Question | Answer |
FCMC | Family Centered Medical Care |
Doulas | Stands by mother during labor and delivery |
1 lb. | 480 grams |
NICU | Neonatal Intensive Care Unit |
Legal Issue in Delivery of Care | Malpractice suits high |
Nuclear Family | Family consisting of parents and their dependent children |
Extended Family | Includes nuclear family and other people related by blood |
Single-Parent Family | Family with only one parent |
Binuclear Family | Family after divorce |
Reconstituted Family | Includes stepparents and stepchildren |
Homosexual Family | One person of the same sex have children |
Affective Function | Meets needs for affection and understanding |
Socialization function | Refers to the learning experiences provided within the family to teach about social roles |
Reproductive Function | Need to replinish the generation/survival of society |
Economic Function | Familys provision of allocation fo sufficient resources |
Health Care Functions | Meed the physical necessities |
Social roles in families are learned in ____________. | Pairs |
Family systems theory | Encourages nurses to view individual family members of a larger family system influenced by and influencing others |
Family Developmental Theory | Focuses on the family as it moves across time. |
Family Stress Theory | Focuses with the ways families react to stressful events |
Every mother of childbearing age should be viewed as what? | A potential mother |
What is so important in preconception counseling? | Folic Acid |
What is the chance that a sexually active teen not using protection will get pregnant? | 90% |
What medication provides some protection in endometrial cancer? | Birth Control Pills |
Where in the abdomen is the uterus? | Between the bladder & rectum |
What is the wall in the uterus that causes menses? | Endometrium |
What two hormones cause menses? | Progesterone & Estrogen |
How long does menses last? | 2-8 days |
Climacteric | The time before menopause |
Primary Infertility | When a couple has never had a child |
Secondary Infertility | When a couple has one child but is unable to conceive one now |
Unexplaned Infertility | No cause found |
Sterility | Conception not possible |
How many couples does infertility affect? | 10-15% |
BBT | Basal Body Thermometer |
Endometriosis | Abnormal condition in which the endometrium is outside of the uterus |
Dysmenorrhea | Pain with menses |
Menorrhagia | Heavy bleeding/menses |
Varicocele | Varicose vein of the testicle |
Clomid | Stimulates the production on pituitary gonadotropins |
Clomid | Ocular side effects as well as maturation of multiple follicles |
Menotropins | Pergonal |
Menotropins | Purified prep. of gonadotropins extracted from urine of postmenopausal women |
HCG | Hormone secreted by placenta |
HCG | Important in sustaining estrogen and progesterone, preventing menstruation |
Abortion | Intereption of a pregnancy before 20 weeks |
Primary Prevention | Prevent illness |
Secondary Prevention | Early detection of health problems |
Tertiary Prevention | Prevent from getting worse |