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License: CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International)
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Aims to provide detailed information about food and beverages consumed by a client in the past 24 hours.
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Essential factors that influence the process of labor and delivery including Power, Passageway, Passenger, Positioning, and Psych.
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A surgical procedure to create an opening in a fallopian tube, often to remove an ectopic pregnancy without removing the entire tube.
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A common gynecological condition that includes a variety of menstrual irregularities.
— Source: Open RN Nursing Health Promotion · CC BY 4.0
Any vaginal bleeding that occurs outside of the normal menstrual cycle, such as bleeding between periods, after sex, or after menopause.
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Blood group incompatibility in which a mother has Type O blood and the fetus has Type A, B, or AB blood.
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The termination of a pregnancy, which can be elective, induced, or spontaneous.
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Localized collection of pus.
— Source: Open RN Nursing Health Promotion · CC BY 4.0