Table of Contents
REQUIREMENTS #
- Maternal and Child Health Record Book (Manual or Electronic)
- Ball pen
- Comfortable chairs
- Conducive room or an enclosed area
STEPS #
- Establish rapport (Refer steps)
- Explain procedure (Refer steps)
- Provide privacy and ensure client assume desired position
- Ask about client well-being
- Take personal history (name, age, town, house address)
- Take social history (occupation, marital status, next of kin etc.)
- Take medical/surgical history (past and present)
- Ask about family history of known diseases such as hypertension, diabetes. Mental disorders, etc.
- Take menstrual history: Age at menarche, cycle, duration of blood flow, LMP etc.
- Take contraceptive history (type used, duration and side effects)
- Take obstetric history (past and present)
- Take lactation history (exclusive breast feeding and duration)
- Explain to client the need to attend Antenatal Clinic and procedures involved
- Ask about the number of previous pregnancies and what happened in each case
- Ask for intervals between pregnancies and any ill health
- Ask about nutritional history (eating pattern, diet, food taboos and allergies)
- Enquire about number of tetanol injections received in lifetime
- Ask about family support
- Express appreciation to client for her cooperation
- Record and report findings to Officer in-charge
