A client with a history of diabetes mellitus (T1 D) is 32 weeks pregnant.The client returns to the clinic for a scheduled ultrasound and non-stress test.
What should the nurse expect the non-stress test to determine?

When a pregnant patient has genital herpes, for which complication is the patient at higher risk than the general population?

A client who is twO weeks postpartum calls the office and tells a nurse, "l am havinga small amount of brownish discharge from my vagina." Which response is appropriate for the nurse to make?

A patient diagnosed with preeclampsia is admitted to the hospital and prescribed magnesium sulfate therapy.
What is the purpose of administering magnesium sulfate to this patient?

A patient comes to the antepartal clinic for her visit and provides the nurse with information.
What piece of information places this patient at high risk for exposure to teratogenic agents?

A client treated for preterm labor is to be discharged to home. Which instruction should a nurse include in this client’s discharge plan? The client should:.

A patient’s amniotic fluid is meconium-stained. Which action should the nurse plan to take?

The newborn of a patient suspected to have used drugs during the prenatal period is admitted to the nursery.The nurse caring for the newborn notes that the infant is beginning to exhibit signs of drug withdrawal.Which action should the nurse take?

A nurse is reviewing laboratory results of a pregnant patient.Which result will require further assessment?

On her second postpartum day, the mother of a newborn says, “The doctor says the baby has physiologic jaundice.
Even though it is supposed to be normal, I don’t understand why it occurs.” Which fact regarding physiologic jaundice should form the basis of the nurse’s response?

A nurse is caring for a client with postpartum hemorrhage.
The provider has ordered Methylergonovine 200 mcg intravenously to be administered stat. The nurse should perform which priority assessment prior to administering this medication?