The nurse has done her assessment on the post-partum patient and the patient complains of pain and tenderness in her leg. On physical exam the nurse noted warmth and redness over an enlarged, hardened area. The nurse should suspect ____ and the diagnosis should be confirmed by ____?

By keeping the nursery temperature warm and wrapping the neonate in blankets, the nurse is preventing which type of heat loss?

Signs of post-partum depression or baby blues include all of the following except?

The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale is the screening tool for post-partum depression. Which post-partum patient is at risk for postnatal depression? 

When caring for a post-partum woman experiencing hemorrhagic shock, the nurse recognizes that the most objective and least invasive assessment of adequate organ perfusion and oxygenation is?

While assessing a 2 hour old neonate, the nurse observes the neonate to have acrocyanosis. Which of the following nursing actions should be preformed initially?

Systematic abduction and extension of the arms and fingers flare out and form a ‘C’ is which reflex?

A mother who had a vaginal delivery reports being restless and having insomnia and regular episodes of headache 4 days after childbirth. What would the nurse consider about the mother’s clinical condition from these symptoms?

Parental behaviors can affect infant attachment. Below is a list of behaviors the nurse would be looking for, select all that apply:

The nurse observes that a 15-year-old mother seems to ignore her newborn. A strategy that the nurse can use to facilitate mother-infant attachment in this mother is?