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A nurse is caring for a client in labor, which assessment finding indicates to the nurse that the client is beginning the second stage of labor?

Your post partum patient is complaining of sudden sharp chest pain and dyspnea. The nurse notes that the client is tachycardic and has an increase respiratory rate. The nurse suspects a pulmonary embolism. What initial nursing action should be taken?

A post partum nurse is assessing a mother who delivered a healthy newborn. The nurse is assessing for signs and symptoms of a superficial venous thrombosis. Which of the following signs or symptoms would the nurse note if a superficial venous thrombosis were present?

Correctly match the deceleration with the cause:

Evidence-based practice designed to support normal labor and birth recommend which practice during the immediate newborn period?

Your preterm labor patient needs to be put on magnesium sulfate, you need to educate the patient on adverse effects. What things would you need to educate her on? Select all that apply

Variable decelerations are indicative of?

A nurse is assessing a client who is 6 hours post partum, she complains to the nurse of feeling faint and dizzy. Which of the following nursing actions would be most appropriate?

A woman in preterm labor at 30 weeks of gestation receives two doses of Betamethasone IM. The purpose of this pharmacologic treatment is to?

The nurse providing care for the laboring woman realizes that variable fetal heart rate (FHR) decelerations are caused by?