While caring for a client in labor, the nurse notices during a vaginal exam that the fetus's head has rotated internally. What would the nurse expect the next set of cardinal movements for a fetus in a vertex presentation to be?
1. Flexion, extension, restitution, external rotation, and expulsion
2. Expulsion, external rotation, and restitution
3. Restitution, flexion, external rotation, and expulsion
4. Extension, restitution, external rotation, and expulsion
4
Explanation: 4. The fetus changes position in the following order: descent, flexion, internal rotation, extension, restitution, external rotation, and expulsion.
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When caring for a client after a chemical peel procedure to the face, the nurse would
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What treatment do you anticipate?
What will be an ideal response?