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The laboring patient’s fetal heart rate baseline is 120 beats per minute. Accelerations are present to 135 beats/min. During contractions, the fetal heart rate gradually slows to 110, and is at 120 by the end of the contraction. What nursing action is best?

A nurse needs to evaluate the progress of a woman’s labor. The nurse obtains the following data: cervical dilatation 6 cm; contractions mild in intensity, occurring every 5 minutes, with a duration of 30-40 seconds. Which clue in this data does not fit the pattern suggested by the rest of the clues?

A primigravida patient arrives in the labor and delivery unit and describes her contractions as occurring every 10-12 minutes, lasting 30 seconds. She is smiling and very excited about the possibility of being in labor. On exam, her cervix is dilated 2 cm, 100% effaced, and -2 station. What best describes this labor?

Identify whether each organism is gram-positive or gram-negative: Bacillus megaterium: [a] Escherichia coli: [b]

Identify the microscope part.  

Identify the microscope part.  

Name two types of personal protective equipment (PPE) you would be required to wear working in a BSL-2 microbiology lab on campus.

Name two types of personal protective equipment (PPE) you would be required to wear working in a BSL-2 microbiology lab on campus.

Serial ten-fold dilutions are made from a broth culture of Bacillus subtilis in order to determine the number of bacteria in the culture.  Following the dilution series, 0.1 ml of a 1:100,000 (1 x 10-5) dilution is plated, the plate is incubated, and 87 colonies are counted.  Calculate the number of bacteria in the original Bacillus subtilis culture. Don’t forget units! Cannot earn full credit without proper units. Make sure your answer reflects proper scientific notation! Use the ^ to denote an exponent, i.e. 1 x 10-5 would be written as 1 x 10^-5.

Observe the growth pattern in each tube below:    What is the oxygen class of the organism growing in Tube C? [a] Give an example of an organism (genus and species) that belongs in this oxygen class: [b] What is the oxygen class of the organism growing in Tube E? [c] Give an example of an organism (genus and species) that belongs in this oxygen class: [d]