A 19-year-old first-time mother in the second stage of labor who has been given an epidural reports severe, unrelenting abdominal pain and rates it as 10 on a scale of 0 to 10. As the nurse, what should you do? a) Proceed with standard care; the nurse knows that this is typical in the second stage of labor and that younger women and those who are first-time mothers are more likely to report severe pain. |