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The nurse is assessing a client in the 4th stage of labor and notes that the fundus is firm, but that bleeding is excessive. The initial nursing action would be which of the following?

A post partum nurse is assessing a mother who delivered a healthy newborn. The nurse is assessing for signs and symptoms of a superficial venous thrombosis. Which of the following signs or symptoms would the nurse note if a superficial venous thrombosis were present?

Correctly match the deceleration with the cause:

Evidence-based practice designed to support normal labor and birth recommend which practice during the immediate newborn period?

Your preterm labor patient needs to be put on magnesium sulfate, you need to educate the patient on adverse effects. What things would you need to educate her on? Select all that apply

Variable decelerations are indicative of?

A nurse is assessing a client who is 6 hours post partum, she complains to the nurse of feeling faint and dizzy. Which of the following nursing actions would be most appropriate?

A woman in preterm labor at 30 weeks of gestation receives two doses of Betamethasone IM. The purpose of this pharmacologic treatment is to?

A woman at 40 weeks gestation is coming to the labor and delivery unit of an induction of labor. A bishop score was done in the office and the physician gave the following scores: 3 cm dilation, 60% effaced, -2 station, cervical consistency is medium, cervical position is midposition. What is the bishop score for this patient? 

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