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Welcome to the Inpatient Postpartum Depression Risk Assessment
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Instructions: Please review the Inpatient Postpartum Depression Risk Assessment presentation and take the quiz at the end.
1.) Mary completed the PPDRA and answered “NO” to all questions. Mary would be scored as:
A. High Risk
B. Moderate Risk
C. Immediate Risk
D. Low Risk
2.) The completed PPDRA questionnaire should be returned:
A. to the postpartum nurse the evening prior to the patient’s discharge home.
B. By mailing it into the Postpartum Emotional Support Program 1 week after discharge.
C. To the patient’s OB care provider when she goes to her 6-week postpartum visit.
3.) Your patient has decided to place her baby into adoption, and is glad that she has found a loving family who will care for the baby. She does not need to complete the PPDRA since mothers who decide to not keep their babies usually do not develop postpartum depression.
True: False:
4.) Your patient marks “YES” to #11 on the PPDRA and states that she does not think she is worthy of being a mother to this new baby. Along with notifying her OB provider for a psych consult, ordering a social work consult, and calling the Pedi care provider you should:
A. Call DCYF to make safer arrangements for the newborn.
B. Call the clinical leader on Pathways to arrange for the patient to be transferred to their unit.
C. Stay with the mother and ask her to complete the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale
D. Request that the patient’s OB prescribe Zoloft for your patient before you discharge her home.
5.) Lilly is a mother to 3 boys and just had a baby girl. She states that she has never had a problem with postpartum depression after her previous deliveries, and doesn’t see the need to fill out the PPD risk assessment. As her nurse you:
A. Agree with her, since it is very unlikely that she would develop PPD after having 3 previous births without complications.
B. Tell her she can’t go home until she completes the PPDRA.
C. Explain to her that all new mothers are at risk, simply because of fluctuations in hormone levels, and that she can be susceptible to PPD, even if she has never experienced it before.
D. Notify her OB provider to come see the patient and explain that she has to complete the PPDRA.
6.) The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale evaluates how patients have been feeling:
A. Over the course of their pregnancy
B. In the past month
D. Review patient phone information for follow-up call at 3-4 weeks postpartum.
E. All of the answers.
10.) Christine marked “YES” on numbers 2 and 3, and all other items were marked “NO”. She would be scored as:
A. Immediate Risk
B. Moderate Risk
C. Low Risk
D. High Risk
