After a prolonged labor, a woman vaginally delivered a 10 pound, 2 ounce baby girl. In the immediate postpartum period, the nurse would be alert for the development of which complication?

To reduce the risk of hypoglycemia in a full-term newborn weighing 4,000 grams (8 pounds 8 ounces), what should the nurse do?

Following delivery, a father asks the nurse about newborn screening tests. The nurse explains that the optimal time for screening test (Guthrie test), like for phenylketonuria, is which of the following?

Where would the nurse expect to find the fundus in a non-nursing postpartum client who delivered two days?

When the newborn’s crib was moved suddenly, the nurse noticed that his legs flexed and the arms fanned out, and then both came back toward the midline. The nurse would interpret this behavior as which of the following?

To reduce the risk of hypoglycemia in a full-term newborn weighing 4,000 grams (8 pounds 8 ounces), what should the nurse do?

At 1 and 5 minutes of life, a newborn’s Apgar score is 9. The nurse understands that a score of 9 indicates which of the following in the newborn?

While inspecting a newborn’s head, the nurse identifies a swelling of the scalp that does not cross the suture line. How would the nurse document this finding?

A full-term newborn is just born. All the following interventions are important after delivery, but which nursing intervention is important for the nurse to perform first?

The nurse is selecting a pain medication for a three day postpartum client to help alleviate her cesarean section incisional pain. Why might the nurse not select Lortab (Vicodin)?