NURSING OB

1. A 25-year-old gravida 2, para 2-0-0-2 gave birth 4 hours ago to a 9-pound, 7-ounce boy after augmentation of labor with Pitocin. She puts on her call light and asks for her nurse right away, statin g, Im bleeding a lot. The most likely cause of postpartum hemorrhage in this woman is: Uterine atony. 2. On examining a woman who gave birth 5 hours ago, the nurse finds that the woman has completely saturated a perineal pad within 15 minutes. The nurses first action is to: Massage the womans fundu...