title: Blood tests for investigating maternal wellbeing.
abstract: It is the midwife's role to assess the client's general health, explore her medical, surgical, menstrual, gynaecological, obstetric, psycho-emotional, social and family history thoroughly to ascertain if there are indicators of potential complications in her pregnancy, labour and birth and puerperium. In this article we examine the case of Carla; as there is history of thyroid dysfunction in her family, this could be an indicator towards a diagnosis of thyroid pathology.
authors.affiliation: Auckland University of Technology.
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gallagher
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000379:methods; D008880:Midwifery / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis / Q000379:methods; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000097:blood* / Q000451:nursing* / Q000517:prevention & control; D011295:Prenatal Care / Q000379:methods; D013338:Students, Nursing; D013959:Thyroid Diseases / Q000097:blood* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000451:nursing* / Q000517:prevention & control