09 Apr OB Complication Pre-Sim Assignment

1. What assessments are vital for the nurse to perform on the postpartum patient?

2. What factors increase a woman’s risk for postpartum hemorrhage?

3. What are the differences between early and late postpartum hemorrhage?

4. What is uterine atony, (what would you feel and see on assessment) and how does it cause postpartum hemorrhage? List other causes of excessive postpartum bleeding and nursing interventions?

5. What are the indications and contraindications of common medications used to treat

postpartum hemorrhage?

i. FIRST LINE MEDS:

ii. OTHERS:

6. Describe care of the healthy newborn during the first 24-72 hours of life. Normal assessments, procedures, and testing.

7. What should you be on alert for in the newborn during the first 24-72 hours of life? What potential things can go wrong?

8. How do we ensure we are delivering care to incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion? What are some strategies that can be utilized to support and promote the inclusion of families of sexual and/or gender minorities?

9. Name some health care risks factors and health inequities associated with members of sexual and/or gender minorities?

10. List 3 Social Determinants of Health Questions to ask during Simulation.

11. Collaborate as a team to create an SBAR for handoff to the next nursing shift and/or provider report. You all will give the SBAR prior to the start of the Simulation.