This curriculum guide contains the materials required to teach a course in maternal and neonatal care that will prepare students for employment as practical nurses. The course's five instructional units cover procedures for caring for the following: prenatal patients, patients in labor and delivery, postpartum patients, healthy neonates, and neonates with potential problems. Each unit contains some or all of the following: objective sheets, suggested activities, handouts, supplements, transparency masters, instructional supplements providing suggestions for teaching basic skills, activity sheets, assignment sheets, job sheets/skill test records, written tests, and assignment sheet and test answers. Academic skills training is combined with vocational training throughout the instructional materials. To assist teachers in identifying activiites that promote basic skills development, a marking system of simple graphic symbols, or icons, is used to denote which of the following nine general basic skill categories is being emphasized: reading, science, creative thinking/problem solving, writing, oral communication, employability, math, interpersonal skills, and social studies. (MN)