Blog

A benefit of pushing in an upright position is: 

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?