VII. DISCHARGE PLANNING, AND HOME NEEDS NEED at least 4 scholarly references*
Self-Care & Infant-Care after Discharge- complete a short teaching guide to assist the family post discharge.
Please make this portion of your paper a teaching guide to provide your patient the information she needs
once she goes home. It needs to include all the relevant information she will need to care for herself and the
newborn in the following weeks. The guide needs to be individualized to your patient. This is your care plan
for her and her child for when she is home. The discharge planning will include all of the points A-K that apply
to your patient:
Vaginal Discharge/Menstruation
Family Planning
Post C-Section and or post tubal ligation Care
Adjustment to Parenthood
Breast/Bottle Feeding
Comfort
Provider follow-up (mom/baby)
Post-partum Emergencies (for mom/baby)
Infant Care
Breast Care
Postpartum depression
