Twelve hours after delivering a 7 lb 10 oz baby girl, the client’s uterus is boggy, midline, 2 finger breadths above the umbilicus with heavy lochia rubra on her pad. Her pulse is 72 and blood pressure is 120/70. What would be the next nursing action after massaging the fundus?

In your attempt to breed the perfect landscape plant for keeping pesky children out of the yard, you’ve developed two true breeding strains: one with long thorns, and the other with short thorns. You cross them together and find all of your plants in the F1 generation have short thorns. Assuming complete dominance between the alleles, what would you expect if you cross two of the F1 plants together?

Your laboring client has been ordered 1,000 ml of Lactated Ringers (LR) to be infused over the next 8 hours.   Calculate the flow rate for this client in mL/hr.  _______

The father of a 12 hour old newborn anxiously reports that the baby’s hands and feet are blue. The nurse confirms acrocyanosis and intervenes by:

Which fetal presentation would be an indication for a cesarean birth?

What would the nurse observe on postpartum day 1 indicating that the client is experiencing the taking-in maternal adaptation/puerperal phase?

The RN is caring for a client whose fetus is estimated to be over 10 pounds. Which delivery complication would most likely place the newborn at risk for a broken clavicle?

A woman is 4 centimeters dilated and wants to walk about the labor and delivery unit. Which of the following criteria will help the nurse determine whether she should walk? (Select all that apply)

Which clinical assessment indicates the newborn is exhibiting withdrawal symptoms from opiates?

The newly delivered infant has been placed on the mother’s chest. What is the priority nursing intervention for the newborn?  Select all that apply.