Substances and Pregnancy
This substance has no known safe amount of consumption during pregnancy.
What is alcohol?
This potentially fatal event occurs when a substance causes dangerously slowed or stopped breathing.
What is an overdose?
What does NAS stand for?
What is neonatal abstinence syndrome?
This substance can cause vasoconstriction and increase the risk of placental abruption.
What is cocaine?
This type of substance use involves taking more than one substance, increasing the risk of dangerous interactions.
What is polysubstance use?
This condition describes withdrawal in newborns following prenatal opioid exposure.
What is neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome?
Prenatal exposure to this substance is associated with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
What is alcohol?
Name one mental health condition that can increase vulnerability to substance use and complicate postpartum recovery.
What are depression, anxiety, or post traumatic stress disorder?
Name two common signs of neonatal opioid withdrawal.
What is tremors, irritability, high-pitched crying, poor feeding, and sleep disturbances?
Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of this condition, in which the fetus does not grow as expected.
What is intrauterine growth restriction?
Why can abruptly stopping treatment for opioid use disorder increase maternal risk?
Because it can increase the risk of relapse and potentially fatal overdose
This care approach assesses whether an infant can eat, sleep, and be consoled.
What is Eat, Sleep, Console?
Name two potentially life-threatening cardiovascular complications of maternal cocaine use.
What are myocardial infarction and cardiac arrhythmias?
Name three nursing interventions that can help reduce substance related maternal mortality.
What is early screening, referral to addiction treatment, continued medication for opioid use disorder, naloxone education, and postpartum follow up.
A newborn exposed to opioids has tremors, poor feeding, and difficulty being consoled. Name two appropriate nursing interventions.
What is reducing environmental stimulation, swaddling, supporting feeding, encouraging skin-to-skin contact when appropriate, and monitoring symptoms according to protocol?