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Verified/ latest Version 2024/2025
Postpartum Care of the mother-Assessment of High-Risk
Complications, Module 4 Exam 2-Questions with Correct Answers/
Verified/ latest Version 2024/2025
What terms describe the six-week period following birth?
A: Postpartum, Puerperium, Fourth Trimester
Q: When does postpartum care of the mother and family begin?
A: Immediately after childbirth
Q: What is essential for positive outcomes in postpartum mothers and their newborns?
A: Ongoing education and support
Q: How has postpartum care changed over the years?
A: Shorter hospital stays; legislation in 1996 mandated insurance companies not restrict
coverage to 48 hours for vaginal birth and 96 hours for surgical delivery
Q: What are the Healthy People 2020 goals during postpartum?
MICH-5: Reduce the rate of maternal mortality
MICH-6: Reduce maternal illness and complications due to pregnancy
MICH-7: Reduce cesarean births among low-risk women
MICH-21: Increase the proportion of infants who are breastfed
Q: What should be included in the breast assessment of a postpartum client?
A: Changes noted during pregnancy, nipple condition (erect or flat),
breast palpation (soft days 1-3,
filling by day 3, firm before feeds day 3-5)
Q: What is involution in the context of uterus assessment?
A: The process of the uterus returning to a new non-pregnant state
, Q: What is subinvolution and what are its risk factors?
A: Failure of the uterus to contract and decrease in size; risk factors include multiple
gestation, polyhydramnios, prolonged labor, infection, grand multiparity, excessive
maternal analgesia, full bladder, or retained placental tissue
Q: What should the fundus location be one hour postpartum?
A: At the level of the umbilicus or one fingerbreadth above
Q: What indicates a boggy fundus and what should be done?
A: A boggy fundus indicates the mother is going to bleed; the nurse should massage the
fundus while supporting the lower uterine segment
Q: What causes afterpains and what increases their intensity?
A: Contraction pains helping with involution; more painful for multiparas women and those
with an over-distended uterus
Q: When should spontaneous voiding be expected postpartum?
A: By 6-8 hours postpartum
Q: What are interventions for urinary retention postpartum?
A: Increase fluids, provide privacy, encourage voiding every 2-3 hours, straight
catheterization or indwelling catheter if necessary
Q: When do many women have their first bowel movement postpartum?
A: Day 2-3 postpartum
Q: What are the stages of lochia and their characteristics?
A:
Lochia Rubra: Red, mostly blood, lasts first few days postpartum
Lochia Serosa: Pinkish-brownish, starts day 3-4 postpartum
Lochia Alba: White to yellow-white, starts around three weeks postpartum, can last up to 6
weeks
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