The Multidisciplinary Approach to Maternal Health Care
- The nurse will inform the patient of the resources available to meet her nutritional, emotional, spiritual, social, and medical needs, upon admission.
- The staff will identify those patient's who would benefit from a resource and request treatment and or a consultion
- Members of the team will follow up will the patient and make certain that the patient receives support and adjust the plan of care to meet the patient's needs.
Purpose for the program: To address the mom's physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs.
The multidisciplinary team meets each week to develop an approach to maternal care with the goal in mind to decrease preterm deliveries and increase maternal satisfaction during prolonged hospital stay.
We have developed a multidisciplinary team that focuses on and treats the patient the holistic health approach for OB in-patient status.
Proposed change: To improve patient satisfaction and prolong pregancy by identifying and meeting the needs of the hospitalized mom utilizing the holistic approach
Implementation, outcomes and evaluation: Mulitidisciplinary team meets on a weekly basis, inlcuding the charge nurse to identify those pateints who may need the resources offered by the team
then develop a care plan that is patient specific.
Solicit mom's participation and make her an inetgral participant in the planning and implementation of the care plan.
Mom is more compliant with MD's recommendation for hospitalization
Mom reports satisfaction with hospital care and pregnancy is prolonged
Shorter NICU stay for infant as a result of prolonged pregnancy.
Monitor mom's utilization of the resources available
Monitor compliance with treatment recommendation
Follow up by incorporating patient rounding, reassing, and then redeveloping the pateint's care plan to fit mom/baby's needs.
Implications for nursing practice: Provide a process that will improve patient satisfaction that can influence and perhaps avoid preterm delivery of infant.
Serve as a resource for obtaining alternative methods of meeting the pateint's needs using a holistic approach.
Keywords: Increasing satisfaction produces prolonged hosptal stay
