Prenatal
Breast tenderness, a missed period, and fatigue?
What are presumptive signs of pregnancy?
Typically occurs after the 20th week of pregnancy, manifests with an elevated blood pressure, proteinuria, abnormal weight gain and edema.
What is pre-eclampsia?
A medication used to induce or augment labor and also used in postpartum hemorrhage management?
What is oxytocin?
The acronym used to organize assessments of the post-partum patient?
What is B.U.B.B.L.E.S.?
This fontanel is diamond shaped and generally closes at 18 months after birth.
What is the anterior fontanele?
Green leafy vegetables, organ meat and beans
What are sources of iron?
The acronym used for the syndrome characterized by hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes and low platelets, sometimes as a result of gestational hypertension.
What is HELLP?
Lengthening of the cord, a gush of dark red blood, and a change in the shape of the uterus
What placenta separation?
This organ descends 1 cm/day after delivery.
What is the uterus?
Low-set ears may be a sign of this genetic disorder.
What is Down's Syndrome?
This prenatal test includes electronic fetal monitoring and an ultrasound. The score is determined by fetal breathing movements, gross body movements, fetal tone, a reactive fetal heart rate, and the amniotic fluid volume.
What is a biophysical profile?
Low blood pressure, low urine output, low respiratory rate, loss of deep tendon reflexes
What are signs of magnesium sulfate administration toxicity?
A compression of the umbilical cord might cause this kind of deceleration of the fetal heart.
What is a variable deceleration?
300-500
What is extra calories needed while breastfeeding?
This reflex is elicited by stroking the newborn's cheek or edge of mouth. When this is done, the newborn turns the head toward the side that is touched and may begin to suck.
What is the rooting reflex?
What is folic acid?
This organ acts as waste removal, provides oxygen and nutrition for the growing fetus, provides passive immunity and generally keeps mother and fetus separated by membranes; but some teratogens can still cross through
What is the placenta?
A low-tech way to determine contraction strength
What is palpation?
Signs and symptoms of this post-partum complication may include saturation of 1 pad or more an hour, large clots, formation of a hematoma, and/or a boggy uterus.
What is a post-partum hemorrhage?
Respiratory Distress Syndrome, often seen with premature newborns and infants of diabetic mothers, is characterized by poor gas exchange and ventilatory failure as a result of a deficiency of this substance in the lungs.
What is surfactant?
This hormone begins being produced with implantation, peaks at about 60 - 70 days of pregnancy, then declines.
What is human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)?
This nursing assessment is contraindicated when a client is suspected of having a placenta previa.
What is a vaginal exam?
The presenting part is 3 centimeters above the ischial spines
What is -3 station?
Monitoring the perineum, uterus, bladder, lungs and breasts for complications is an intervention that is based on this 'Risk for' Nursing Diagnosis.
What is Risk for Infection?
An Rh-incompatibility results if the mother is Rh ___ and the newborn is Rh ____.
What are Rh negative and Rh positive?