Check Your Understanding Questions

1.

Explain the difference between a normal contraction pattern and patterns demonstrating uterine dystocia.

2.

What causes a pregnant person to be at risk for labor dystocia?

3.

Explain how fetal dystocia affects the second stage of labor.

4.

What is the Bishop score of this cervix: 1 cm, anterior position, 50 percent effacement, –2 station, medium consistency?

5.

Describe the characteristics and risk factors for preterm labor.

6.

Describe common risk factors and fetal complications related to meconium-stained fluid.

7.

Name the risk factors for chorioamnionitis.

8.

Explain how preeclampsia is associated with fetal hypoxia during labor.

9.

What newborn complications are associated with the laboring person who has an eating disorder?

10.

Discuss indications for operative delivery.

11.

Explain the options for subsequent births in a person with a previous cesarean birth.

12.

How does preeclampsia increase the risk for cesarean birth?

13.

Describe the complications of fetal distress.

14.

Describe the risk factors for uterine rupture.

15.

How can the nurse support the laboring person to decrease the risk of exhaustion?

16.

Describe complications related to succenturiate lobe of the placenta.

17.

Explain the 4 T’s related to postpartum hemorrhage.

18.

What is the difference between normal lochia and bleeding related to an undetected laceration?

19.

How does uterine atony contribute to alteration in perfusion to the extremities?