Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0

• 51. - Health professions and related programs
• 51.38 - Registered nursing, nursing administration, nursing research and clinical nursing

51.3806 - Maternal/child health and neonatal nurse/nursing

This instructional program class comprises any program that prepares registered nurses to provide prenatal care to pregnant women and to mothers and their newborn infants. These programs include courses in perinatal and newborn health assessment, stabilization, and care; pathophysiology of pregnancy, fetuses, and the newborn; clinical management of high-risk pregnancies and newborns; perinatal and neonatal technology and clinical procedures; and patient education.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • maternal nurse
  • maternal nursing
  • maternity nurse
  • maternity nursing
  • neonatal nurse
  • neonatal nursing

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • birthing and parenting knowledge and skills (not for credit)(34.0102)
  • midwifery(51.3401)
  • neonatal nurse practitioner(60.0725)
  • nursing midwifery(51.3807)
  • registered nurse(51.3801)