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A nurse is educating a group of adolescent girls about the risk of pregnancy. Which statements does the nurse include to help ensure adequate teaching? Select all that apply.

Infants born to adolescent mothers have low birth weights. Infants born to adolescent mothers are more likely to be premature. Infants born to adolescent girls have an increased risk of alcohol and drug exposure.

Which birth control agent requires administration once every three months?

Intramuscular progestin

Which hormone may be excreted in urine during pregnancy?

Human chorionic gonadotropin

A laboring client who is positive for group B Streptococcus (GBS) is given an initial dose of 2 g of ampicillin at 9 AM. According to established guidelines for intrapartum management of this client, what should the next dose be?

1 g given at 1 pm

A client at 16 weeks' gestation is being treated for Trichomonas vaginalis. Which statement best indicates to the nurse that the client has learned measures to prevent a recurrence?

"My partner has to get treated before we have sex again."

A pregnant client who is Rh negative visits the prenatal clinic during the first trimester of pregnancy. She is informed by the primary healthcare provider that Rh sensitization is suspected and that Rho(D) immune globulin eventually will be given. At what week of gestation should the nurse explain that the medication will be administered?

28 weeks

What are the indicators of nutritional risk in pregnancy in a client who is of normal weight? Select all that apply.

Smoker Twin Gestation

Which physiologic alteration does the nurse expect in a client's hematologic system during the second trimester of pregnancy?

An increase in blood volume

Which physiological changes may occur during the first trimester of pregnancy? Select all that apply.

Breast Enlargement Fatigue Morning sickness

What is the desired outcome for the intrapartum client during the third stage of labor?

Firmly contracted uterine fundus

While a client is being interviewed on her first prenatal visit she states that she has a 4-year-old son who was born at 41 weeks' gestation and a 3-year-old daughter who was born at 35 weeks' gestation. The client lost one pregnancy at 9 weeks and another at 18 weeks. Using the GTPAL system, how would you record this information?

G5 T1 P1 A2 L2

A pregnant woman was prescribed a drug for pregnancy-induced hypertension. Later, the client developed muscle weakness, edema, and nausea for which calcium gluconate was administered. What drug was administered to the client to treat pregnancy-induced hypertension?

Magnesium Sulfate

A client who is at 13 weeks' gestation arrives at the emergency department. She states that she began to have spotting and a small amount of vaginal bleeding several hours ago. This is her second pregnancy. Which gravidity should the nurse record?

Multigravida

Which tocolytic agent can be used safely without combining with other agents to inhibit labor and maintain a pregnancy?

Nifedipine

Early in the ninth month of pregnancy a client experiences painless vaginal bleeding and is admitted to the hospital. What should the client's plan of care include?

Placing the client in the semi-Fowler position to increase cervical pressure

A head nurse teaches a group of nursing students about the physiologic changes that may occur during pregnancy. What statement by a nursing student indicates effective teaching?

Renal blood flow is doubled during the third trimester, which increases the glomerular filtration rate.

A registered nurse teaches a nursing student about the physiologic changes that occur during pregnancy and their impact on drug disposition and dosing. Which statement of the nursing student indicates the need for further education?

The hepatic metabolism of a drug is decreased

A client at 7 weeks' gestation tells the nurse in the prenatal clinic that she is sick every morning with nausea and vomiting and adds that she does not think she can tolerate it throughout her pregnancy. The nurse assures her that this is a common occurrence in early pregnancy and will probably disappear by the end of which month?

Third Month

A client at 11 weeks' gestation reports having to urinate more often. The nurse explains that urinary frequency often occurs because bladder capacity during pregnancy is diminished by what?

Compression by the enlarging uterus

Which cervical changes are observed during pregnancy? Select all that apply. The cervical tip becomes soft. The fragility of cervical tissues decreases. The volume of cervical muscles increases. The external cervical os appears as a jagged slit. The elasticity of cervical collagen-rich connective tissue increases.

The cervical tip becomes soft. The volume of cervical muscles increases. The elasticity of cervical collagen-rich connective tissue increases.