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Maternity Nursing: Pregnancy and childbirth Practice Questions and Answers
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Maternity Nursing: Pregnancy and childbirth
Practice Questions and Answers
What is the goal of early prenatal care? - ✔️✔️To optimize the health of the woman and
fetus and to increase the odds that the fetus will be born healthy and to a healthy
mother.
What are the responsibilities of the nurse during prenatal care? - ✔️✔️Teaching
throughout pregnancy, screening at each visit, monitor vital signs, preform assessments
delegated by OBGYN, answer questions, and report any abnormal commissions to the
doctor.
What happens at the first prenatal visit? - ✔️✔️Longest visit: baseline data collected to
compare subsequent visits to. Confirm or rule out pregnancy, ascertain risk factors,
determine due date, and provide education on maintaining a healthy pregnancy
What is included in the patients reproductive history? - ✔️✔️Time of menarche,
characteristics of normal menstrual cycles, first day of last menstrual period, pregnancy
history in outcomes using GTPAL, and any complications occurred during previous
pregnancies.
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Communicates the outcome of previous pregnancies - ✔️✔️Parity, or "para". Includes any
delivery after twenty weeks, living or stillborn. Counts multiples as one single
pregnancy.
All previous pregnancies a woman has had, regardless of outcome. - ✔️✔️Gravida
GTPAL - ✔️✔️Gravida
Term deliveries (at or beyond 38 weeks)
Preterm deliveries (20-37 weeks)
Abortions (number of pregnancies that ended before 20 weeks)
Living Children
Never been pregnant - ✔️✔️Nulligravida
First pregnancy - ✔️✔️Primigravida
What is included in the medical-surgical history? - ✔️✔️Any major medical problem (such
as heart disease or diabetes), a list of all medications she is taking including over the
counter medications and herbal remedies, risk factors for infectious diseases,
immunization status, and risk factors for sexually transmitted infections
What is included in the family history? - ✔️✔️health status of the father of the baby and
any close relatives of the woman and her partner, specifically if there is a history for
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genetic diseases that would require testing or counseling. If you only history for cystic
fibrosis or hearing loss may require genetic testing.the ethnic background of the woman
and relatives of the fetus are important factors to consider as well. sickle cell anemia
and thalassemia are higher in African American, Indian and Middle Eastern descent.
Tay Sachs disease is higher in European Jews and French Canadians. Cystic fibrosis is
higher in Caucasians.
what is included in the social history? - ✔️✔️focuses on environmental factors that may
influence the pregnancy. these include things such as social support, housing in
nutrition, education, type of employment, presence of domestic violence or abuse,
smoking, alcohol, and illicit and over the counter drug use, and hobbies such as
gardening or pet care (can expose mother to toxoplasmosis, which can harm the fetus).
List the laboratory assessments done during pregnancy and their purpose - ✔️✔️CBC:
indicates overall health status of the mother, including anemia which can suggest poor
nutritional status and a potentially poor pregnancy outcome.
HEMOGLOBIN ELECTROPHORESIS Test: done if the woman is at risk for sickle cell
anemia or thalassemia.
Blood type and antibody screen: helps identify women who are at risk of developing
antigen incompatibility with fetal blood cells.
Screens for infection: hep B, HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia
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