The nurse is called to assist a 29-year-old G1P0 female with a viable intrauterine pregnancy at 42-weeks estimated gestational age who is in active labor. During spontaneous vaginal delivery of the neonate, shoulder dystocia occurs. The nurse should carefully assess the neonate for which of the following common complication of shoulder dystocia?

The nurse is assigned to a patient with chronic alcoholism and alcoholic cirrhosis. Examination of the patient is significant for dilated tortuous veins around his umbilicus and internal hemorrhoids. On the morning of his third day of the current admission, the patient acutely begins to vomit up large amounts of blood. Which describes the pathophysiology that most likely caused this event?

The nurse is inserting a nasogastric (NG) tube into a patient, when the patient begins to cough, wheeze, and have difficulty breathing. Which of the following is the next most appropriate intervention?