Gravid
Contraction characteristics of true labor
What is contractions become closer together, stronger, and last longer
What is do not go away with walking or resting
This test which is used all through pregnancy requires gel when it is performed
What is an ultrasound
The term for the thinning of the cervix during labor
What is effacement
The term for the fetal heart rate of 100-110
What is bradycardia
The pregnant patient is placed in this position whenever they are placed onto a bed or gurney
What is tilted using a wedge or roll
The relationship of the fetal spine to the mother's spine
What is Axis
This test measures 2, 3 or 4 markers in the blood and can indicate the need for further testing.
What are the maternal assays (blood test)
AROM is the abbreviation of this
Artificial rupture of membranes or breaking of the bag of waters
Where (location) is the fetal heart rate heard best with external monitoring
What is the fetal back
Primary nursing action to be completed every 2 hours (or per policy) after the pregnant patient's bag of water has ruptured.
What is taking the temperature/vital signs
The term for the fluttery sensation felt by the pregnant woman around the 4th or 5th month of pregnancy
What is quickening
This test that requires contractions is contraindicated if the patient cannot deliver vaginally.
What is the contraction stress test
The name for the external palpation that determines fetal presentation and position for applying the fetal doppler
What is Leopold's Maneuver
This event in the fetal heart rate tracing indicates that fetus is will oxygenated
What is an acceleration
A position that is encouraged for laboring women that facilitates fetal descent and shortens the length of labor
What is upright or squatting (birthing ball or dancing are okay)
The height of the fundus at 20 weeks
What is 20cm or at about the umbilicus
This test is recorded as "reactive" if two events lasting 15 seconds long and increasing 15 beats above the baseline occur.
What is the NST
Position recorded if the fetus is vertex with the occiput toward moms spine and right hip
What is ROP
This part of the fetal heart rate tracing is measured by figuring where the heart rate is the majority of the time. It is expressed as a rounded number ex: 125
What is the baseline
An intervention the nurse may do if the fetal monitor strip exhibits variable decelerations
Position change
The third stage of labor ends with this occurrance
What is delivery of the placenta
This test requires the removal of placental tissue through needle guided ultrasound
What is Chorionic Villi Sampling
The diameter of the fetal head presenting in occipitomental
What is 13.5 cm
This pattern is often seen on the EFM if the patient received narcotics or if isoimmunization has occurred.
What is (pseudo) sinusoidal or saw tooth pattern
The RN will assist with removal of some of the patients blood to treat this when the patient complains of a severe headache after having epidural anesthesia.
What is an epidural blood patch