Exam 6: Nursing Care of Mother and Infant During Labor and Birth

The nurse formulates a nursing diagnosis for a woman in the fourth stage of labor.What is the most appropriate nursing diagnosis?

While caring for a laboring woman,the nurse notices a pattern of variable decelerations in fetal heart rate with uterine contractions.What is the nurse's initial action?

While discussing labor and delivery during a prenatal visit,a primigravida asks the nurse when she should go to the hospital.What is the nurse's most informative response?

What does the nurse note when measuring the frequency of a laboring woman's contractions?

The physician performs an amniotomy on a laboring woman.What will be the nurse's priority assessment immediately following this procedure?

What do late decelerations indicate? (Select all that apply. )

Why should the nurse encourage the mother to void during the fourth stage of labor?

It is determined that the presenting part of the fetus is the buttocks.At delivery the fetus's hips are flexed and the knees are extended.How would the nurse record this presentation?

A woman is 7 cm dilated,and her contractions are 3 minutes apart.When she begins cursing at her birthing coach and the nurse,what does the nurse assess as the most likely explanation for the woman's change in behavior?

What is the function of contractions during the second stage of labor?

What is the best nursing action to implement when late decelerations occur?

The nurse observes the patient bearing down with contractions and crying out,"The baby is coming!" What is the best nursing intervention?