Labor & Delivery
Newborn
Postpartum
Pregnancy
Medications
100

Common side effect of epidural anesthesia

What is maternal hypotension?

100

Fine, downy hair that develops after 16 weeks gestation, decreases as fetus ages

What is lanugo?

100
Risk of bleeding that decreases after 4 hours but can be as long as 12 hours later.

What is Postpartum Hemorrhage?

100

Fertilized egg implanting anywhere except the endometrial lining of the uterus?

What is Ectopic pregnancy?

100

Recommended IM injection site for infants. 

What is the vastus lateralis?

200

Sterile exam reveals patient is 5cm/80% effaced/0 station, she is in which phase

What is the active phase?

200

Blue hands and/or feet, typically within the first 24 hours of life

What is Acrocyanosis?

200

Nursing intervention for a uterus that is not contracted, boggy, and with increased bleeding

What is a Fundal massage?

200

Treatment for a mechanical defect in the cervix using a type of purse string suture.

What is a Cerclage?

200

Drug given within the first hour of birth to prevent infections.

What is Erythromycin Ophthalmic ointment?
300

The four essential components of labor

What is Passageway, Passenger, Powers and Psyche

300

A localized soft tissue edema of the scalp that can cross suture lines

What is Caput Succedaneum?

300

Name one nursing intervention for postpartum hypotension before walking the patient

What is have patient sit on the side of the bed before standing?

300

Type of twinning that shares placenta and amniotic sac

What are Monozygotic twins?

300
Administered IM to prevent hemorrhagic disease

What is Vitamin K or AquaMephyton?

400

The phase of labor that begins with true contractions and lasts until the cervix is 4 cm dilated. 

What is the latent phase of labor?

400

Name four reflexes in the newborn assessment 

What is the rooting, palmar, Moro, and Babinski reflexes?

400

Nursing intervention for uterus placement on the right side

What is have patient void her bladder?
400

Risk factors include: nulliparity, diabetes, obesity, multiple gestation, preexisting hypertension or renal disease

What is Preeclampsia or Eclampsia?

400

The best form to give oral medications to young children. 

What is solutions?

500

Amniotic fluid enters maternal vascular system which leads to cardiac/respiratory collapse and DIC

What is Amniotic fluid embolism?

500

The substance found in the alveoli of mature fetuses decreasing the surface tension and keeping the alveoli from collapsing. 

What is surfactant?

500

Most common cause of of hemorrhage during 3rd stage of labor

What is Retained Placental Tissue?

500

Blood clotting factors such as fibrinogen and other increase during pregnancy, making pregnancy a what state? 

What is hypercoagulable?

500

Two muscles not recommended for infants for IM administration. 

What is the deltoid and dorsagluteal?