A laboring patient tells the nurse that she needs to have a bowel movement. The nurse recognizes that the woman is most likely in which stage of labor?
a. Active first stage
b. Second stage
c. Third stage
d. Fourth stage
ANS: B
There is a strong urge to bear down (as if with a bowel movement) in the second stage of labor.
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