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- What is preconception care? - Preconception care is the promotion of the health and well-being of a woman and her partner before pregnancy. It aims to identify and modify risks to a woman's health or pregnancy outcome through prevention and management interventions. - When should couples schedule visits for preconception counseling? - Couples thinking about having children should ideally schedule visits with a healthcare provider for preconception counseling to ensure they are in the be...

What are the phases of menstrual cycle? - menstruation, follicular phase, ovulation, luteal phase, and ischemic phase. How many hours does an ovum need to be capable of fertilization? - 24 hours. (48 hours the most). Total critical span during sex must occur for fertilization to be successful is - 72 hours or 48 hours before ovulation, plus 24 hours afterward. Eggs are propelled into fallopian tubes (ampulla) by: - fimbriae, peristalsis of tube, and cilia of tube. What is the zona pelluc...

what is involution - shrinking of the uterus via contracting starting immediately after birth how long does uterine involution take - uterus returns to normal in 6 weeks what is the first nursing intervention for beginning uterine involution - bolus of pitocin (oxytocin) second step to try to start uterine involution if the bolus of pitocin plus more pitocin did not work - breastfeeding is it okay for the bladder to be full when uterine involution is trying to take place - no- it can pre...

what is our goal heart rate for newborns? - >100 BPM approximately ____% of newborns require some degree of resuscitation - 10% As a CRNA who is our primary responsibility? - the mom! the infant in the first few minutes to hours after birth is called - newborn an infant during the first 28 days of life - neonate includes the neonatal period and extends through 12 months of age - infant physical expansion of the lungs results in the critical _________ in PVR - decrease failure to normal...

Experimental studies: Investigator assigns study participants to two groups; one group receives the exposure of interest, and the other group does not. Then the investigator follows the groups over time for incidence of disease Sometimes called: -Intervention studies -Clinical trials -Randomized trials (RCTs) **Be careful not all experimental studies are randomized*** Defining feature of experimental studies: The investigator assigns exposure to study subjects. Experimental studies di...

descriptive epidemiology - epidemiologic studies concerned with characterizing the amount and distribution of health and disease within a population WHO is getting sick? (ex sex, age, race/ethnicity) WHERE are they getting sick? (ex country, rural/urban, near factory) WHEN are they getting sick? (over a day, year, decade) descriptive study designs - cross-sectional, case reports, case series, ecologic analytic epidemiology - examines causal hypotheses regarding the association between exp...

what is bias? - error that is built into the study causes the results to be different from the truth (overestimation or underestimation of the association between exposure and outcome) where is the best place to prevent bias during a study? - the design stage (before you even look for results) name the four type of bias common in cross-sectional studies - selection bias interpretation bias recall bias non-response bias name the common types of bias in case-control studies? - selection b...

definition of epidemiology? - The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified time and place. what are the three C's that epidemiologists do? - count compare communicate uses of epidemiololgy? - - helps look for causes of a disease - establish presence of an epidemic - helps identify syndromes and diseases - determines individual risk of disease epidemic definition? - new cases of a disease in a given population and period during a rate t...

Lillian Wald - Founder of public health nursing (USA) Mary Breckinridge - Founded the frontier nursing service (1925) developed a system for rural healthcare Canada - -National health program -single payer system with universal coverage -funding from taxes and federal transfer payments France - -single payer system -population is 100% covered by public mandatory health insurance -public hospitals cap pay for providers, some private places have client pay remainder -prevention is priori...

EM is treatment of Treatment of seriously ill/injured patients requires rapid assessment of illness and injuries and initiation of life preserving therapies• Timing is key, so a systematic approach that can be rapidly and accurately applied is crucial Initial Assessment • Preparation • Triage • Primary Survey (ABCDE's) • Resuscitation• Adjuncts to primary survey and Resuscitation • Secondary survey (Head to toe &Patient History) • Adjuncts to secondary survey • Con...