Nursing Science Final Flashcards
Anterior closure of the fontanelles closure happens
18 months
Posterior closure happens
6-8 weeks
True signs of labor are:
Contractions may become more intense with walking graduate last longer and get closer together occur regularly usually felt in lower back radiating to the lower abdomen
Cervix by vagina exam show softening and Effacement and dilation
What are the stages of labor
1.Labor cervical dilation and effacement phases are A.latent B.active C.transition 2.birth of baby 3.delivery of placenta 4.recovery
Woman is at 14 weeks of just gestation the nurse would expect to palpate the fundus at which
Slightly above the synthesis pubis
The musculoskeletal system adapt to changes that occur during pregnancy for pregnant women can expect to experience which change
She will have an increase in lordosis
Which of the following gestational changes during pregnancy would alert the nurse that the woman requires further assessments A. Ptyalism B.pyrosis C.pica D. Decreased peristalsis
C. Pica
What is the term given to a woman who is completed one part is he with the fetus reaching stage of fetal viability
A. Primpara
What is the range of weeks for the first trimester
1-13
What is the weeks for the second trimester
14-26
What is the range of weeks for the third trimester
27-40
Why are fontanelles important to the birth process
Allow baby to Pass through vagina canal
Allow for brain growth during first year
To reassure and educate pregnant patients but the functioning of their kidneys in illuminating waste products the nurse should be aware of
Increased water sensitivity and later compression of the bladder by enlarging uterus result in the urged to urinate even if the bladder is almost empty
I woman who is 32 weeks pregnant is in form for the nurse had a danger sign of pregnancy could be
Alteration in the pattern of fetal movement
which position would be least effective when gravity is needed to assist fetal dissent
Lithotomy
Name the five ps
Passenger passageway powers position of mother psychiatric response
What is the term for the site overlapping of cranial bones are shaping of the fetal head during labor
Molding
What should the nurse take to women about her position during labor
Frequent changes in the position will help relieve her fatigue and increased her comfort
With regard to turn the other adjustments of the fetus during the birth process known as the mechanism of labor nurses should be aware
The effects of the force determining to send a modified by the shape of the woman’s pelvis and size of the fetal head
Well evaluating an external monitor tracing of a woman’s in active labor the nurse notes that the fetal heart rate for fives sequential contractions begins to decelerate late in the contraction with the peak of the deceleration occurring after the peak of the contraction what is the nurses priority intervention
Change the woman’s position
What should the nurse who providing care for the laboring women understand what the late fetal heart rate deceleration
Uteroplacental insufficiency
While evaluating an external monitor treating a woman in active labor labor is being induce a nurse notes at the fetal heart rate begins to do celery at the onset of several contractions and returns to baseline before each contraction and what should the nurse do
Idocument the findings in the patient’s record
