Postpartum Assessment Checklist-1 PDF

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Postpartum Skills Testing Checklist NURS 106/116, Maternal-Newborn Nursing BODY SYSTEM OR AREA

1. Pt. ID

2. Psychosocial Bonding

3. Vital Signs

4. Skin 5. Breasts

SKILL Hand hygiene/gloving, introduces self, checks Pt. ID, assesses environmental safety, IV, foley, etc. Baby blues/depression, labile emotions, tearfulness, flat/appropriate affect, abuse Engrossment, enface positioning, touching, stroking, talking Includes: Apical HR & breath sounds Pain: location, characteristics, int ensity Warmth, moistness, turgor, color, capillary refill Visual Inspection for size, trauma, nipples (flat, inverted/everted) Palpation for consistency, fullness, presence of colostr um

6. Abdomen

Inspection: distension, incision/dressing Auscultation: bowel sounds

7. Reproductive

Palpation: consistency, tenderness Fundus: height, position, character Lochia: character, amount, odor, clots

8. Perineum

9. Bowel/ Bladder

10. Lower Extremities

Intactness, color, tenderness, bruising, swelling, hematoma Laceration/episiotomy: sutures, s/s infection, discharge Urinary: voiding or F/C, bladder distension, dysuria Bowel: last BM, constipation, abdominal distension Inspection: color, calf girth/size Palpation: temperature, tenderness, pedal pulse, DTR’s, clonus

Omitted or grossly incorrect

Partially Incorrectly done

Correct but only partially done

Correctly & Fully done

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