NCLEX: Health Promotion and Maintenance Exam Prep Questions And
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Antepartum - ✔✔before birth
calculating due date - ✔✔9 months + 7 days from LMP (only 4% of women give birth on due
dates)
What is considered full term pregnancy? - ✔✔37-42 weeks, otherwise premature or overdue
When is Rhogam given? - ✔✔28th week
What does ultrasound confirm? - ✔✔fetal viability, gestational age, fetal anatomy, location of
placenta
When is amniocentesis done? - ✔✔after 14th week
What is a health fetal heart rate? - ✔✔120-160 bpm
How much weight should a pregnant woman gain? - ✔✔22-27 lbs
Quickening- what is it, when does it happen? - ✔✔first perceptable fetal movements usu at 17-19
weeks
When do Braxton-Hickes contractions begin? - ✔✔20th week
Danger signals of pregnancy - ✔✔vaginal bleeding, continuous headaches, swelling,
dimness/blurred vision, abdominal pain, decreased fetal movement after 24 weeks
Intrapartum - ✔✔during labor and birth
, 4 stages of labor - ✔✔Stage 1: 4-10 cm
Stage 2: complete dilation to delivery
Stage 3: Deliver of baby to delivery of placenta (5-20 mins after birth)
Stage 4: recovery
How many arteries/vein umbilical cord? - ✔✔2 arteries, 1 vein
Apgar - ✔✔Appearance color
Pulse
Grimace reflex
Activity muscle tone
Respiration
Assign 0-2 points for each for a total of 10
Warning signs for newborn - ✔✔sunken or swollen fontanels, fever over 100.4, vomits more than
once in 24 hrs, unable to keep down food or water, not breathing easily
How soon does menstruation begin after birth? - ✔✔usu 6-8 weeks, longer if breastfeeding
infant milestones - ✔✔1-12 months
roll from tummy to side by 10 months
transfer toys rom hand to hand at 9 months
respond selectively to words and vocalize (coo) by age 1
Preschool milestones - ✔✔1-3 yrs
walk by 18 months
speak at least 15 words, imitates
Answers (202472025)
Antepartum - ✔✔before birth
calculating due date - ✔✔9 months + 7 days from LMP (only 4% of women give birth on due
dates)
What is considered full term pregnancy? - ✔✔37-42 weeks, otherwise premature or overdue
When is Rhogam given? - ✔✔28th week
What does ultrasound confirm? - ✔✔fetal viability, gestational age, fetal anatomy, location of
placenta
When is amniocentesis done? - ✔✔after 14th week
What is a health fetal heart rate? - ✔✔120-160 bpm
How much weight should a pregnant woman gain? - ✔✔22-27 lbs
Quickening- what is it, when does it happen? - ✔✔first perceptable fetal movements usu at 17-19
weeks
When do Braxton-Hickes contractions begin? - ✔✔20th week
Danger signals of pregnancy - ✔✔vaginal bleeding, continuous headaches, swelling,
dimness/blurred vision, abdominal pain, decreased fetal movement after 24 weeks
Intrapartum - ✔✔during labor and birth
, 4 stages of labor - ✔✔Stage 1: 4-10 cm
Stage 2: complete dilation to delivery
Stage 3: Deliver of baby to delivery of placenta (5-20 mins after birth)
Stage 4: recovery
How many arteries/vein umbilical cord? - ✔✔2 arteries, 1 vein
Apgar - ✔✔Appearance color
Pulse
Grimace reflex
Activity muscle tone
Respiration
Assign 0-2 points for each for a total of 10
Warning signs for newborn - ✔✔sunken or swollen fontanels, fever over 100.4, vomits more than
once in 24 hrs, unable to keep down food or water, not breathing easily
How soon does menstruation begin after birth? - ✔✔usu 6-8 weeks, longer if breastfeeding
infant milestones - ✔✔1-12 months
roll from tummy to side by 10 months
transfer toys rom hand to hand at 9 months
respond selectively to words and vocalize (coo) by age 1
Preschool milestones - ✔✔1-3 yrs
walk by 18 months
speak at least 15 words, imitates
