You are counseling an adolescent being treated for syphilis. The ...

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You are counseling an adolescent being treated for syphilis. The most common symptom of first-stage syphilis is
 
  A) a fishy smelling vaginal discharge.
  B) a red macular rash on the palms of the hands.
  C) gray, warty growths on the genitalia.
  D) a painless ulceration on the labia or vagina.

Question 2

Perinatal nurses are legally responsible to:
 
  1. correctly interpret FHR patterns, initiate appropriate nursing interventions, and document the outcomes.
  2. greet the patient upon arrival, assess the patient, and start an intravenous line.
  3. apply the external fetal monitor and notify the care provider.
  4. make sure that the woman is comfortable.

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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

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1. Correct. Nurses who care for women during childbirth are legally responsible for cor-rectly interpreting FHR patterns, initiating appropriate nursing interventions based on those patterns, and documenting the outcomes of those interventions.
2. Incorrect. These may be activities that a nurse performs but are not the activities for which the nurse is legally responsible.
3. Incorrect. These may be activities that a nurse performs but are not the activities for which the nurse is legally responsible.
4. Incorrect. This is one aspect of caring for a woman in labor but does not describe the ac-tivities for which the nurse is legally responsible.