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These are the two medications administered to the infant within two hours of life.
What are vitamin K and erythromycin?
The ideal finding for the Ortalani's sign is this.
What is negative?
This is why it's pertinent to maintain an empty bladder in the postpartum patient.
What is prevention of hemorrhage?
These are the 2 things that absolutely must be present and connected at the bedside of an infant in the nursery.
What are oxygen and suction?
These are the two structures that are connected by the foramen ovale.
What are the left and right atria?
This type of lochia is pink/brown in color and is typically seen in postpartum days 4-10.
What is serosa?
This is the hallmark characteristic of a caput.
What is crossing the suture lines?
These are what cause the uterus to shrink down to the (almost) pre-pregnancy state.
What are hormones?
This is the definition of the postpartum period.
When is from the delivery of the placenta until about 6 weeks postpartum?
A patient in c-section recovery asks the nurse if she will ever be able to have a vaginal delivery in the future, considering she had a classical uterine incision. This is the nurse's answer.
What is, "no"? Because that incision type is too risky to attempt a TOLAC.
Ideal DTRs should be noted as this.
What is 2+ ?
If you could only do 2 things for an infant just delivered, these are it.
What are drying and stimulating?
Discharge teaching points for patients regarding sexual activity in the postpartum period should include these.
Breastfeeding is not contraception.
It's not ideal to conceive again within 1-1.5 years.
No intercourse for 6 weeks postpartum.
These are the elements of chemical stimuli that help initiate transition to extrauterine life.
What are decreased PaO2,
Increased PCO2
Decreased pH
Chemoreceptors in aorta and carotid arteries ?
This is the type of bra a postpartum mother should wear if she wishes to bottle feed only.
What is a tight fitting bra?
What's the first thing the nurse should check with an infant who is jittery?
What is the glucose?
This is an ideal platelet level in the postpartum patient.
What is 150,000 to 400,000?
This is the greatest concern in the immediate postpartum period.
What is hemorrhage?
Infants who have been exposed to drugs en utero typically start to show signs of withdrawal around this time.
When is 1.5 to 4 days of life?
This is an appropriate amount of blood loss in a patient with a c-section.
What is up to 1000 mL?
These are the 4 types of stimuli that work together to initiate the infant's first breath.
What are chemical, mechanical, thermal, and sensory stimuli?
These are the two elements of mechanical stimuli that contribute to the infant taking his/her first breath.
What are chest compression and chest recoil?
These are two ways a postpartum patient expels extra fluid.
What are diuresis and diaphoresis?
This is the route of Vitamin K administration.
What is IM?
This is an appropriate amount of blood loss in a patient who delivered vaginally.