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When assessing the fetus using Leopold maneuvers, the nurse feels a round, firm, movable fetal part in the true pelvis and a long smooth surface in the mother’s left side close to midline. What is the likely position of the fetus?

What is the median of the following set of scores? Pain Level X f 4 3 6 2 2 5 5 1 1 4   [color1]

A 38 week patient has been in labor for 25 hours and 15 minutes. She is 6cm/90%/+1. FHT are in the 130s with no deceleration. Contractions are every 2-3 minutes lasting 60-90 seconds. Her amniotic sac was ruptured three hours after she arrived to the labor unit. The nurse anticipates what pharmaceutical intervention based on this assessment?

A client has been admitted to the unit following a thyroidectomy.  Which assessment is the priority for this client?

For the labor nurse, care of the expectant mother begins with any or all of these situations, with the exception of

The physician prescribed 1,400 units of heparin to infuse per hour.  You have available 25,000 unit heparin/ 250ml D5W.  At what rate will you set the pump in mL/hr?

When 0.72 g of a liquid is vaporized at 110°C and 0.967 atm, the gas occupies a volume of 0.559 L. The empirical formula of the gas is CH 2. What is the molecular formula of the gas?

In the reaction 2Cs(s) + Cl 2(g) → 2CsCl(s), Cl 2 is

The client’s 1 hour OGGT is positive, and she returns to the clinic the following day for a 3-hour OGGT.  The results are listed below: Laboratory Test Results: 3 hour (100g OGGT) Time of Test Value Normal Range 0730 109 mg/dL (6.0 mmol/L) Less than 95 mg/dL (5.3 mmol/L) 0830 213 mg/dL (11.8 mmol/L) Less than 180 mg/dL (10.0 mmol/L) 0930 162 mg/dL (9.0 mmol/L) Less than 155 mg/dL (8.6 mmol/L) 1030 156 mg/dL (8.7 mmol/L) Less than 140 mg/dL (7.8 mmol/L) The client is diagnosed with gestational diabetes.   The nurse implements a teaching plan for the client.  Which statement made by the client indicates a need for further teaching?

Ordered: Penicillin 600,000units. Available: 250,000units/ml.  How many milliliters (ml) will you give?