Exam 8: Nursing Care of Women With Complications During Labor and Birth

When a woman is admitted to the labor and delivery unit, she tells the nurse that she is anxious about delivery, anxious about the welfare of her baby, anxious about how quickly she will recover…in short, anxious about everything. The nurse is aware that anxiety can affect labor by:

During a strenuous labor, the woman asks for some pain remedy for the sudden pain between her scapulae which seems to occur with every breath she takes. The nurse should:

After an amniotomy, the nurse is alert for signs of infection which would include: Select all that apply.

A woman is having a difficult labor because the fetus is presenting in the right occipital position (ROP). To encourage fetal rotation and pain relief the nurse would position the patient:

Several hours after delivery the nurse finds a woman crying. The woman says repeatedly, "My baby is beautiful, but I was planning on a vaginal delivery. Instead I needed an emergency C-section." The most appropriate nursing diagnosis is: