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The nurse providing care for the laboring woman realizes that variable fetal heart rate (FHR) decelerations are caused by:

Which patterns of the fetal heart rate would not require the nurse to change the maternal position

During labor a fetus with an average heart rate of 135 beats/min over a 10-minute period would be considered to have:

_______ is a system of inequality in which groups of people are divided into ‘layers’ according to their relative power, property, and prestige.

You do this blood type (front type)- what type you would you report?

What does it mean if the Rh control is positive?

What is the purpose of doing a reverse (or back) type?

To assist the woman after delivery of the infant, the nurse knows that the blood patch is used after spinal anesthesia to relieve:

While evaluating an external monitor tracing of a woman in active labor, the nurse notes that the fetal heart rate (FHR) for five sequential contractions begins to decelerate late in the contraction, with the nadir of the decelerations occurring after the peak of the contraction. The nurse’s first priority is to:

The nurse expects to administer an oxytocic (e.g., Pitocin, Methergine) to a woman after expulsion of her placenta to: