The nurse assesses for signs of infection beginning in recovery directly after birth until discharge home. The nurse is aware that infection can progress quickly and cause morbidity and mortality.

Postpartum hemorrhage is an emergency that is treated by a multidisciplinary team. The nurse is the first line in prevention of PPH by recognizing risk factors and close monitoring of uterine consistency and lochia, encouraging frequent voiding, and assessing the incision and perineum.

nurse — aware that infection can progress quickly and cause morbidity and mortality. postpartum psychosis (PPP) — mood disorder that occurs suddenly and can be very dangerous, with symptoms occurring within a few hours to weeks after birth; characterized by delusional thinking…. quantitative blood loss (QBL) — process of weighing and measuring the amount of blood loss during the birth and immediate postpartum period. early PPH — (also: primary PPH ) hemorrhage that occurs after birth of the placenta up to 24 hours postpartum.