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Question 11 The nurse caring for the pregnant client must understand the hormone essential for maintaining pregnancy is which of the following?

Question 9 A 33-year-old woman suspects she is pregnant and visits her primary health care provider for confirmation. The office nurse takes the client’s history and performs an initial assessment. After verifying her pregnancy, the nurse collects additional data to determine her risk for common complications of pregnancy. Complete the following sentence by choosing the most likely option for the missing information from the list of options provided. The nurse also schedules the client for a glucose tolerance test because some pregnant women develop _______________________ during pregnancy.

Question 13 A client at 38 weeks’ gestation reports that her baby is moving less this week than last week. Which response by the nurse is appropriate?  (Select all that apply)

Question 19 The nurse is employed at a family planning clinic.  When making out assignments which assignment would the nurse assign to the nursing assistant

A patient presents with a hemisection of the spinal cord at T10. On the ipsilateral side, he has motor weakness and loss of proprioception below the lesion. On the contralateral side, he has a loss of pain and temperature. Which structure explains the contralateral sensory loss?

A 65-year-old male with a history of cervical spinal stenosis falls and develops bilateral upper extremity weakness with preserved lower limb strength and intact proprioception. Which spinal cord landmark is most likely involved?

A 68-year-old male presents with recurrent episodes of intense, electric shock-like pain localized to the right side of his throat and deep in the ear. The pain is triggered by swallowing and speaking. Neurological examination is otherwise unremarkable. Based on the characteristics and triggers, which diagnosis is most likely?

A patient presents with loss of sensation over the upper lip, lateral nose, and lower eyelid following a midface fracture. The affected branch of the cranial nerve exits through which foramen?

A unilateral lesion to the midbrain tegmentum will cause bilateral loss of proprioception and vibration sense.

A lesion in the inferior cerebellar peduncle may result in ipsilateral limb ataxia.