A pregnant woman's amniotic membranes rupture. Prolapsed umbilical cord is suspected. What intervention would be the top priority?
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A nurse in a prenatal clinic is teaching a client who has a new prescription for Dinoprostone gel. Which of the following statements should the nurse include in the teaching?

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Physiologic anemia often occurs during pregnancy as a result of

Through vaginal examination, the nurse determines that the woman is 8 cm dilated, and the external fetal monitor shows uterine contractions every 3 minutes and a duration of 50 seconds. The nurse would report these findings as:

The nurse tells a woman who is trying to conceive to check her cervical mucus for changes. What will she expect the characteristic of cervical mucus to be a few days before ovulation?
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A pregnant woman has been receiving a magnesium sulfate infusion for the treatment of severe preeclampsia for 24 hours. On assessment the nurse finds the following vital signs: temperature of 97.3 C, pulse rate of 88 beats/min, respiratory rate of 14 breaths/min, blood pressure (BP) of 140/90 mm Hg, deep tendon reflexes (DTR) +3, and diuresis 100 ml/3hrs. What should be the nursing intervention?
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A nurse on the labor and delivery unit is caring for a patient who is having induction of labor with oxytocin administered through a secondary IV line. Uterine contractions occur every 2 min, last 100 sec, and are strong to palpation. The baseline fetal heart rate is 150/min, with uniform decelerations beginning at the peak of the contraction and a return to baseline after the contraction is over. Which of the following actions should the nurse take?

The nurse caring for the laboring woman should understand that early decelerations are caused by:

Which fetal heart rate (FHR) finding would concern the nurse during labor?

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A nurse is caring for a client who is in the first stage of labor. The nurse observes the umbilical cord protruding from the vagina. Which of the following actions should the nurse perform first?

A woman at 37 weeks of gestation with a history of asthma, after a domestic violence episode is admitted into the emergency room unit. She suddenly experiences increased contraction frequency of every 1 to 2 minutes; dark red vaginal bleeding; and a tense, severe abdomen pain. The nurse suspects the onset of
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