NURS405 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Ectopic Pregnancy, Maternal Death, Prenatal Diagnosis
22 Sep 2017
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Chapter 12 pregnancy risk factors and assessment: maternal and fetal. Mental health concerns: depression in mothers can have detrimental effects on infants including, difficulty breastfeeding, difficult weight gain. Increased stressed behaviours: sleep difficulty, all women no matter the social, economic, racial, or cultural background are at risk for mental health issues, providing services that preserve the mother-infant dyad is optimal. Intimate partner violence during pregnancy: abuse during pregnancy increases the risk for, abruptio placentae, preterm birth, lbw infants. Abuse is about control of one person over the other, so hcps have to remember to enable the woman to make her own decisions and have control over her own decisions. Leading causes of death in neonates are preterm and multiple births. Antepartum testing in the first and second trimester: expected outcome is detection of potential fetal compromise so the hcp can take measures to prevent or minimize adverse perinatal outcomes.
