Prenatal
Can be classified as presumptive, probable or positive
What a 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?
Oxytocin
What is a medication used to induce or augment labor?
What is the acronym used to organize assessments of the post-partum patient?
B.U.B.B.L.E.T.E.
This fontanel is diamond shaped and generally closes at 18 weeks after birth.
What is the anterior fontanele?
Slight fluttering movements of the fetus felt by a woman, usually between 16 to 20 weeks of gestation.
What is quickening?
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?
Dilation of the cervix in centimeters during the latent (1st) phase of the first stage of labor.
What is 1 - 3 centimeters?
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?
A medication used to treat pre-eclampsia.
What is magnesium sulfate?
A compression of the umbilical cord might cause this kind of deceleration of the fetal heart.
What is a variable deceleration?
The acronym used for assessing the perineum; tears, episiotomy, bruising, swelling, etc.
R.E.E.D.A.
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?
The term used for a woman who has completed one pregnancy beyond the stage of viability.
The term used for a severe form of morning sickness characterized by unrelenting nausea and vomiting that prevents adequate intake of foods and fluids.
What is hyperemesis gravidarum?
The four P's of Labor.
What are powers, passenger, passageway, and psyche?
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, 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?
It is very important that the nurse administer a bolus of IV fluids before this pain intervention.
What is an epidural?
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?