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Lori has a history of congenital cardiac disease. She is being moved to a telemetry unit for
cardiac monitoring after the delivery of her 24-week stillborn infant. The most common
assessment that the nurses who do not work on perinatal units may fail to address is
breast care.
Implantation of the embryo outside the uterus is called ectopic pregnancy.
The loss of a pregnancy prior to 20 weeks gestation or delivery of a fetus weighing less than 500
grams is called a/an spontaneous abortion.
The most common causes of neonatal death include congenital anomalies and preterm
birth.
Joe and Sarah have arrived for a prenatal visit and an ultrasound. When the ultrasound shows the
fetus does not have a heartbeat, the father yells at the physician to look again or to have someone
else read the ultrasound. He then storms out of the room. What phase of grief is the father
experiencing? Searching and yearning