You are the Special Care Nursery nurse reviewing the chart of a 36-hour-old neonate who was born at 36 weeks. Do you understand which of the following would place the neonate at risk for physiologic jaundice?

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?

Which nursing intervention should be immediately performed after the forceps-assisted birth of an infant?

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?

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?

The nurse is preparing discharge instructions for a stable patient with a placenta previa. Instructions should include all of the following except:

Excessive blood loss after childbirth can have several causes; the most common is:

A client has completed the 3-hour oral glucose tolerance test (GTT) after failing the initial screening. The nurse notes the client has failed the 2-hour and 3-hour tests. The nurse anticipates that the client will:

The postpartum nurse identifies a newborn born to a mother positive for hepatitis B. The nurse reports the birth to the department of health for data collection. This is an example of:

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?

Which of the following patients is most at risk for uterine rupture?