Assessment of a woman in labor reveals that the fetus is in a cephalic presentation and engagement has occurred.
The nurse interprets this finding to indicate that the presenting part is at which station?.

Touch and massage can be helpful during labor.
Which touch and massage methods are used in labor? Select all that apply.

A client has just given birth to a healthy baby boy, but the placenta has not yet delivered.
What stage of labor does this scenario represent?.

A nurse is providing care to a woman in labor.

After the assessment of the fetus, the nurse documents the fetal lie.

Which term would the nurse use?

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:.

A client is diagnosed with gestational hypertension and is receiving magnesium sulfate.
The nurse determines that the medication is at a therapeutic level based on which finding?.

While waiting for the placenta to deliver during the third stage of labor, the nurse must assess the new mother's vital signs every 15 minutes.
What sign would indicate impending shock?.

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?

A client is in active labor.

Checking the EFM tracing, the nurse notes variables that are abnormal.

What would be the nurse's first nursing intervention?

The nurse encourages a female client with human papillomavirus (HPV) to receive continued follow-up care because she is at risk for:.

A nurse is conducting an in-service program for a group of nurses working in the labor and birth suite of the facility.
After teaching the group about the factors affecting the labor process, the nurse determines that the teaching was successful when the group identifies which component as part of the true pelvis? Select all that apply.