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This medication is routinely given to newborns to prevent hemorrhagic disease.
What is Vitamin K?
This hypertensive disorder is characterized by elevated blood pressure and proteinuria after 20 weeks gestation.
What is Preeclampsia?
This surgical count item must always be radiopaque before use in the OR.
What are surgical sponges/raytecs/laps?
This hormone is primarily responsible for milk production.
What is Prolactin?
The normal baseline fetal heart rate range is this.
What is 110–160 bpm?
A normal newborn heart rate falls within this range
What is 110–160 beats per minute?
This medication is commonly used for seizure prophylaxis in severe preeclampsia.
What is Magnesium Sulfate?
The position used to prevent supine hypotension during cesarean birth is this.
What is left uterine displacement/left lateral tilt?
This hormone stimulates milk ejection or “let-down.”
What is Oxytocin?
These periodic increases in fetal heart rate are reassuring and indicate adequate oxygenation.
What are Accelerations?
This APGAR category assesses reflex irritability
What is Grimace?
The antidote for Magnesium Sulfate toxicity is this medication.
What is Calcium Gluconate?
This is the recommended fetal heart rate assessment immediately before a cesarean section begins.
What is documenting the fetal heart rate before prep/incision?
A deep latch should include not only the nipple but also this structure.
What is the areola?
This deceleration type mirrors contractions and is usually benign.
What are Early Decelerations?
The newborn heat loss mechanism that occurs when placed on a cold scale is called this.
What is Conduction?
A postpartum patient saturates one peri-pad in 15 minutes with boggy uterus noted. The nurse’s first action is this.
What is fundal massage?
During an emergency cesarean, this team member is responsible for neonatal resuscitation.
Who is the neonatal/NICU team?
A breastfeeding newborn should ideally feed this many times in 24 hours.
What is 8–12 times per day?
Recurrent late decelerations are most commonly associated with this condition.
What is uteroplacental insufficiency?
A newborn is jittery, lethargic, and has poor feeding 1 hour after birth to a diabetic mother. The priority nursing action is this.
What is checking the newborn blood glucose?
A laboring patient suddenly develops chest pain, hypotension, cyanosis, and disseminated intravascular coagulation after rupture of membranes. This obstetric emergency is suspected.
What is Amniotic Fluid Embolism?
During a cesarean section under spinal anesthesia, the patient reports nausea, dizziness, and blood pressure drops to 70/40. The priority nursing intervention is this.
What is treating maternal hypotension (increase IV fluids, reposition, notify anesthesia, administer vasopressor per protocol)?
A postpartum readmit patient on a medical-surgical unit wishes to continue breastfeeding while separated from her infant. The priority nursing intervention is this.
What is providing a breast pump and proper milk storage support?
A tracing demonstrates absent variability with recurrent late decelerations and fetal tachycardia. This NICHD category is assigned.
What is Category III?