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Auther : MRS. RUPALI SALVI
Associate Professor, Dr. D. Y. Patil College of Nursing, Pimpri, Pune.

Title : USE OF OSCE TO ASSESS ANC EXAMINATION.

Abstract : An Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is a modern type of examination often used in health sciences. It is a form of performance-based testing used to measure clinical competence of client.

Systematic supervision (examination and advice) of a woman during pregnancy is called antenatal care. The primary aim of antenatal care is to achieve at the end of pregnancy a healthy mother and a healthy baby. (Dutta, 2004)

A woman plays different roles throughout her life. Pregnancy is one of the important vital events in a woman’s life. Pregnancy can be exciting and scary time as well, because the journey of the fetal growth in uterus in these nine months, 40 weeks, 280 days journey needs to be monitored. (Myles, 2003)

In a developing country like India, one woman in every 16, may die of pregnancy related complications compared to one in 2800 of developed countries. (Census India, 2001) The routine clinical examination of an antenatal mother includes general observation of health, history taking, height, weight, assessment of hemoglobin, blood glucose levels, urine check up, abdominal examination and antenatal advice. (Bennet, 2004)

There are a number of steps a woman can take to reduce high risk delivery. One important step is regular antenatal visits to her health care provider. During these visits the provider can effectively examine the antenatal mother and monitor the progress of pregnancy, also identify and refer high risk pregnancies. (Molly, 2007)

Routine antenatal care is an example of preventive health care at its best. Its aim is to help and educate the mother to achieve optimum health so that the outcome of pregnancy and child birth is favorable both for the mother and her baby. From a cost benefit stand point antenatal care has proved effective at lowering maternal mortality and morbidity as well as improving perinatal outcome. (Holl and Brewis, 1999)



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