A 22-year-old woman pregnant with a single fetus has a preconception body mass index (BMI) of 19. When she was seen in the clinic at 33 weeks of gestation, she had gained 4 lbs in the first trimester. What should be the expected weight gain at this pregnancy time?

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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A nurse is caring for a client who is in labor. Which of the following nursing actions reflects the application of the Gate control theory of pain?

Physiologic anemia often occurs during pregnancy as a result of

A nurse is caring for a client who is scheduled for a maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein test at 15 weeks of gestation. The nurse provides which of the following explanations about this test to the client?

When evaluating a patient for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), the nurse should be aware that the most common bacterial STI is:
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A woman is undergoing a nipple-stimulated contraction stress test (CST). She is having contractions that occur every 3 minutes (3/10). The fetal heart rate (FHR) has a baseline of approximately 130 beats/min with the decelerations happening after the mother's contractions, Nadirs happening at the end of the uterine contractions. The interpretation of this test is said to be
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The nurse is caring for a woman hospitalized for hyperemesis gravidarum. What should the nurse expect the initial treatment will be?
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A nurse in a community clinic is counseling a client who received a positive test result for chlamydia. Which of the following statements should the nurse provide?

A nurse is caring for an adolescent client who is gravida 1 and para 0. The client was admitted to the hospital at 38 weeks of gestation with a diagnosis of preeclampsia. Which of the following findings should the nurse identify as inconsistent with preeclampsia?

The nurse is reviewing the laboratory results of a patient and notes that the patient has low levels of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH). Which physiologic process would be highly affected in the patient?