QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Grief response phases - CORRECT ANSWER PHASE 1: shock and numbness
PHASE 2: searching and yearning
PHASE 3: disorientation
PHASE 4: reorganization and resolution
The RN's role in perinatal palliative care - CORRECT ANSWER - actualize the loss
- help make decisions
- acknowledge and express feelings
- create memories
- be sensitive to cultural and spiritual needs of the parents
- post mortem care
- documentation
- sensitive care after discharge
Preconception interventions to optimize health - CORRECT ANSWER - encourage a
dental exam
- avoid teratogens
-discuss folic acid and nutritional needs
If an aabnromality is detected - CORRECT ANSWER -increased parental options
- further testing
- counselling re-planned birth or termination
- preparation of special need child
- altered obstetric management
-facilitated neonatal management
Prenatal screening - CORRECT ANSWER used to identify genetic conditions
- 1st trimester: 11 to 14 weeks
-2nd trimester: 18 to 22 week
Risks fo prenatal testing - CORRECT ANSWER -parental anxiety
- false positive
- true positive
Pregnancy - CORRECT ANSWER presumptive: strong feeling they are pregnant
Probable: probable signs of pregnancy are noted by the physician
Positive: positive tests
, Adaption to pregnancy - CORRECT ANSWER -maternal adaption
- paternal adaption
- sibling adaption
- grandparent adaption
- psychological changes
Prenatal nursing interventions - CORRECT ANSWER - monitoring and management
during pregnancy to prevent complications
- encourage the father to be involved
- monitor the weight gain
- social support
- psychosocial adjustment
-supplemental food programs
- danger signs
- follow up visits
- preparation for breastfeeding
- perinatal care choices
Lamaze method - CORRECT ANSWER aims to promote normal, natural, healthy,
fulfilling childbearing experiences for women and their families.
This is accomplished through: education, advocacy and reform.
This method works by:
-letting labor begin on its own
- walk , move around and change positions throughout labor
- bring a loved one, friend or doula for continued support
- avoid interventions that are not medically necessary
- avoid giving birth n your back and follow surges to push
- keep your baby with you because it is best for you and baby
Types of abortions - CORRECT ANSWER - threatened
- inevitable
- incomplete
- complete
-missed
- septic
- recurrent
Ectopic pregnancy - CORRECT ANSWER provide the individual grief support for the
loss of pregnancy
Molar pregnancy - CORRECT ANSWER prenatal visits should include assessments
for molar pregnancies within the first 24 weeks