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Guide to High-Risk Pregnancy Management Study Guide

This guide provides comprehensive information on identifying and managing high-risk pregnancies. It covers the categorization of risk factors, common antepartum alterations with their symptoms and treatments, and essential nursing management principles, including medication calculations and psychosocial support. The content is designed for educational purposes to enhance understanding of complex pregnancy conditions and their care.

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Safety and Quality in Nursing Practice

Nursing Quality and Patient Safety

This content defines safety and quality in healthcare while discussing sentinel events, just culture, and communication strategies to minimize errors in care.

  • Safety
  • Quality
  • Sentinel events
  • Just Culture
  • Patient-centered care
  • Root cause analysis
  • Error prevention management strategies
  • SBAR
  • TeamSTEPPS
  • CUS words
  • Check backs
  • Call outs
  • Two-challenge rule
  • National Patient Safety Goals

Antepartum Alterations and High-Risk Pregnancy

Antepartum Alterations and High Risk Pregnancy

Differentiate factors that place pregnancy at a high risk for alterations and apply pathophysiology, etiology, and clinical manifestations to women experiencing altered pregnancy.

  • High-risk pregnancy categories
  • Biophysical risk factors
  • Psychosocial risk factors
  • Sociodemographic risk factors
  • Environmental risk factors
  • Hyperemesis
  • Ectopic pregnancy
  • Placenta previa
  • Preeclampsia
  • Gestational diabetes
  • Nursing process
  • Clinical decision-making
  • Clinical reasoning
  • Magnesium Sulfate infusion rates
  • Medication administration calculations

Patient Safety and Infection Prevention

Quality and Safety in Patient Care

Guidelines for correct patient identification, safe use of medications, infection prevention, fall prevention, and prevention of pressure ulcers.

  • Correct patient identification
  • Safe use of medications
  • Anticoagulant therapy safety
  • Infection prevention
  • Hand hygiene
  • Health care–associated infections (HAIs)
  • Fall prevention
  • Prevention of bed sores (pressure ulcers)

Alterations During Pregnancy

Antepartum Alterations in Pregnancy

This content discusses antepartum alterations including hyperemesis gravidarum, ectopic pregnancy, spontaneous abortion, and placenta previa.

  • Hyperemesis Gravidarum
  • Ectopic Pregnancy
  • Spontaneous Abortion
  • Placenta Previa
  • Preeclampsia/Eclampsia
  • Gestational Diabetes
  • Electrolyte imbalance
  • Ketosis
  • Methotrexate
  • Placental implantation
  • Nursing interventions

Patient Safety, Quality, and Error Prevention

Nursing Quality, Safety, and Error Prevention

This content covers concept definitions of quality and safety, National Patient Safety Goals, sentinel events, just culture, and nursing interventions for injury and infection prevention.

  • National Patient Safety Goals 2025
  • Sentinel events
  • Just culture
  • SBAR
  • TeamSTEPPS
  • Root cause analysis
  • Patient identification
  • Fall prevention
  • Infection prevention
  • Handwashing

Gestational Diabetes and Hypertensive Disorders

Gestational Diabetes and Hypertensive Disorders

This content discusses gestational and preexisting diabetes during pregnancy along with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy including preeclampsia and eclampsia.

  • Preexisting Diabetes
  • Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM)
  • Maternal Risks
  • Fetal/Neonatal Risks
  • Diagnostic Testing
  • Diet Therapy
  • Chronic hypertension
  • Gestational hypertension
  • Preeclampsia
  • Eclampsia
  • Imposed preeclampsia

Management of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy

This content covers risk factors, clinical manifestations, and nursing management for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, including preeclampsia and gestational diabetes.

  • Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
  • Preeclampsia clinical manifestations
  • Risk factors for high-risk pregnancy
  • Antepartum management of hypertension
  • Magnesium sulfate administration and toxicity
  • Nursing care for high-risk pregnancy
  • Biophysical assessment techniques
  • Gestational diabetes mellitus
  • Fetal well-being monitoring

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