The nurse teaches a primigravida client that lightening occurs about 2 weeks before the onset of labor.
What will the mother likely experience at that time?.

The pharmacy sends a bag of 150 mLs of D5W/0.456 normal saline with 25 units of Regular Insulin.

The patient is ordered to receive an insulin drip at a rate of 9 units/hour.

What rate will you set the IV pump to deliver? Numeric values only.

A nurse is explaining the fetus's position to a female client whose baby is in the frank breech position.
Which statement by the client would indicate that the teaching was understood?.

After describing continuous internal electronic fetal monitoring to a laboring woman and her partner, which statement by the woman would indicate the need for additional teaching?.

A woman's amniotic fluid is noted to be cloudy.
The nurse interprets this finding as:.

In a client's seventh month of pregnancy, she reports feeling "dizzy, like I'm going to pass out when I lie down flat on my back.”. The nurse explains that this is due to:.

After teaching a group of adolescent girls about female reproductive development, the nurse determines that teaching was successful when the girls state that menarche is defined as a woman's first:.

Which action is a priority when caring for a woman during the fourth stage of labor?.

The skull is the most important factor in relation to the labor and birth processes.

The fetal skull must be small enough to travel through the bony pelvis.

What feature of the fetal skull helps to make this passage possible?

During a follow-up prenatal visit, a pregnant woman asks the nurse, "How long do you think I will be in labor?" Which response by the nurse would be most appropriate?.

The nurse is reviewing the medical record of a woman in labor and notes that the fetal position is documented as LSA.
The nurse interprets this information as indicating which part as the presenting part?.