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what does the Extended Family consist of?✔️✔️An extended family includes blood relatives
living with the nuclear family.
FICA Spiritual Assessment Tool✔️✔️Helps address spiritual issues:
F: faith- do you consider yourself spiritual or religious.
I: Importance- What importance does spirituality have to you?
C: Community- Are you a part of a spiritual community? Church?
A: Address in care- How would you like these issues addressed?
What is Telephonic nursing assessment✔️✔️commonly used during the postpartum period to
reassess the mother's knowledge
What are the goals of community health care networks✔️✔️reduced costs of health care services;
improved coordination of care and outcomes; improved communication among health care
providers; and increased patient, payer, and provider satisfaction.
-gravida✔️✔️pregnant
Gravidity✔️✔️number of pregnancies
nulligravida✔️✔️a woman who has never been pregnant
at 20 weeks you can feel the what at the umbilicus (Belly Button)✔️✔️fundal height
maternal blood screening✔️✔️identifies pregnancies that have an elevated risk for birth defects
such as spina bifida and down syndrome
, Alpha-Fetaoprotein (AFP)✔️✔️If the test is high that is associated with Neural Tube defects like
high over the head think neural
If Test is low think of down syndrome
chorionic villus sampling (CVS)✔️✔️Prenatal diagnostic technique that involves taking a sample
of tissue from the chorion.
Looking for chromosome defects
Preformed at 10- 13 weeks
amniocentesis✔️✔️the sampling of amniotic fluid using a hollow needle inserted into the uterus,
to screen for developmental abnormalities in a fetus.
Preformed at 14- 20 weeks
Preformed early in pregnancy for genetic abnormalities
Preformed late in pregnancy to assess LUNG MATURITY
LS ration (surfactant)✔️✔️Lecithin- Sphingomyelin ratio (amniotic fluid)
done to measure lung maturity and through amniocentesis
Reportable STIs in the US✔️✔️Syphillis, Gonnahra and Chlyminda
Gonorrhea✔️✔️The oldest communicable disease in the United States. Because it is a reportable
communicable disease, health care providers are legally responsible for reporting all cases to
health authorities.
Treatment: Cephlasporin