Teaching Plan for Healthy People 2020, MICH-16.1 Preconception education for women over forty years old
The community health problem identified by Healthy People 2020 (2013) indicates a need for education that “increases the proportion of women delivering a live birth who discussed preconception health with a health care worker prior to pregnancy” (p. 3). My teaching plan will focus on women over 40 years old. The focus of preconception care has evolved over time. Preconception care had focused on women who had previously had an unfavorable pregnancy outcome. Barry (2011) states, “preconception care should be discussed with every woman at every opportunity” (p. 68-74).
The goal of preconception care according to Barry (2011) is “to provide health promotion, screening and interventions for women of reproductive age to reduce the risk factors that might affect future pregnancies” (p. 68-74). Half of all pregnancies are unintended. Preconception care is usually provided to women who have planned a pregnancy and seek preconception care. A reproductive life plan is recommended for all child bearing aged couples. Reproductive life plans will provide counseling and address specific issues in the individual plan.
The nurse should recognize the importance of initiating conversations about reproductive life with their patients.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “preconception care interventions are aimed at identifying and modifying biomedical, behavioral and social risks to a woman’s health or pregnancy outcome through prevention and management” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2014). The goal is to optimize the health of women before conception to maximize the health of h...
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Family history, teach the importance of letting their physician know what kind of diseases or problems family members have had. Spend fifteen minutes talking about genetics and how this could affect their pregnancy and the live birth of their baby.
Teach about substance abuse, how alcohol and smoking can affect a fetus. Teach the importance of stopping these substances during preconception as well as during pregnancy. Spend ten minutes going over the risk factors, show statistics of babies with fetal alcohol syndrome, low-birth weight babies and the risks of premature labor.
If women over 40 participate in preconception counseling to overcome any barriers they
may have, and if they also follow the goals and objectives along with the key elements
taught, these women should increase their chances of having a healthy pregnancy and a
live birth.
They believe the only issue is with the fertility clinic not doing their part in creating a sound environment that is geared developing a child not money centered. The third author’s outlook lead more towards providing counseling as a direction for the couple’s situation. They believe that its necessary to seek outside help to provide guidance on handling this matter. The stress, tension, and uncertainty that is arising in the individuals that are involves needs a middle man of a professional background to give insight them on how to handle these matters. The last author displayed his opinion as focuses more on incorporating all parties in the process of child birth. The author believes that everyone should not only consider the importance it has on one’s self, on the unborn, and
The implementation of a reproductive life plan into junior high, high schools, clinics, and hospitals along
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggestion that a pregnant woman should not drink alcohol during pregnancy (Advisory on alcohol use in pregnancy 2005) has been widely criticized as being unnecessarily paternalistic, but the CDC goes further into explaining that, “Alcohol consumed during pregnancy increases the risk of alcohol related birth defects, including growth deficiencies, facial abnormalities, central nervous system impairment, behavioral disorders, and impaired intellectual development” (Advisory on alcohol use in pregnancy
Sonfield, Adam. "Sex Education Remains Active Battleground." Contraceptive Technology Update 1 Mar. 2012. Academic OneFile. Web. 4 Apr. 2012.
The article could potentially be considered outdated because it was posted roughly ten years ago. On the website, the author suggests individuals should have better access to birth control, the “morning-after” pill, and proper sex education that could drastically change the number of unintended pregnancies. If this were to happen, it could increase the knowledge of sex, pregnancies, and how to prevent it; however, making young adults more knowledgeable does not mean that we will lower the number of pregnancies
The debate concerning abortion still exists and is causing a lot of controversy. One of the biggest is an issue concerning mother’s who are experiencing health compilations during p...
Concluding the research “Overall, 3% of women reported that a clinician had discussed emergency contraception with them in the past year, and 4% of those who had ever had sex with a man reported having used the method. Only 4% of those who had seen a gynecologist in the past year reported having received counseling. Women's likelihood of having received counseling was reduced if they were 30 or older (odds ratio, 0.2), and was elevated if they were Hispanic (4.1), black (2.6) or ever-married (2.4). Receipt of counseling in the last 12 months was the strongest predictor of eve...
Birth control is an affordable basic preventive health care measure that is critical to achieving
Contraceptives are effective ways for coupes to prevent pregnancy. However, even with the best possible contraceptive available none are 100% reliable. Sterilizations do not always work, can come undone naturally in men, offer no protection from STI’s, and is usually expensive. Condoms can break, leak, or slip. Abortions are no different. Abortion is the termination or expulsion of an embryo before viability. They can occur spontaneously or be planned with counseling. If a woman were to choose to get an abortion it should be her choice and no one else’s. Abortion and pregnancy are things affecting her body personally. Dehlendorf and other researchers state “The abortion rate in the United State is higher than that in most other developed countries” (1772). Abortion proves to be one of the most controversial contraceptives within our society. Conversely, abortions possess their own advantages and disadvantages including social pressure, possible after effects, and methods for the procedure.
In life, we go through eight periods of development. The Period of development that I personally feel is most important is the prenatal development. Pregnancy is a physical condition in which a woman’s body is nurturing and developing an embryo or fetus. Prenatal development, or gestation, is the process that transforms a zygote into a newborn. Consequently, the process that ends with the birth of a baby involves two sets of experiences: those of the pregnant woman, and those of the developing zygote, embryo, and fetus (Lifespan Development, Boyd, Bee 2015 p.57). During these times are very vital and there every women who is in the process of giving birth to child should learn positive and negative risk factors of conception.
Every day, an overwhelming amount of human beings’ lives are terminated. The culprit: unwanted pregnancies. Many woman are (not by choice), becoming pregnant as a result of unsafe sex, rape, and other things. So what is one to do when they discover that they’re pregnant? They have some alternatives: (1) have the child and raise it (2) have the child, then give it up for adoption (3) get an abortion. Sadly, many women choose alternative three, unaware of what they’re getting themselves into.
Unintentional pregnancies statistically bring a host of economic, emotional, and physical ills to mother and baby. About half of the unintended pregnancies in Washington State are aborted, according to the state Department of Health. That rate is consistent with the rest of the US. Even though there is a demand for abortion providers, man...
Contraception supply women with notable health benefits, with new studies continuing to provide documented medical evidence that support the use of contraceptives.
In the United States since the beginng of the 1990’s until 2000’sthe teen pregnancy rate has decline tremdously. Although the U.S. has decline in teen birth it still leads all countries in teen pregnancy rate rate according to the 2013 statistics 52.1 per 1000 of female’s population age group of 15-19 (HTP,2013). Where as countries such as Canada have particually a low teen pregnancy rate where on average every 20.2 out of 1000 teens become pregnant before reaching 21. For the united states to decline in leading the nation in teen pregnancy and prevation plan needs to come interwish. The teen pregnancy prevation plan will constit of the follow topics such as Sexual education, teen abstinence, and open parent child realtionship.
Teenage pregnancy has become a national epidemic, partly because more and more teenagers who give birth decide to keep and raise their children. There is a great cost to individuals, families and society when children have children of their own. Adolescents lack knowledge of access to conventional methods of preventing pregnancy, as they may be afraid to seek such information or be ignorant on the effects and consequences of falling pregnant; keeping the baby; terminating their pregnancy; contraction of viruses and even diseases.