Labor and delivery
- What is a normal baseline fetal heart rate?
- How is fetal variability determined and what terms are used for charting?
- What is considered preterm labor?
- What is an amniotomy, and what important nursing roles go along with it?
- How do you determine and chart contraction frequency, duration, and intensity?
- What is the first stage of labor along with its phases and dilatations? What maternal behaviors are seen and what interventions can be used?
- What happens in the second stage of labor and what nursing care is given?
- What happens in the third stage and what are the nursing assessments that are done?
- What is the fourth stage of labor and what is its significance?
- What are some of the danger signs in labor that must be reported, and what interventions are appropriate and/or administered?
- What is a fundus, and how and why is it checked? When is fundal massage needed?
- What role does the nurse play in the administration of an epidural? Before, during, and after?
- What are some types of breathing patterns that can be used in labor, and when would each be used?
- What is a Bishop score? What is induction? What is augmentation?
- What medications are used for induction, and what is the primary nursing role during an induction?
- What are the nursing responsibilities when administering Magnesium Sulfate?
- What is the Apgar?
- what equipment will you need for a fundal height measurement?
- When are Leopold's maneuvers used?
- What is the purpose of a vaginal examination? Define effacement, dilation, and station.