The Advantages and Disadvantages of Intrauterine Devices
A nurse is providing client education regarding the advantages and disadvantages of intrauterine devices. What information should the nurse include?
Suggested Maternal Newborn Learning Activity: Contraceptives
A client is prescribed methotrexate 15mg/IM twice weekly. Available is methotrexate 25mg/ml. How may ml should the nurse prepare to administer?
A nurse is caring for a client during a nonstress test. What is the nurse’s responsibility during the test and what teaching should be reinforced?
A nurse is caring for a newborn with fetal alcohol syndrome. What clinical findings should the nurse anticipate?
A client asks the nurse what are indications for a cesarean birth. Provide three (3) reasons a cesarean birth may be necessary.
Suggested Maternal Newborn Learning Activity: Cesarean Birth
A nurse is assessing a postpartum client’s perineal laceration. What information should be noted in her assessment?
Suggested Maternal Newborn Learning Activity: Postpartum Hemorrhage
A nurse is caring for a client with preeclampsia who is receiving magnesium sulfate. What is the antidote for magnesium sulfate toxicity and what signs of magnesium toxicity will the nurse look for improvement in, to tell that the antidote is effective?
Suggested Maternal Newborn Learning Activity: Gestational Hypertension
A nurse is caring for a postpartum client who is breastfeeding her newborn. Identify three (3) teaching points to discuss with the client regarding the postpartum infection, mastitis.
Suggested Maternal Newborn Learning Activity: Postpartum Infection
A nurse is providing teaching to client regarding postpartum hemorrhagic shock. What information should be included?
Suggested Maternal Newborn Learning Activity: Postpartum Hemorrhage
A nurse notes late decelerations on the fetal monitor. What priority actions should the nurse take?
Suggested Maternal Newborn Learning Activity: Fetal Heart Monitoring and Interpretation
The nurse is monitoring newborns in the nursery. What two (2) priority complications and the associated findings would the nurse report to the provider upon admission to the nursery?
Suggested Maternal Newborn Learning Activity: Normal Newborn Physical Assessment
The nurse is reviewing the labs of a client admitted to the labor unit with a diagnosis of preeclampsia. What are reportable laboratory finding in the client with preeclampsia? Suggested learning activity: Gestational Hypertension
The nurse is teaching the client about danger signs in the third trimester. What would the nurse include in the danger signs to be reported to the provider immediately?
What is one nonpharmacological measures that the nurse should implement to manage pain for labor clients during the latent phase of labor?
What is the priority interventions for respiratory depression for the newborn delivered 1-hour after the mother received a narcotic analgesic for labor pain?
When the nurse notes the postpartum mother is non-immune to Rubella (has a titer level less than 1:8), what interventions should the nurse implement?
Suggested Maternal Newborn learning activity: TORCH Screen
