Author Question: The nurse is teaching about the passageway to a group of pregnant patients. What changes to the ... (Read 41 times)

Wadzanai · **on:** Jun 28, 2018

The nurse is teaching about the passageway to a group of pregnant patients. What changes to the cervix should the nurse include in this instruction? (Select all that apply.)

A) Dilates
B) Passively distends
C) Becomes engaged
D) Retracts into the uterus
E) Becomes shorter and thinner

Question 2

A patient comes to the hospital in active labor at 5:30 AM.

She has not eaten since dinner the night before, which was at 5:00 PM. She has a gynecoid pelvis, and this will be her fourth child; the first three were delivered vaginally. It is now 9:00 AM and she is 80 effaced and dilated 3 cm. What nourishment should the nurse allow her upon request?

A) Solid food and fluids
B) Nothing except for intravenous fluids
C) Clear liquids but no solid food
D) Cannot assess with the information given