OB Active Labor With Adoption

Semester 2

Students will care for a multifunction OB virtual patient portraying a young mother presenting to the hospital in active labor experiencing contractions at 38 weeks 6 days gestation, whose pregnancy was discovered at 36 weeks 1 day gestation. The technician or faculty member may role play the client’s mother or the fetus’s adoptive family at the bedside to add additional family dynamics to the scenario.

• Maintain a safe, effective health care environment for a client in active labor.
• Provide patient-centered care by utilizing the nursing process for a client in active labor.
• Relate the client’s health status to assessment findings, medications, laboratory and diagnostic results, and medical and nursing interventions.
• Plan pain management during labor based on client preferences.
• Plan assessments and interventions associated with epidural anesthesia or intravenous analgesia.
• Provide patient education during active labor to the client and her support team.
• Communicate therapeutically.
• Report complete, accurate, and pertinent information to the health care team.

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