Diaphragm teaching ✔✔ Must be refitted every 2 years, or if there has been a 15 pound weight change, full term pregnancy or second term abortion.
... [Show More] Keep in place for at least 6 hours after coitus.
Combined hormonal contraception ✔✔ Contains estrogen and progestin to suppress ovulation, thicken cervical mucus to block semen
Toxic shock syndrome ✔✔ caused by bacteria infection. Clinical manifestations include high fever, faint feeling, drop in BP, watery diarrhea, headache, and muscles aches
What BCP is safe to take while breastfeeding? ✔✔ Progestin only
Which form of contraception has the potential for for causing decreased bone density ? ✔✔ Depo-provera
Disadvantage of oral contraceptives ✔✔ Thromboses, pulmonary embolism (sx SOB, cough, hemoptysis), hormone dependent cancers
Presumptive signs of pregnancy ✔✔ Changes that the woman experiences and reports. Amenorrhea, fatigue, urinary frequency, N/V, breast tenderness, quickening
Probable signs of pregnancy ✔✔ Observed by the provider.. Goodell's (softening of cervical tip), Chadwick's (bluish color of vag mucosa), and Hegar's sign (softening and compressing of lower uterus); positive pregnancy test (note false +/-), braxton hicks contractions, ballottement (rebound of engaged fetus)
Positive signs of pregnancy ✔✔ fetal heart sounds, visualization of fetus by UTZ, fetal movement palpated by examiner.
fetal heart rate detected by electronic device at 10-12 weeks (doppler) and by non-electronic device at 20 weeks (fetoscope
HCG ✔✔ Human Chorionic Gonadotropin; may be detected as early as 7-10 days after implantation
Parity ✔✔ # of pregnancies that reach age of viability (appx 20-24 weeks) OR a fetal weight of at least 500g (2lbs) regardless of whether or not the fetus is born alive or not
GTPAL ✔✔ Gravida, Term, Preterm, Abortions, Living Children
TORCH ✔✔ (acronym for toxoplasmosis, other infections, rubella, cytomegalovirus, and herpes virus) screening when indicated.
MSAFP ✔✔ maternal serum alpha fetoprotein (15 to 22 weeks) rules out down syndrome and neural tube defects. Increased indicates neural tube defect, decreased indicates down syndrome.
Fundal height ✔✔ 12-13 weeks: rises out of the symphysis; 20 weeks: at umbilicus; 24 weeks: measured in cm, with the number of cm above the symphysis equal to the number of weeks of gestation
RhoGAM ✔✔ Admin @ 28 wks & 72 hrs PP for mothers who are RH negative
How much fluid to consume per day during pregnancy ✔✔ 2-3L [Show Less]