Maternity
Archer Review Crash Course
Welcome!
● If you have a question please enter it in the chat! I will do my best to
answer questions as we go, but if I miss one will always circle back to you!
● We will be taking a 10 minute break halfway through.
● Handouts & powerpoint slides are located in the ‘Handouts’ section of
your GoToWebinar control panel. You can download and print them from
here!
● Within one week of course completion you will receive an email with your
OnDemand streaming link so that you may re-watch this course. You have
access for 1 month!
● If you have any technical issues or questions about streaming, handouts,
etc. please email
,Introduction
● Morgan Taylor, BSN, RN, CCRN
● Pediatric nurse at heart
● Units I’ve worked on:
○ PICU
○ PCICU
○ NICU
○ Mother-Baby
○ ED
○ Bone Marrow Transplant
● Current position: Children’s Resource Unit… a little bit of everything
pediatrics!
● Fun fact: I got married in my backyard this year because….COVID. My
niece and nephew totally stole the show!
Terminology
● Gestation
○ The time between conception and birth.
○ 40 weeks
● Gravida
○ A pregnant woman
● Gravidity
○ Number of pregnancies
● Parity
○ Number of births carried to viability
● Nullipara - never given birth; multipara - given birth multiple times
● LMP
○ Last Menstrual Period
, Naegele's Rule
Naegele's Rule
● Used to estimate the delivery date
First day of
last 7 days 3 months 1 year
menstrual
period
= estimated due
date
, May 21st, 2019
7 days 3 months 1 year
5-21-2019
5-28-2019 2-28-2019 2-28-2020
= February 28th,
2020
GTPAL