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Report on Progress of Professional Portfolio

Truc La
NorQuest College
Assignment # 2
Fauziya Ali
July 4, 2016

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IDENTIFY

COMPETENCY
NUMBER, LETTER
AND SUBCATEGORY

Competency Area: K Maternal/Newborn Care

Competency: K-3
Knowledge and Assessment of Labor

One significant learning experiences in this course is learning about 4

stages of labor. The textbook of Perry et al., (2013) give me all the
knowledge about the sign and has all information in detail that I need
to know to provide care for the mother and the fetus:

DESCRIBE ONE

SIGNIFICANT
LEARNING
EXPERIENCE IN THIS
COURSE RELATED TO
THE CLPNA
COMPETENCY.
PROVIDE AN
EXAMPLE

Stage 1: how to check the cervix, and exam the ammonia fluid,
timing the contraction, offer warm shower and encourage the client to
walk, show the partner how to give massage, offer and provide pain
medication.
Stage 2: the cervix is 10 cm to the time the baby is delivered. The
client is very tired after all the pushing. Advising the partner continues
to give support, give fluid.
Stage 3: the baby is born until the placenta is delivered. This time
need to check the placenta, palpate the uterus.
Stage 4: The placenta is completely delivery. Give the baby to the
mother as soon as possible and provide quick check up to the baby.
This is also the time that the new mother can breastfeed and bond with
her new born.

DESCRIBE WHAT

YOU LEARNED AND

HOW IT RELATES TO
THE COMPETENCY.
EXPLAIN WHY IT
WAS MEANINGFUL.

The textbook gives me all the information and knowledge from stage 1
to stage 4 in detail. More than that the text book also guide me how to
deal with prolong and complicate labour. On the other hand, the
CLPNA competency gives the big picture about the labour and what
the PN can do within their scope of practice. Additionally, I need to do
a very good documentation in each stage of labour. Therefore, I can
apply them into the future practice and my own personal needed. As a
result, the textbook and the competency works together very well.

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USES THE
PROFICIENCY
CATEGORIES TO
RATE THEIR
PROFICIENCY IN THE
CHOSEN CLPNA
COMPETENCY.
EXPLAIN WHAT WAS
DONE TO ACHIEVE
THE COMPETENCY.

DESCRIBE HOW YOU

WILL APPLY THIS
LEARNING IN YOUR
CURRENT AND
FUTURE NURSING
PRACTICE

The rate proficiency for this chosen competency would be excellent.

After reading the textbook, I have the confident that I can apply all the
useful information to the real life when I become a nurse. I believe as a
nurse, you need to have the knowledge about your job and know what
you can do to provide care to the patient safely.

This experiences is playing an important role important for me to use

in my current and future nursing practice. As a student PN, this will
give me the knowledge information to me to have my own experiences
when I go into the labour, and I can give some advises to my own
family or friend. In the future practice as a PN, I can use all the
knowledge that I have learned about 4 stages of labour and apply this
experience to my patient by assessing the contraction, fetus
presentation and position, cervix dilatation, check the fetus, emotion
support a couple. I also need to document all the information about the
fetus and the mother.

Student Name: TRUC LA

Course: NFDN 2004 - O01 XL 2016 Spring
Date: July 4, 2016
Instructor/Tutor: FAUZIYA ALI

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References
Perry, S.E., Hockenberry, M.J., Lowdermilk, D. L., Wilson, D., Keenan Lindsay, L., Sams, C.
A. (Eds.). (2013). Maternal child nursing care in Canada (1st ed.). Toronto, ON:
Mosby/Elsevier Canada