Healthcare Considerations for the Pregnant and Postpartum Patient: Normal Changes, Complications, and Implications for Care
CE Credits Hours: 3.50
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this continuing education course, you will be able to identify the normal changes, possible complications, and implications for care for the pregnant and postpartum patient. Specific learning objectives to address potential knowledge gaps include:
Describe the ways in which pregnancy affects patient care.
- Differentiate normal from abnormal lab values in pregnancy.
- Identify signs and symptoms indicating possible pregnancy complications.
- Discuss the medical management and nursing care typically provided in response to the most common complications of pregnancy.
- Summarize relevant patient teaching offered to patients with gestational diabetes.
- Name the complications that can arise when amniotic membranes rupture prematurely.
- Discuss issues related to preterm labor and birth.
- List the most common postpartum complications.
Course Description
Obstetric CEU course for all nurses and EMTs/paramedics. Covers patient management and common pregnancy complications such as bleeding and gestational diabetes. Care for pregnant women in all healthcare settings. Learn about risk factors, signs and symptoms, nursing care, maternal and fetal implications, and patient teaching.
Regulations/Board Approvals
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #12300.
