The nurse notices a decreased fetal heart rate (FHR) on the fetal monitor tracing and contacts the charge nurse. The charge nurse completes a vaginal exam and can feel a portion of the umbilical cord in the vagina.

Which emergency interventions will the charge nurse implement? Select all that apply.

A nurse is planning home care for a 9-year-old child following an acute exacerbation of asthma. Which of the following of Erikson’s developmental stages should the nurse consider in the planning?

IV calculations: (rate-mL/h and gtt/min)

• IV rate calculations will be rounded to nearest whole number.

Adult calculations: the calculation will be rounded to the nearest tenth. Drug Calculation safety considerations:

• Examples:
  • 5 must be answered as 0.5
  • 5.0 must be answered as 5
• To promote safety, a zero must be placed to the left of the decimal point in answers that are less than one. No zero is allowed to the right of the decimal point in answers that are whole numbers.
• Labeling is not necessary

Available: see drug label above Ordered promethazine 12.5mg IM

How many mL of promethazine will the nurse administer?

The nurse is caring for a multiparous client who has been in labor for 12 hours. The client had a spontaneous vaginal delivery 2 years ago. This was an unplanned pregnancy with someone she only knew briefly. Since finding out she was pregnant, she has been alone. Her pain is now 8/10 and she is becoming fearful that something is wrong since she has been in labor so long.

Contractions assessment:

• Contractions every 3-4 minutes
• Palpating moderate in intensity
• Lasting 45-60 seconds Cervical exam: .3 cm
• 90% effaced . -2 station
• Fetus is in a cephalic presentation.

Which component of labor is keeping the client from advancing in labor?

The nurse is caring for a client in labor. Assessment findings: The fetal heart rate (FHR) baseline is 120 bpm The FHR begins slowing as the contraction starts, and is back to baseline at the end of the contraction There is moderate variability of the FHR Which periodic change will the nurse document in the electronic health record?

The nurse is caring for a client in labor. Which assessment finding will the nurse report to the charge nurse immediately?

The nurse notices a decreased fetal heart rate (FHR) on the fetal monitor tracing and contacts the charge nurse. The charge nurse completes a vaginal exam and can feel a portion of the umbilical cord in the vagina.

Which emergency interventions will the charge nurse implement? Select all that apply.

The nurse is caring for a client on the postpartum unit who had a vaginal delivery with epidural anesthesia 2 hours ago. 1. The client presses the call light and tells the nurse she needs to use the bathroom 2. The nurse arrives in the client's room 5 minutes later 3.

The client is getting out of bed alone What is the best response by the nurse?

The nurse is caring for a client in labor and discovers late decelerations of the fetal heart rate.
What does the nurse know as the reason for this type of deceleration?

A postpartum client has continuous seepage of bright red blood from the vagina. The nurse completes an assessment and finds a firm uterus, 1 cm below the umbilicus, and midline. What does the nurse suspect is the reason for the bleeding?

The nurse is caring for a client during a vaginal exam by the provider. The provider informs the client that he will use the most common mechanical method to ripen her cervix prior to induction of labor. What is the method being used by the provider?