This is a video showing the different procedures performed during the Essential Newborn Care (ENC) protocol. For those who will be taking the board exams, I suggest you familiarize yourself with this.

Increase your knowledge and confidence for the Nursing Licensure Exam (NLE) or NCLEX with this easy to digest information regarding the concepts of Maternal and Child Health Nursing. This covers topic about labor, pregnancy, nursing care of the newborn, developmental stages and many more! This post contains 350 nursing bullets!

Newborns undergo profound physiologic changes at the moment of birth, as they are released from a warm, snug, dark liquid-filed environment that has met all of their basic needs, into a chilly, unbounded, brightly lit, gravity based outside world. Within minutes after being plunged into this strange environment, a newborn’s body must initiate respirations and accommodate a circulatory system to [...]

It is a condition in which vasospasm occurs during pregnancy in both small and large arteries. With high blood pressure, there is an increase in the resistance of blood vessels. This may hinder blood flow in many different organ systems in the expectant mother including the liver, kidneys, brain, uterus, and placenta.

Essential Newborn Care: Unang Yakap Campaign/Program by DOH & WHO which includes procedures, guidelines, and important information.

IMCI is an integrated approach to child health that focuses on the well-being of the whole child. IMCI aims to reduce death, illness and disability, and to promote improved growth and development among children under five years of age.

On December 7, 2009, the Department of Health launched the Unang Yakap Campaign. With this campaign, the DOH aims to cut down infant mortality in the Philippines by at least half.

First Stage The first stage of labor is divided into three phases: the latent, the active, and the transition phase. Latent This stage starts at the onset of regularly perceived uterine contractions and ends when rapid cervical dilation begins. This is also called the “preparatory phase”. Contractions Duration of Contractions Cervical Dilation Duration Mild and short 20 to 40 seconds [...]