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A 23 year old female is admitted for vaginal bleeding following a miscarriage two weeks prior to this admission. She afebrile at this time and is treated with an aspiration dilation and curettage. Products of conception are found. Which of the following should be the principle diagnosis? a. O03.1, Delayed or excessive hemorrhage following incomplete spontaneous abortion b. O08.1, Delayed or excessive hemorrhage following ectopic and molar pregnancy c. R57.9, Shock, unspecified d. T81.10XA, P...

Homozygous - Alleles that are the same are called Phenotypes - Aubrey and Ava are identical twins who were raised in separate homes by their divorced parents. Now, as they enter elementary school, Aubrey shows mild symptoms of phenylketonuria (PKU), but Ava's symptoms are more severe. The girls have different ________ for this disease. Down Syndrome - Which condition involves an extra chromosome? Phenylketonuria sickle-cell disease Down syndrome huntington's disease Klinefelter's sy...

What risks are present in infants born to mothers who receive no or little prenatal care? correct answer: LBW premature birth Maternal iron-deficiency anemia Increased neonatal mortality Describe the fetal response to mothers with diabetes correct answer: Because glucose crosses the placenta, the baby's BG increases as the mom's does. Insulin does not cross the placenta and the fetal pancreas does not produce it until 20 weeks. So, before insulin production, the increased BG leads to r...

A woman in labor for over 12 hours has very little progress. The health care provider thinks that her contractions lack the force needed to propel the infant downward through the birth canal. The provider asks a group of nursing students which hormone may need to be given to increase the force of the contraction. Which hormone would be the best answer? - Answer- oxytocin, a posterior pituitary hormone What terminology would the nurse use to document a newborn who weighs 4,000 grams (8.13 lb) ...

Midwifery Terminology List | 205 Questions and Answers 100% Correct

Gestational diabetes mellitus correct answers Impaired tolerance to glucose with the first onset or recognition during pregnancy Mild preeclampsia correct answers HTN beginning after the 20th week of pregnancy with 1 to 2+ proteinuria and a weight gain of more than 2 kg per week in the second and third trimesters Eclampsia correct answers Severe preeclampsia symptoms with seizure activity or coma HELLP syndrome correct answers A variant of gestational HTN where hematologic conditions co...

Gestational diabetes mellitus correct answers Impaired tolerance to glucose with the first onset or recognition during pregnancy Mild preeclampsia correct answers HTN beginning after the 20th week of pregnancy with 1 to 2+ proteinuria and a weight gain of more than 2 kg per week in the second and third trimesters Eclampsia correct answers Severe preeclampsia symptoms with seizure activity or coma HELLP syndrome correct answers A variant of gestational HTN where hematologic conditions co...

A patient who is expecting her first baby tells the nurse, "I am afraid of the whole birth experience and plan to ask the doctor for a cesarean delivery." Which response by the nurse is most appropriate? 1. "I will get you some material about how labor pain is managed." 2. "Most women avoid cesarean births unless it is an emergency." 3. "I suggest you talk with the physician and get another opinion." 4. "Cesarean will cause you issues with additional pregnancies." - Answer ANS ...

RN Maternal Newborn ATI Exam/ATI maternal Newborn/MATERNITY ATI ALL TESTS COMBINED When caring for a client requiring a forceps-assisted birth, the nurse would be alert for: - ANSWER potential lacerations and bleeding. Forcible rotation of the forceps can cause potential lacerations and bleeding. Cervical ripening increases the risk for uterine rupture in a client attempting vaginal birth after undergoing at least one previous cesarean birth. There is an increased risk for cord e...

the relationship of the presenting part to the maternal ischial spines that measures the degree of descent of the fetus - station the amount of time from the beginning of one contraction to the beginning of the next contraction - frequency the amount of consistency in the frequency and intensity of contractions - regularity include cephalic, breech, shoulder - presentation the fetal long axis is parallel to the mother's long axis. The fetus is either in a breech or vertex presentati...