The postpartum period is the 6-week period after childbirth.
It is a time of rapid physiological changes within the woman’s
body as it returns to a pre-pregnant state.
Women who enter pregnancy in a healthy state and experience a low-risk pregnancy and labor and birth are at low risk for complications during the postpartum period.
Physiological Aspects of Postpartum Nursing Care and Critical
Component: Overview of the Postpartum Assessment).
The CDC and the Department of Health and Human
Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
have set national health goals that are published in Healthy
People 2020, several of which relate to the postpartum period.
The focus on the physiological aspect of postpartum nursing
care is:
- Assessing for early signs of potential complications
- Providing comfort and restoring physiologic functions
affected by childbirth
- Health promotion
- Family education
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