Check Your Understanding Questions

1.

Explain how the nurse can support the laboring person who wants to walk during labor.

2.

How should the nurse explain how the patient can use aromatherapy?

3.

The laboring person is holding their breath during contractions. What breathing techniques could the nurse demonstrate?

4.

Explain how naloxone works as the antidote for opioid overdose.

5.

Explain how the nurse administers Phenergan IV.

6.

Explain how the nurse monitors the person receiving narcotics.

7.

What signs in the newborn necessitate the nurse give naloxone?

8.

Describe the nursing actions surrounding epidural placement.

9.

What side effects are related to general anesthesia?

10.

Describe the differences between epidural and spinal anesthesia.

11.

Describe the nurse’s role in pudendal or local anesthesia placement.