A man smokes two packs of cigarettes a day. He wants to know if smoking is contributing to the difficulty he and his wife are having getting pregnant. The nurse's most appropriate response is:

A nurse is administering a magnesium sulfate infusion for a client with severe preeclampsia. The nurse knows that the goal of magnesium sulfate therapy is to:

The public health nurse wants to assess potential environmental health issues within a particular district. Which of the following would the nurse include in the assessment?

During labor a fetus with an average heart rate of 135 beats/min over a 10-minute period would be considered to have:

A nursery nurse is performing a shift assessment on a baby who was born 8 hours ago via a vacuum-assisted vaginal birth and notices caput succedaneum. Which of the following statements regarding caput succedaneum is correct?

The most prevalent clinical manifestation of abruptio placentae (as opposed to placenta previa) is:

Caring for a newborn in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), the RN states she recently completed a Finnegan score on a newborn. This tool measures which of the following?

A woman in labor has just received an epidural black. The most important nursing intervention is to:

An infant is in the NICU whose mother was addicted to opioids during pregnancy. The nurse knows that the most appropriate nursing intervention to help with the infant's hyperreflexia is:

In caring for the woman with disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), which order should the nurse anticipate?

The nurse recognizes that a nonstress test (NST) in which two or more fetal heart rate (FHR) accelerations of 15 beats/min or more occur with fetal movement in a 20-minute period is: