This course provides the opportunity to synthesize and apply clinical knowledge and skills pertaining to advanced maternal and newborn nursing for high-risk clients in the antenatal, intrapartal and postnatal periods. Roles of the clinical nurse specialist including practitioner, researcher, consultant, and educator will be emphasized. Ethical and legal issues pertaining to high-risk maternal-newborn nursing will be addressed. Clinical guidelines including national reproductive and family planning guidelines will be discussed and applied where appropriate.