Maternal And Child Nutrition Health, Medicine, Nursing Coursework (Coursework Sample)

INTERNSHIP REPORT
WASIKE ISAAC
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH (MCH)
1.1 INTRODUCTION
MCH is an out-patient department it is divided to various clinics. It majorly deals with child welfare and growth and monitoring handling both the pre and post natal care of the mother and child.
Services are offered according to the various rooms which are as follows;
Room 1; immunization
Room 2; post natal clinic
Room 3; nutrition room
Room4 and 5; CCC (PMTCT < 18 months)
Room 6; dressing room
Room 7; clinician OPD
Room 8; provider initiated counseling and testing PITC
Room 9; clinician OPD
Room 10, 11 and 12; TB clinic
Room 13; dermatology clinic
Room 14 and 15; STI room
Room 16; VSC (voluntary surgical contraceptive)
Room 17; MCH Pharmacy
Room 18; Family planning
Room 19; cervical cancer screening
Room 20 and 21; ANC PMTCT clinic
Room 22; ANC laboratory
Room 23; ANC PITC
Room 26; mentor mother’s room
My Objectives
* To correctly carry out nutrition assessment and scoring the patients.
* To provide adequate counseling to different type of patients.
* To be able to supplement patients as required.
1.2 EXPERIENCES
While in MCH, I attended the following clinics:
1 Triage
2 Antenatal care clinic (ANC)
3 Nutrition clinic
4 TB clinic
1.2.1Triage
At the triage, I did anthropometric assessment for children brought for routine immunization and growth monitoring thereafter plotted the obtained result in mother and child health booklet. I also tallied the number of children seen in child Health and Nutrition Information system (CHANIS) based on their age, weight for age and height for age.
I referred children with faltering and static growth patterns and the malnourished ones to nutrition clinic for nutrition counseling, education, appropriate intervention and monitoring.
1.2.2 Antenatal clinic