
6. How might testing to
determine the gender of
an infant become an
ethical dilemma? What are
your thoughts regarding
the use of modern
technology to determine
the gender of a child when
a gender-specific genetic
disorder is possible? When
no disorder is likely?
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