Labor and Delivery
This assessment monitors the baby's heart rate and rhythm during labor.
What are fetal heart tones.
In the postpartum assessment acronym, this represents the breasts?
What is B?
These assessments should be monitored routinely in a newborn to evaluate physiologic stability.
What are vital signs?
This medication is commonly given after delivery to promote uterine contraction and decrease bleeding.
What is Pitocin/oxytocin?
This is when the fetal heart rate drops below the expected baseline and requires nursing assessment.
What is fetal bradycardia?
This test monitors fetal heart rate in response to fetal movement without intentionally causing contractions.
What is a non-stress test (NST)?
This part of the postpartum assessment evaluates the uterus/fundus.
What is U?
This newborn vital sign is typically assessed by counting the infant's respirations for a full minute.
This medication is a uterotonic that may be used to treat postpartum hemorrhage and should be avoided in patients with asthma.
What is Hemabate (carboprost)?
This finding during labor can indicate that the fetus is descending through the birth canal.
What is change in fetal station?
This assessment involves four specific abdominal maneuvers used to determine fetal position and presentation.
What are Leopold's maneuvers?
This postpartum assessment looks at the bladder and bowel.
What are B and B?
Newborns should be monitored for adequate intake through assessment of this activity.
What is feeding?
This medication is a uterotonic used to treat postpartum hemorrhage but should be used cautiously in patients hypertension.
What is Methergine?
What is cervical dilation?
During a cervical exam, these four findings are assessed to determine labor progress.
What are dilation, effacement, station, and fetal position?
This part of the assessment evaluates the lochia?
What is L?
Monitoring urine and stool output helps evaluate this aspect of newborn adaptation.
What is elimination?
These two types of IV fluids are commonly used for fluid replacement in obstetric patients.
What are Normal Saline and Lactated Ringers?
A fetal heart rate pattern that may indicate decreased oxygenation and requires prompt evaluation is called this.
What is fetal distress/non-reassuring fetal status?
A cervix that is 10 cm dilated and 100% effaced indicates that the patient has reached this stage of cervical change.
These final letters of the acronym help assess the patient's emotional status and other postpartum concerns.
What are E, H, and B?
When assessing a newborn, the nurse should monitor feeding and elimination because they help determine whether the newborn is receiving adequate nutrition and maintaining normal function.
What are newborn feeding and elimination patterns?
These medications may be used for common postpartum concerns involving pain and constipation.
What are ibuprofen and Colace/Senna?
A postpartum patient with heavy bleeding should be assessed for this condition involving poor uterine contraction.
What is uterine atony?