You are facilitating a first antenatal (booking in) appointment. Consider the care that should be provided to the woman at this first appointment that will establish a basis and understanding from which future care will be provided.
In your essay, you will explain the importance of the first antenatal appointment with particular attention to:
1. Gathering a health history (acknowledging the need to work in partnership
with the woman and consider her social and cultural needs);
2. Providing education surrounding the ‘routine antenatal blood tests’
(first trimester only);
3. Providing education surrounding the screening tests for chromosomal
abnormalities (first trimester only).
You must support your discussion/point of view with appropriate evidence-based practice literature, using the UniSA Harvard referencing system. Your references must include your textbook, and a minimum of four (4) peer reviewed journal articles published since 2015.
This page will help you find information resources to support your argument. Please refer the Learnonline course site for full assessment instructions and marking rubric.
View the Student Engagement Unit's Academic Skills website for help planning your assignment and making sense of the assignment and instruction words.
You may find it useful to make a mind map to organise your thoughts about the topic:
Start by identifying the concepts (main ideas) from your assignment topic prior to searching. Then consider alternative words for each.
As this assignment asks multiple questions, you should perform a search for each sub question. Use the common concepts plus one or more question-specific concept.
For example, for the common concept:
First, identify the concept common to each question in the assignment
Concepts | Alternative Keywords |
antenatal appointment | prenatal appointment |
communication |
education, discussion, inform, interact |
Now do the same for the concepts unique to the sub-questions.
Concepts | Alternative Keywords |
health history | medical history |
culture | ethnicity, religion |
routine testing | non-invasive prenatal testing, NIPT |
chromosomal testing |
chromosomal abnormality screening, Chorionic villus sampling, CVS, amniocentesis, routine screening, first trimester combined screening, FTCS |
Now use AND and OR to combine the keywords in your common concepts; plus one or more sub-question concepts:
antenatal OR ante-natal OR prenatal OR pre-natal
chromosome test OR chromosomal abnormality screening OR Chorionic villus sampling OR CVS OR amniocentesis OR routine screening OR first trimester combined screening OR FTCS
You can also add truncation and phrase symbols
This will help you save time and get relevant results.
* finds any number of letters at the end of a word. E.g. pregnan* finds pregnant, pregnancy, pregnancies etc
Use these symbols to simplify your search string, then you are ready to begin searching:
ante-natal OR or antenatal OR prenatal OR pre-natal
"chromosom* test*" OR "chromosom* abnormality screen*" OR "chorionic villus sampling" OR CVS OR amniocentesis OR "routine screen*" OR "first trimester combined screen*" OR FTCS
Journals are the primary medium for scholarly communication and account for a large percentage of university research output.
If searching a database on Ovid (Medline, Embase, Emcare etc) use the advanced search, and enter each line one at a time. You can then use the search history to combine your searches:
In the Library Catalogue:
For this assignment, you will need to refer to your textbook.
Articles from peer-reviewed journals are of high quality and can be used to support the argument that you are presenting. Articles in peer-reviewed journals must go through an evaluation process with experts in the field before being published. The term refereed is also used.
Watch the following video to learn more about scholarly sources.
You should critically evaluate all resources found to determine their appropriateness for your assignment. The video below explains more.
View the Student Engagement Unit's Study Help website for help writing your assignment, or to make an appointment with SEU staff.
You must appropriately cite (‘acknowledge’) all references used in your assignment to avoid plagiarism.
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