OH BABY!
This prenatal vitamin is recommended to reduce the risk of neural tube defects and is usually started before conception
What is folic acid?
This three-digit phone number connects callers to local health and social services information, including housing, food, and mental health support
What is 211?
In Nova Scotia, this designation allows a registered nurse with additional training to independently assess, diagnose, and prescribe for certain health conditions within their scope of practice
What is a Registered Nurse- Authorized Prescribers?
These soothing items may reduce the risk of SIDS and are recommended during the first year of life once breastfeeding is established.
What are pacifiers?
This widely used tool estimates a person’s 10-year risk of developing cardiovascular disease based on factors like age, cholesterol, blood pressure, and smoking status.
What is the Framingham Risk Score?
This hormone, produced by the placenta, is commonly measured in early pregnancy tests
What is hCG
This community-based organization offers parenting programs, family support, and early childhood education resources to strengthen families.
What is a Family Resource Place?
This healthcare professional specializes in assessing and treating musculoskeletal, neurological, and cardiopulmonary conditions to improve movement and function.
What is a PT?
This is the recommended age range in months for an infant’s first comprehensive eye exam.
What is between 6-9 months?
Application of this induces rapid freezing followed by slow thawing which induces directed tissue necrosis.
This reflex causes an infant to turn their head and open their mouth when the cheek or corner of the mouth is stroked
what is the rooting reflex?
This program provides opioid overdose reversal kits and training to individuals at risk of overdose, their friends, and family to prevent fatal opioid overdoses.
What is the Take Home Naloxone program?
This professional assesses and treats communication disorders, swallowing difficulties, and speech impairments in individuals of all ages.
What are Speech Language Pathologists?
Health professionals recommend this timing for a child’s first dental visit
What is 6 months after the first tooth erupts or by 1 year of age?
It is recommended Epinephrine be given in what muscle for the treatment of anaphylaxis?
What is the vastus lateralis muscle?
This reflex causes an infant to grip tightly when an object is placed in their palm
what is the palmar reflex?
These specially trained nurses provide confidential, trauma-informed medical exams and evidence collection for sexual assault survivors.
What is the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program?
These unregulated team members assist with activities of daily living, safe mobility, and maintaining the care setting—but do not perform assessments or care evaluations.
What are Care Team Assistants (CTAs)?
This essential safety gear should never be second-hand unless its history is known and should be replaced every 5 years due to plastic brittleness.
What is a helmet?
When syringing ears, you should never use more than this amount of irrigant
What is 500mls?
This is the average daily weight gain in grams expected for a healthy full-term infant during the first 3 months of life
What is 20 to 30 grams per day?
This Nova Scotia program provides immediate housing and support services to people experiencing homelessness, aiming to improve health and community well-being.
What is Housing First?
This defines what a nurse is allowed to do at their job, based on their job description, employer policies, and guidelines.
What is Scope of Employment?
Children should ride in the back seat until they reach this age to be safest from airbag injuries and frontal crash impact.
What is 13 years?
This approach, rooted in Mi’kmaq tradition, encourages viewing the world through both Indigenous and Western perspectives to improve health care outcomes.
What is Two-Eyed Seeing?