The pregnant patient who is at 14 weeks' gestation asks the nurse ...

[karlynnae]

The pregnant patient who is at 14 weeks' gestation asks the nurse why the doctor used to call her baby an embryo, and now calls it a fetus. What is the best answer to this question?
 
  1. A fetus is the term used from the ninth week of gestation and onward.
  2. We call a baby a fetus when it is larger than an embryo.
  3. An embryo is a baby from conception until the eighth week.
  4. The official term for a baby in utero is really zygote.

Question 2

The labor and delivery nurse is assigned to four clients in early labor. Which electronic fetal monitoring finding would require immediate intervention?
 
  1. Early decelerations with each contraction
  2. Variable decelerations that recover to the baseline
  3. Late decelerations with minimal variability
  4. Accelerations

[Carissamariew]

Answer to Question 1

1
Rationale 1: The fetal stage begins in the ninth week.
Rationale 2: The embryonic stage ends with the eighth week, regardless of size.
Rationale 3: The pre-embryonic stage is from conception until day 15.
Rationale 4: A zygote is a fertilized ovum.

Answer to Question 2

3
Explanation: 3. Late decelerations are considered a nonreassuring fetal heart rate (FHR) pattern, and therefore require immediate intervention.

[karlynnae]

Excellent

[Joy Chen]

TYSM