How can you help this couple if they experience a negative outcome in the birthing suite? What are your personal views on terminating or continuing a pregnancy with a risk of a potential anomaly? What factors may influence your views?

Instructions: Read the following case study and answer
the reflective questions. Please provide rationales for your answers.
Make sure to provide
citations/references(2) for your answers in APA
format. please shouldn’t be writing in the first person.

CASE STUDY: Active Labor: Susan Wong

Mrs. Wong, a first-time mother, is admitted to the birthing
suite in early labor after spontaneous rupture of membranes at home. She is at
38 weeks of gestation with a history of abnormal alpha-fetoprotein levels at 16
weeks of pregnancy.

She was scheduled for ultrasonography to visualize the fetus
to rule out an open spinal defect or Down syndrome, but never followed through.
Mrs. Wong and her husband disagreed about what to do (keep or terminate the
pregnancy) if the ultrasonography indicated a spinal problem, so they felt they
did not want this information.

Reflective Questions

As the
nurse, what priority data would you collect from this couple to help
define relevant interventions to meet their needs?

How
can you help this couple if they experience a negative outcome in the birthing suite? What are your personal views on terminating or continuing a pregnancy with a risk of a potential anomaly? What factors may influence your views?

With
the influence of the recent Human Genome Project and the possibility of
predicting open spinal defects earlier in pregnancy, how will maternity
care change in the future?
Read: Edelman, Kudzama. (2018). Health Promotion throughout the Life
Span. (9th Ed.). Elsevier ISBN: 978-0-323-41673-3
Chapter 15: pages, 348-365
Chapter 16: pages, 366-406

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