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:

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 woman in preterm labor at 30 weeks of gestation receives two 12 mg doses of betamethasone (Celestane) intramuscularly. The purpose of this pharmacologic treatment is to:

You are counseling a client who was just diagnosed at 29 weeks gestational age of having gestational diabetes (GDM) after completing her 3 hour glucose tolerance test. Which statement regarding GDM by the client is false and indicates additional Counseling is required?

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 nurse is developing goals for a community education program. Which of the following methods should be used?

Which of the following needs to be considered when using the Health Belief Model (HBM)?

The nurse is assessing the knowledge of new parents with a child born with maple syrup urine disease (MSUD). This is an autosomal recessive inherited disorder, which means that:

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

A pregnant woman is being discharged from the hospital after the placement of a cervical cerclage because of a history of recurrent pregnancy loss, secondary to an incompetent cervix. Which information regarding postprocedural care should the nurse emphasize in the discharge teaching?

A public health nurse in a large city is planning and developing strategies to disseminate information to residents about infant safe sleep practices. Which of the following best exhibits the nurse's understanding of effective health communication in the community?