Chapter 85: NaProTECHNOLOGY Nursing

Thomas W Hilgers

Restorative Reproductive Medicine · The Care Team

Chapter 85: NaProTECHNOLOGY Nursing

Hilgers TW

The Medical and Surgical Practice of NaProTECHNOLOGY, 2004

RRM Academy Synopsis

NaProTECHNOLOGY nurses use CrMS charts to guide patient care

NaProTECHNOLOGY nurses use CrMS charts to guide medical evaluation and treatment, according to this textbook chapter by a nurse who works with patients who chart their cycles. The chapter describes the nurse's training, teaching and assessment duties, medication tasks and phone triage.

Key Findings

Nurses in this role hold a nursing diploma or degree, complete a FertilityCare™ Practitioner program, and become certified FertilityCare™ Practitioners when eligible.
In chart review, the nurse clarifies the patient's observation and charting routine and completes a Cycle Review Form that lets the physician plan the next cycle.
Nursing assessments span the patient's concerns, stress and need for emotional support, pregnancy, post-partum depression symptoms, and pre-term labor symptoms.
Teaching includes health care monitoring, early pregnancy care for high risk obstetrical patients, hormone evaluations timed to NaProTRACKING, medication effects on the cycle, and semen collection.
Telephone triage forms a large part of the work: the nurse gathers set information from the caller and judges whether a physician must respond immediately.

RRM Context

Charting gives a clinic information about each woman's own cycle, so testing and treatment follow her biology. Restorative reproductive medicine builds care on that cooperation with the body and on evaluation before treatment, and cycle-timed testing depends on a shared record. A nurse who reads charts well keeps the physician informed and the patient involved, and the couple's fertility stays part of the picture. Within NaProTECHNOLOGY, this teamwork keeps the patient's own daily observations in the clinical record.

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Abstract

Nursing within the NaProTECHNOLOGY practice encompasses preoperative preparation, intraoperative assistance, postoperative monitoring, hormone administration protocols, and patient education on cycle-based treatment timing. Nurses fluent in CrMS charting language and NaProTECHNOLOGY biomarker systems function as clinical integrators, ensuring that laboratory and treatment protocols are executed in alignment with the individualized menstrual cycle data driving each patient's care plan.

Topics

Restorative Reproductive Medicine › The Care Team › Coordinating With Conventional Care · Clinical Practice Operations › Care Team and Roles › Nursing Role

Thomas W Hilgers

Tom Hilgers, T Hilgers

Hilgers et al. 2004, Hilgers 2004

Chapter 85: NaProTECHNOLOGY Nursing

NaProTECHNOLOGY nurses use CrMS charts to guide patient care

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