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?

A postpartum woman telephones the Birth Center with questions  about her 7-day-old baby.  She is not scheduled for an office newborn weight check until the baby is 10-days old, and she is worried about whether or not breastfeeding is going well.  Your response  to this woman is based on the knowledge that effective breastfeeding for this newborn is best indicated when the baby:

The healthcare provider orders that a client reeive 125 mg IM of methylprednisolone sodium (Solu-medrol) once ASAP.  The supply is pictured below.  How much volume will you administer in this one dose?  Round to the nearest tenth if needed and label correctly.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists define “Early Term” as?