Exam 15: Caring for the Postpartal Woman and Her Family

A nurse manager has many at-risk mothers in the labor and birth unit.What policy can the manager adapt that would best facilitate mother-baby bonding?

A woman with a history of mild heart failure has just vaginally given birth to a healthy baby.What action by the nurse is most important?

The perinatal nurse listens as the patient describes her labor and emergency cesarean birth.Providing an opportunity to review this experience may assist the patient in doing which of the following?

The perinatal nurse describes the need for an assessment for deep vein thrombosis (DVT)in the postpartum patient.Which of the following is one test that can be used as a screening measure for DVT?

A woman has painful hemorrhoids after a vaginal birth.Her husband brings her a donut pillow to sit on.What response by the nurse is best?

A nurse is caring for a woman who just experienced a cesarean birth under epidural anesthesia.What interventions are important to include on this woman's care plan?

The perinatal nurse teaches the postpartum woman about the normal process of diuresis that she can expect to occur approximately 6 to 8 hours after childbirth.Which hormones are responsible for the diuresis?

A woman complains of perineal pain.The nurse assesses swelling,but sees no other abnormalities.The woman does not wish pharmacological treatment.What suggestion by the nurse is most appropriate?