A Pregnant Woman's Membranes Ruptured Prematurely at 34 Weeks

question 7

Multiple Choice

A pregnant woman's membranes ruptured prematurely at 34 weeks. She will be discharged to her home for the next few weeks. The nurse planning discharge instructions would teach the woman to:

• A) Report any increase in fetal activity
• B) Notify her obstetrician for a temperature above 37.8°C
• C) Massage her breasts to promote uterine relaxation
• D) Rest in a side-lying Trendelenburg position with hips elevated

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Definitions:

Reduced Cost

In linear programming, the amount by which the objective function coefficient of a variable must decrease before that variable's value increases in the optimal solution.

Bounded Variable

A variable that has upper and lower limits.

Shadow Price

A monetary value assigned to currently unpriced goods or services, reflecting their worth in terms of opportunity cost or their valuation in a constrained optimization problem.

Reduced Cost

In optimization, it's the difference between the cost of a non-basic variable and its contribution to the objective function, used in linear programming.