NCLEX RN Practice Question # 613
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Practice Question # 613.
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Pregnancy Signs
Presumptive signs
- Amenorrhea
- Nausea and vomiting
- Increased size and increased feeling of fullness in breasts
- Pronounced nipples
- Urinary frequency
- Quickening: The first perception of fetal movement by the mother may occur the sixteenth to twentieth week of gestation.
- Fatigue
- Discoloration of the vaginal mucosa
Probable signs
- Uterine enlargement
- Hegar’s sign: Compressibility and softening of the lower uterine segment that occurs at about week 6
- Goodell’s sign: Softening of the cervix that occurs at the beginning of the second month
- Chadwick’s sign: Violet coloration of the mucous membranes of the cervix, vagina, and vulva that occurs at about week 4
- Ballottement: Rebounding of the fetus against the examiner’s fingers on palpation
- Braxton Hicks contractions (irregular painless contractions that may occur intermittently throughout pregnancy)
- Positive pregnancy test for determination of the presence of human chorionic gonadotropin
Positive signs (diagnostic)
- Fetal heart rate detected by electronic device (Doppler transducer) at 10 to 12 weeks and by nonelectronic device (fetoscope) at 20 weeks of gestation
- Active fetal movements palpable by examiner
- Outline of fetus via radiography or ultra-sonography