1. A charge nurse is teaching a group of staff nurses about fetal monitoring during labor.

Which of the following findings should the charge nurse instruct the staff nurses to report to

the provider? C. Absent early deceleration of fetal heart rate

2. A nurse is assisting the provider to administer a dinoprostone insert labor for a client.

Which of the following actions should the nurse take? A. Place the client in semi-lower

position for 1 hr after administration

3. A nurse is planning to teach a group of clients who are pregnant about breastfeeding after

returning to work. Which of the following information should the nurse include in the

teaching? B. “Breast milk can be store in a deep freezer for 12 months”

4. A nurse is caring for a 2-day-old newborn who was born at 35 weeks of gestation. Which of

the following actions should the nurse take? D. Insert an orogastric decompression tube

with low wall suction

5. A nurse is providing teaching about terbutaline to a client who is experiencing preterm

labor. Which of the following statements by the client indicates an understanding of the

teaching? D. “This medication could cause me to experience heart palpitations”

6. A nurse if caring for a newborn who is 6 hr old and has a bedside glucometer reading of 65

mg/dL. The newborn’s mother has type 2 diabetes mellitus. Which of the following actions

should the nurse take? B. Reassess the blood glucose level prior to the next feeding

7. A nurse is teaching a prenatal class regarding false labor. Which of the following information

should the nurse include? D. “Your contractions will become temporarily regular”

8. A nurse is assessing a client who is at 37 weeks gestation. Which of the following

statements by the client requires immediate intervention by the nurse? D. “It burns the I

urinate”

9. A nurse is providing teaching about expected changes during pregnancy to a client who is

at 24 weeks gestation. Which of the following information should the nurse include? D.

“You should expect your uterus to double in size”

10. A nurse is assessing a preterm newborn who is at 32 weeks gestation. Which of the

following findings should the nurse expect? D. Sparse lanugo

11. A nurse is reviewing the electronic medical record of a postpartum client. The nurse should

identify that which of the following factors places the client at risk for an infection? D.

Meconium-stained fluid

12. A nurse in a provider’s office is assessing a client at her first antepartum visit. The client

states that the first day of her last menstrual period was March 8th. Use the Nagele’s rule to

calculate the estimated date of delivery (use the MMDD formate with four numerals and no

spaces or punctuation). 1215

13. A nurse is planning care for a full-term newborn who is receiving phototherapy. Which of

the following actions should the nurse include in the plan of care? B. Avoid using lotion or

ointment on the newborn’s skin

14. A nurse is caring for a client who is experiencing preterm labor and has a prescription for 4

doses of dexamethasone 6 mg IM every 12-hr. Available is dexamethasone 10mg/mL. How

many mL of dexamethasone should the nurse administer per dose? (Round answer to the

nearest tenth, use a leading zero if it applies. Do not use a trailing zero). 0.6

15. A nurse is caring for a client who is in labor and request non pharmacological pain

management. Which of the following nursing actions promotes client comfort? C. Assisting

the client into a squatting position

16. A nurse is performing an initial assessment of a newborn who was delivered with a nuchal

cord. Which of the following clinical findings should the nurse expect? Facial Petechiae