Module 1: Maternal and Child Health
Nursing Exam Questions and Answers
(Graded A)
Obstetrics - ANSWER-care of women during childbirth
Greek word of obsetrics - ANSWER-Obstare "to keep watch"
Pediatrics - ANSWER-It deals with child development and care
Greek word of pediatrics - ANSWER-Pais "child"
Preconceptual and Prenatal Care - ANSWER-It gives the family a emotional preparation
for childbearing and childrearing.
Nearns, 2009 - ANSWER-Nurse's role: promoting healthy growth and development of
the child and family in both continuum: maternal and child health nursing.
Primary goal of MCN - ANSWER-Promotion and maintenance of optimal family health
to ensure cycles of optimal childbearing and childrearing.
Cycle of Optimal Childbearing and Childrearing - ANSWER-Healthy Families = healthy
infants, healthy children, healthy pregnancies, healthy adults, healthy adolescents.
MCN: Range of Practice - ANSWER-Preconceptual health care, care of women during
three trimesters, care of infants during prenatal period, care of children from birth
through adolescence, and care in settings as varied as the birthing room, pediaICU, and
home.
Primary unit of care - ANSWER-Family
, Vonderheid, Norr, & Handler, 2007 - ANSWER-Level of family's functioning affects the
health status of its members.
Healthy Family - ANSWER-Establishes an environment conductive to growth and
health-promoting behaviors that sustain family members during crises.
Philosophy of Maternal and Child Health Nursing - ANSWER-Family centered:
assessment family & individual, Community centered: health families depends on and
influences the health of communities, Evidence based: whereby critical knowledge
increases.
A maternal and child health nurse - ANSWER-Considers the family as a whole an as
partner care, serves as an advocate to protect the rights of all family members,
demonstrate a high degree of independent nursing, promotes health and disease
prevention, respects personal, cultural and spiritual attitudes, encourages
developmental stimulation, assesses families for strengths, serves as an important
resources for families during childbearing and childrearing, encourages family bonding,
encourage early hospital discharge options to reunite families, encourage families to
reach out to their community.
Standards of Maternal and Child Helath Nursing Practice - ANSWER-Developed by the
Division of Maternal-Child Health Nursing Practice of the American Nurses Association
in Collaboration with the Society of Pediatric Nurses.
Standards of Care - ANSWER-Comprehensive pediatric nursing care focuses on
helping children and their families and communities achieve their optimum health
potentials. Best achieved within framework: primary, secondary, and tertiary care
coordinated across health care and community settings.
Standard I: Assessment - ANSWER-Nurse collects patient health data.
Standard II: Diagnosis - ANSWER-The nurse analyzes the assessment data in
determining diagnoses.
Standard III: Outcome Identification - ANSWER-The nurse identifies expected outcomes
individualized to the child and the family.
Nursing Exam Questions and Answers
(Graded A)
Obstetrics - ANSWER-care of women during childbirth
Greek word of obsetrics - ANSWER-Obstare "to keep watch"
Pediatrics - ANSWER-It deals with child development and care
Greek word of pediatrics - ANSWER-Pais "child"
Preconceptual and Prenatal Care - ANSWER-It gives the family a emotional preparation
for childbearing and childrearing.
Nearns, 2009 - ANSWER-Nurse's role: promoting healthy growth and development of
the child and family in both continuum: maternal and child health nursing.
Primary goal of MCN - ANSWER-Promotion and maintenance of optimal family health
to ensure cycles of optimal childbearing and childrearing.
Cycle of Optimal Childbearing and Childrearing - ANSWER-Healthy Families = healthy
infants, healthy children, healthy pregnancies, healthy adults, healthy adolescents.
MCN: Range of Practice - ANSWER-Preconceptual health care, care of women during
three trimesters, care of infants during prenatal period, care of children from birth
through adolescence, and care in settings as varied as the birthing room, pediaICU, and
home.
Primary unit of care - ANSWER-Family
, Vonderheid, Norr, & Handler, 2007 - ANSWER-Level of family's functioning affects the
health status of its members.
Healthy Family - ANSWER-Establishes an environment conductive to growth and
health-promoting behaviors that sustain family members during crises.
Philosophy of Maternal and Child Health Nursing - ANSWER-Family centered:
assessment family & individual, Community centered: health families depends on and
influences the health of communities, Evidence based: whereby critical knowledge
increases.
A maternal and child health nurse - ANSWER-Considers the family as a whole an as
partner care, serves as an advocate to protect the rights of all family members,
demonstrate a high degree of independent nursing, promotes health and disease
prevention, respects personal, cultural and spiritual attitudes, encourages
developmental stimulation, assesses families for strengths, serves as an important
resources for families during childbearing and childrearing, encourages family bonding,
encourage early hospital discharge options to reunite families, encourage families to
reach out to their community.
Standards of Maternal and Child Helath Nursing Practice - ANSWER-Developed by the
Division of Maternal-Child Health Nursing Practice of the American Nurses Association
in Collaboration with the Society of Pediatric Nurses.
Standards of Care - ANSWER-Comprehensive pediatric nursing care focuses on
helping children and their families and communities achieve their optimum health
potentials. Best achieved within framework: primary, secondary, and tertiary care
coordinated across health care and community settings.
Standard I: Assessment - ANSWER-Nurse collects patient health data.
Standard II: Diagnosis - ANSWER-The nurse analyzes the assessment data in
determining diagnoses.
Standard III: Outcome Identification - ANSWER-The nurse identifies expected outcomes
individualized to the child and the family.
