Nursing Care: Nutrition During Pregnancy, Postpartum and Newborn Period

This audio streamed lecture and handout covers the nutritional care needed for mothers and babies during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Nutritional guidelines, vitamin and mineral needs as well as weight gain during pregnancy are discussed. Feeding of the newborn includes guides to promoting, assessing and considering both breast and bottle-feeding as an approach. This lecture can be used to prepare a pre-licensure nursing student for clinical practice, or as a supplement to classroom teaching. This material was developed by Ms. Robin Osterman, RNC, MSN, APRN,BC, CNS while on the faculty in the Wright State University-Miami Valley College of Nursing and Health.

Subject: Nursing
Audience: Faculty
Resource Type: Module
Media Type: Video
Copyright: Please acknowledge the work of the author when using this resource.
Technical Requirements: QuickTime and Adobe Reader
Duration: 70:24 minutes
Size: 1.7 MB

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