The nurse notes on the antepartal history that the pregnant client has an platypelloid pelvis.  This pelvic type places this client at an increased risk for:

A multipara client has just delivered a normal male infant at term.  The HCP is waiting for the placenta to separate.  45 minutes have passed and the placenta still has not been delivered.  The HCP attempts to manually remove the placenta but is only able to remove a portion of it.  What might the nurse anticipate the next intervention would be for this client:

The physician orders 1L of D5NS to run at 100ml/hr.  If you start the infusion at 0800, what time will you need to replace the bag? Make sure to use military time.

The nurse providing care for a woman with gestational diabetes and preterm labor.  She is receiving terbutaline (a beta-adrenergic receptor agonist) SQ every four hours for 48 hours, which assessment should be performed to identify possible side effects of this drug?

The nurse is caring for a laboring primigravida client who is 43 weeks gestation.  Considering the gestational age, which of the following should the nurse carefully monitor this client and fetus for?

The nurse has developed a plan of care for a client experiencing dystocia and includes several nursing interventions in the plan of care. The nurse prioritizes the plan of care and selects which of the following nursing interventions as the highest priority?

A woman in preterm labor at 30 weeks gestation receives two 12-mg doses of betamethasone intramuscularly 24 hours apart. The purpose of this pharmacologic treatment is to:

A nurse describes a client’s contraction pattern as:  frequency every 3 minutes and duration of one minute.  Which of the following responses corresponds to this description?

Which of the following women at 24 hours after delivery is least likely to experience strong ‘after-pains’?

When caring for a client with a third-degree perineal laceration, which of the following interventions should not be carried out by a nurse even if found on standing postpartum healthcare provider orders?