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.
references:
Sanoski, C. H., & Vallerand, A. H. (2019). Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses (17th ed.). Philadelphiluva, PA: F A Davis Company.
