Labor and Delivery Review questions with answers 2024
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Labor and Delivery Review questions with answers 2024
Labor and Delivery Review questions with answers 2024
Labor and Delivery Review questions with answers 2024
Labor and Delivery Review questions with answers 2024
1. What is tokophobia?: pathological fear of pregnancy
2. What is a nuchal cord?: when the umbilical cord becomes wrapped around
fetus's neck.
3. When should an expectant mother go to the birth center?: Contractions
-Primipara: 5 min apart for 1 hr.
-Multipara: 10 min apart for 1
hr. Ruptured membranes
Bleeding other than bloody
show Decreased fetal
movement
Any other concern
4. What information is collected when a woman is admitted for delivery?: -Per- sonal
data - blood type, allergies, etc.
-History of previous illnesses
-Problems with this pregnancy
,Labor and Delivery Review questions with answers 2024
-Preferences for labor and delivery
-Preparation for childbirth
5. What assessments are done upon admission?: -Vital signs
-Physical exam with a vaginal exam
-Contraction pattern
-Membrane status
-Fetal status (heartrate, etc)
-Psychosocial assessment, cultural assessment
-Preparation for labor and delivery
6. What information is obtained by a vaginal examination?: -Presentation
-Position
-Condition of Membranes --ruptured or intact
-Dilation - enlargement and widening of os ( cm.)
-Effacement
-Cervical length in cm
-Thinning of the cervix (%)
, Labor and Delivery Review questions with answers 2024
-Station
-Engagement
7. What are the 5 Ps affecting labor?: passenger-fetus
passageway-birth canal
powers-contractions
position of the
mother psychological
response
8. What is significant about the inlet of the pelvis?: The inlet is where the baby has
engaged. If the baby engages in the inlet we have a good sense that the
baby will fit through the pelvis. The inlet is the smallest diameter anterior
and posterior.
9. What is significant about the outlet of the pelvis?: The outlet is the ischial spine-
it is the smallest transverse diameter . When the baby reaches this part of
the pelvis it is at 0 station.
10.What part of the fetal head represents the widest part of the head entering the birth
canal?: the biparietal diameter (In a well flexed cephalic presentation)
11.What are the two most important fontanels?: anterior and posterior
Examiner can feel for fontanels during sterile vaginal examination to
ach
other.
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