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Understanding the menstrual cycle includes understanding the hormones and organs involved in addition to landmark events that occur during the cycle.  What happens on day one of the menstrual cycle?

Where does fertilization typically occur?

A caregiver brings her 7-year-old son to the pediatrician’s office, concerned about the child’s bedwetting after being completely toilet trained even at night for over 2 years. The caregiver further reports that the child has wet the bed every night since returning home from a 1-week fishing trip. The child refuses to talk about the bedwetting. The nurse notes the child is shy, skittish, and will not make eye contact. Further evaluation needs to be done to rule out what possible explanation for the bedwetting?

The nurse is working with a 12 year old child with type 1 diabetes mellitus. The child asks the nurse why she can’t take pills instead of shots like her grandmother does. What would be the best response by the nurse?

A group of nursing students are preparing a presentation depicting the fetal circulation. The instructor determines the presentation is successful when the students correctly illustrate which route for the ductus arteriosus?

A 12-year-old girl who has not yet reached menarche comes to the pediatrician’s office for her annual well-child check. As the nurse is weighing and measuring her, the child says emphatically that she does not want to get her period. Which response would be most appropriate for the nurse to make to this child?

In order for vaginal birth to occur changes need to occur in the cervix.  All of the following terms are used to describe changes in the cervix during labor except:

Which of the following are one of the “four Ps” of labor or the essential components of labor?  SELECT ALL THAT APPLY.

A 20 year old female is currently 8 weeks pregnant. She had a miscarriage at 12 weeks gestation two years ago. She has no living children. How would a nurse describe this patient using the GTPAL acronym?

A custodian who holds money for the benefit of a minor under the Uniform Gifts to Minors Act may choose to use the money to send the minor to summer camp.