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The nurse is assessing a 16-year-old sexually active patient in the family practice clinic. The patient’s symptoms include breakthrough vaginal bleeding, abdominal pain, nausea, and fever. The health care provider obtains cultures of the cervical epithelial cells during a Pap smear and orders doxycycline 100mg orally twice a day for 7 days for her and her partner. The nurse understands that this prescription is consistent with the treatment of which medical diagnosis? 

A client is in the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle. Which hormonal change is most significant during this phase?

A patient who is 39 weeks is in active labor. The patient states she feels as if something is coming out of her vagina. Upon assessment, the nurse discovers that the umbilical cord is protruding from the vagina. What should be the nurse’s initial priority action? 

After receiving shift report in the well-newborn nursery, the nurse should see which newborn first?

The nurse is performing a vaginal examination on a client in labor. The nurse finds the fetal presenting part 1 cm above the ischial spines. How should the nurse document the fetal station?

A nurse is assessing a newborn who is jittery, diaphoretic, hypothermic and has poor feeding. What laboratory value would the nurse correlate with this condition? 

A patient who delivered by vaginal birth 10 days ago schedules an appointment with the lactation consultant. The patient has a warm, red, painful breast, and a temperature of 100F (37.7C). What should the lactation nurse do?

A 32-year-old patient presents to the clinic with pelvic pain, irregular periods, facial hair, and oily skin. Based on these clinical manifestations, which of the following conditions do you expect? 

The patient and her partner ask about an upcoming prenatal test that is being ordered based on the couple’s family history of spina bifida and cystic fibrosis. The health care provider has ordered a chorionic villus sampling. What is an advantage of this invasive test over an amniocentesis?

Problem: Use the figure below to answer the question. LO 8c: Draw and label a free-body diagram of the Cylinder B using S.P.R.E.A.D.  Show your work on a separate piece of paper to be uploaded after you complete the quiz. Since your response will be recorded separately, no “answer” is required here.  Simply indicate that the question is “complete” to satisfy EAGLE’s expectations for the quiz.