A nurse is reviewing the medical record of a pregnant woman and notes that she is gravid II. The nurse interprets this to indicate the number of:
A) Deliveries
B) Pregnancies
C) Spontaneous abortions
D) Pre-term births
B
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Gravida refers to a pregnant woman—gravida I (primigravida) during the first pregnancy, gravida II (secundigravida) during the second pregnancy, and so on. Para refers to the number of deliveries at 20 weeks or greater that a woman has, regardless of whether the newborn is born alive or dead. "A" would be used to denote the number of abortions and "P" would be used to denote the number of preterm births when using the GTPAL system.
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