The older primipara: implications for nurses.
The professional nurse plays a major role in counseling the older couple throughout the pregnancy, labor, delivery, and puerperium. Nurses need to keep abreast of the new testing and monitoring procedures used during pregnancy and labor and delivery, and these procedures need to be explained to the pregnant couple. Individual and group teaching are ways that the nurse can counsel and support the older couple, thereby increasing their confidence in the health team and their ability to incorporate a child into their lifestyle. In this article these concerns are addressed as related to 1) physical needs and 2) psychological needs.
D000328:Adult; D003376:Counseling; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D005323:Fetal Monitoring; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008423:Maternal Age; D009773:Obstetric Nursing; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D010298:Parity; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications; D018566:Pregnancy, High-Risk