2023 Intrapartum Case Studies As you provide answers to the questions in the following case studies below please refer to your

Intrapartum Case Studies 

As you provide answers to the questions in the following case studies below please refer to your Essentials of Maternity, Newborn, and Women’s Health Nursing textbook’s Chapters 13, 14 and 21 to provide you with pertinent information in reference to these cases.

Each of the objectives listed in the following case studies are in reference to those found in the textbook chapters listed alongside the case studies heading.

Please use this document as your template and insert your responses after each question in a different color or font.

Case Studies, Chapter 13, Labor and Birth Process

1. Emily, age 32, has an obstetrical history of G1, T0, P0, A0, L0. Emily’s week of gestation is 39.1. Emily telephones the health care provider’s office and tells the nurse she believes she is in labor. Based on her assessment, the nurse advises her to have her husband bring her to the labor and birth unit. Emily arrives and is admitted. She is talkative and excited about being in labor and describes her contractions and discomfort as mild. 

The following are the assessment findings of the examining nurse: Maternal vital signs are stable. Fetal heart tones with the external fetal monitor are reassuring. Vaginal exam indicates the cervix is 3 cm dilated, 40% effaced, membranes intact with the presenting part engaged. 

Ten minutes after the vaginal exam by the nurse, Emily says, “I think I just wet my pants.” (Learning Objectives 2, 6, 7, and 8)

1. What questions might the nurse have asked Emily to      determine that she may be in true labor? What prenatal history information      should the nurse have obtained during the telephone call? 
2. Explain the meaning of the nurse’s assessment findings.      Identify the stage and phase of labor, listing the physiologic and      psychological changes during this stage. What positions and activities      would be appropriate for Emily based on the assessment data? Why?
3. Describe      the nursing interventions that would be appropriate for the nurse to      implement based on Emily’s statement that “I think I just wet my pants.”