The client has been having contractions every 5 minutes for 7 hours.

Which factor would the nurse use to determine if this is true labor?

A woman attends a prenatal visit and is told to start taking a folic acid supplement.

The Nurse Practitioner explains that this is to prevent:

A woman who is 14 weeks pregnant tells the nurse that she always had a glass of wine with dinner before she became pregnant.

She has abstained during her first trimester and would like to know if it is safe for her to have a drink with dinner now.

The nurse would tell her:

Along with gas exchange and nutrient transfer, the placenta produces many hormones necessary for normal pregnancy.

These include (select all that apply):

Jana purchased an over-the-counter pregnancy test.

The results were positive.

The hormone responsible for a positive pregnancy test is:

The nurse caring for the laboring woman should understand that early decelerations are caused by:

The nurse caring for a client in labor observes the external fetal monitor tracing showing that there are accelerations with moderate variability.

Which of the following actions is most appropriate?

The nurse is discussing a patient’s vaccination history at her 32-week gestation appointment.

The nurse knows that her teaching has been effective when the patient states:

The nurse is aware that labor and birth will most likely proceed normally when the fetal position is:

When administering Pitocin, you should start at a low dose and work your way up slowly to a dose that provides the best contraction rate.

When planning the care for a laboring woman whose membranes have ruptured, the nurse recognizes that the woman’s risk for has increased.