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NUR242 Maternal Galen College Of Nursing - Question and answers correctly solved NUR242 Maternal/Newborn Test 2 Material Lie - correct answer The relationship between long axis of fetus and long axis of mother; how is the baby lying in the mother Longitudinal (up and down); long ways ...

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NUR242 Maternal/Newborn Test 2
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Lie - correct answer ✔The relationship between long axis of fetus and long
axis of mother; how is the baby lying in the mother


Longitudinal (up and down); long ways


Transverse (across)


Attitude - correct answer ✔The degree of flexion the fetus assumes in utero


- want the baby's head to be flexed forward towards arms and legs (chin to
chest)


Station - correct answer ✔Measurement of fetal head in proximity to ischial
spine


Minus-station: head NOT engaged


Zero-station: head engaged


Plus-station: head is below ischial spine


Effacement - correct answer ✔Thinning out of cervix; occurs before dilation
on primipara, at same time as dilation in multipara

, - It is subjective; needs to be at 100% before the mother can push


Dilation - correct answer ✔External os enlarging


Described in centimeters; 10cm = complete


Evaluated with vaginal exam; estimated by touch


Lightening - correct answer ✔Movement of fetus and uterus down into pelvic
cavity (makes breathing easier towards end of pregnancy)


Baby drops, ready for labor


Engagement - correct answer ✔Widest part of head into pelvis


Often happens before onset of labor in primipara


Position - correct answer ✔Relationship of presenting part to specific
quadrant of the maternal pelvis


Various Pelvic Shapes - correct answer ✔Gynecoid
Anthropoid
Android
Platypelloid


Gynecoid and Anthropoid = most favorable

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