NUR2633 Rasmussen College Gravida and Parity Discussion
Question Description
Gravida Parity assignment:
GTPA: stands for: gravida, term, preterm, abortions, living
Gravida: how many pregnancies a woman has had. Term how many pregnancies delivered that have reached or surpassed 37 weeks gestation.
Term: how many pregnancies a woman has had that delivered at 37 weeks or greater.
Preterm: how many pregnancies between 20-36 6/7 weeks gestation.
Abortion: how many pregnancies have been lost at less than 20 weeks. Abortions also may be induced by a physician or spontaneously lost. This also refers to miscarriages.
Living: how many children are living now?
******Multiple births ( twins, triplets and higher order multiples) count as one birth.
!. This is a mom’s 1st pregnancy:
2. This is a mom’s 3rd pregnancy and she had an abortion at 8 weeks for the 1st pregnancy and a miscarriage at 10 weeks, she has no preterm deliveries or living children at present.
3. This is a mom’s 3rd pregnancy the first pregnancy delivered at 38 weeks gestation and the 2nd pregnancy was twins delivered at 37 weeks. 1 of those children died.
4. This is a mom’s 2nd pregnancy. She delivered twins at 37 weeks and both of the babies survived.
5. This is a mom’s 3rd pregnancy. She delivered triplets at 28 weeks and 1 of the babies survived. She had an elective abortion at 6 weeks.
6. This a woman’s 5 pregnancies. She had a birth at 40 weeks, another one at 39 5/7 weeks, she had a third one at 35 6/7 weeks and a 4th one at 36 5/7 weeks. She had one induced abortion at 10 weeks and has currently 4 living children.
7. A pregnant woman who carried one pregnancy to term with a surviving infant; carried one pregnancy to 35 weeks with surviving twins; she carried one pregnancy to 9 weeks as an ectopic ( tubal ) pregnancy; and has 3 living children.
8. A woman who has given birth at term once and has had one miscarriage at 12 weeks would be recorded as?
This assignment is worth 8 points. Use page 259 in your text book. Include 1-3 references.
APA is worth .5
Case 1 is worth .5
Cases 2-8 are worth 1 point each.
Please, in text citation with 1-3 references
Course :Maternal Child Health
TEXTBOOK: Maternal Child Nursing Care Optimizing Outcomes for Mothers, Children & Families
This is Page 259 from this text book: To use for this assignment
Now Can YouCorrectly calculate the EDB?
Calculate the estimated date of birth using Naegele’s rule?
Lynne is a 28-year-old woman who comes to the clinic with a history of amenorrhea and a positive home pregnancy test.
Her last menstrual period began on August 26, 2014. She bled for the usual amount of time and reports that the amount of blood loss was normal. Assuming that Lynne had a 28-day cycle, use Naegele’s rule to calculate her estimated date of birth.
Important to remember: The month of August has 31 days.
August 26 + 7 days = September 2
(September) ninth month 3 = sixth month (June)
EDD/EDC/EDB = June 2
Correct calculation of the EDB is dependent on a reliable date of the LMP. Hormonal birth control methods such as combined oral contraceptive pills (OCP) and long-lasting progesterone injections can cause continued suppression of ovulation. Therefore, a discrepancy may exist between when the woman thought she ovulated and conceived and when these events actually occurred. Thus, the LMP may not be an accurate tool for estimating the due date.
Occasionally, pregnancy occurs in women who are taking oral contraceptives, usually as the result of a “pill failure” from forgotten pills or because of poor absorption that may result from various causes such as vomiting, diarrhea, or antibiotic use. Thus, contraceptive pill use may have unwittingly been continued during the early weeks of gestation. The nurse can assure the patient that prenatal hormone exposure associated with normal contraceptive use has not been shown to have any detrimental effects on the developing fetus (Nelson & Cwiak, 2011).
The Pregnancy Classification System
Another important task associated with the initial prenatal interview is to determine the patient’s gravidity and parity. Gravid is the state of being pregnant; a gravida is a pregnant woman. Gravidityrelates to the number of times that a woman has been pregnant, irrespective of the outcome. The term nulligravida is used to describe a woman who has never experienced a pregnancy. A primigravida is a woman pregnant for the first time, and a secundigravida is a woman pregnant for a second time. Although officially correct, this term is seldom used and instead the term multigravida is used in its place. A multigravida describes a woman who is pregnant for the third time (or more times). Parity refers to the number of pregnancies carried to a point of viability (generally accepted as 24 weeks of gestation), regardless of the outcome. For example, “para 1″ indicates that one pregnancy reached the age of viability. A para 2 means that two pregnancies reached th
