48^th Global Nursing and Healthcare Congress

Gynaecology and Obstetrics Nursing

The OB/GYN clinical rotation in women's health provides you with the chance to learn about common and uncommon gynaecologic and obstetric disorders. When a patient appears with a primary complaint, you should start thinking about the differential diagnosis right away, but it's also beneficial to identify people as premenopausal or postmenopausal right away. A 20-year-differential old's diagnosis for vaginal bleeding will be significantly different from a 60-year- old's.

Always keep in mind that a patient's diagnosis could be fatal. There are few etiologies that can induce imminent mortality in a patient with vaginal discharge, but an ectopic pregnancy or endometrial cancer can most certainly cause death in a patient with irregular vaginal bleeding. It's also a decent rule of thumb to assume that all women of reproductive age (about 12 to 45) are pregnant until proven otherwise.