Exam 10: Nursing Care of Women With Complications Following Birth

When the 4-week postpartum patient with mastitis asks the nurse if she can continue to breastfeed, the nurse's most helpful response is:

Although the nurse has massaged the uterus every 15 minutes, the uterus remains flaccid and the patient continues to pass large clots. The nurse recognizes these signs as indicating:

The nurse's first action when postpartum hemorrhage from uterine atony is suspected is to:

A woman has had persistent lochia rubra for two weeks since her delivery and is experiencing pelvic discomfort. When subinvolution is diagnosed, the nurse explains that the usual treatment for this disorder is: