N 340 Women's Health & Illness in The Expanding Family & N345 Clinical Practicum

Week 1: Study Questions for Labor and Delivery

Chapter 16:
1. What are the three most common fetal presentations?
2. What is the narrowest part and widest part of the baby’s head?
3. What’s the pelvic inlet and the pelvic outlet? What is the narrowest part of each one.

4. What does station mean?

5. How is effacement measured?
6. How is dilatation measured?

7. What are the four stages of labor?
8. In the first stage, what are the latent, active and transition phases?
9. In the second stage, what are the latent and active phases?

10. What is the normal fetal heart rate range?
11. What effect does the labor have on the neurological and gastrointestinal systems?

Chapter 19:

Note: the beginning part of this chapter has some great information and I think it is understandable enough to get the how import an assessment is to the care of patients. For example: great info in Box 19-2! We'll be talking about this in class!
1. What are some differences between true and false labor?
2. What are Leopold’s maneuvers and why do them? Check out the CD video clip!
3. Describe how uterine contractions are timed including frequency, intensity, duration and resting tone.
4. What is a partogram?
5. How can we test for ROM? At the time of ROM (rupture of membranes) what are you going to want to assess?
6. What are some of the guidelines for oral intake during labor?

7. Why do we encourage women to void every couple of hours?
8. What are some of the advantages of ambulating and position changes during labor?
9. What happens in the second stage of labor?
10. What is Ferguson’s reflex?
11. What kind of symptoms do women display in the second stage of labor?
12. What is an episiotomy for?

13. What is the immediate need of the newborn?

14. What is the third stage of labor?
15. What is the normal blood loss during the birth?

16. What is the fourth stage of labor? What is the most crucial assessment we need to make related to immediate care of the mother?

17. What kind of physical assessment do we do in the first hour postpartum?

18. If a woman has an epidural, what do you need to check before she gets up to go to the bathroom?