Blog

A low-risk, nulliparous person with an epidural is fully dilated, vertex, and +1 station and has been pushing for the past 3 hours. Membranes have been ruptured for 6 hours with clear amniotic fluid. The patient is afebrile with a category I fetal heart rate tracing. Appropriate management is:

Which of the following types of pain can be experienced by a laboring person? 

All except one are strategies for modifying the environment for a paranoid patient.

Contraindications for pudendal nerve block include: 

To achieve hemostasis in perineal repair, the midwife places an anchoring stitch: 

Which of the following are the most common muscles torn with a deep second-degree laceration or cut with a midline episiotomy? 

Regarding professional organizations’ recommendations for hydrotherapy and water birth: 

Which of the following is NOT TRUE about labor pain? 

After the birth of the fetal head, the midwife swipes 1-2 fingers along the neck in both directions and determines there is no nuchal cord. What is the appropriate next step? 

Which of the following statements is accurate about laboring people with an epidural?