NURS 84 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Female Genital Mutilation, Early Childhood Education, Cervical Dilation
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You are an admitting nurse in the nursery, it"s 12 noon and you are called together with a neonatologist to attend a vaginal delivery complicated by maternal fever and fetal tachycardia with a possible use of vacuum extractor. The l&d nurse gives you the following report: Her medical history is significant for ritual female genital cutting (rfgm) at age 5, childhood asthma and positive ppd with negative chest x-rays, treated with antibiotics three years ago. She also had abnormal pap smear during the pregnancy (ascus with positive hpv), but colposcopy was deferred till after delivery. Her prenatal history is significant for late entry to care at 20 weeks; physiological anemia and diet controlled gestational diabetes. She is o positive, antibody negative, hbsag negative, hiv negative, and rpr negative. She requested an elective induction 3 weeks before her due date as she felt huge and tired of being pregnant . She also requested female only personnel due to religious preferences.
