Chapter 01: Foundations of Maternity, Women's Health, and Child Health Nursing McKinney: Evolve Resources for Maternal-Child Nursing, 5th Edition

MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which factor significantly contributed to the shift from home births to hospital births in the early 20th century?
d. Technologic developments became available to physicians
2. Family-centered maternity care developed in response to
c. parental requests that infants be allowed to remain with them rather than in a
nursery.
3. Which setting for childbirth allows the least amount of parent-infant contact?
c. Traditional hospital birth
4. As a result of changes in health care delivery and funding, a current trend seen in the pediatric
setting is
c. an increase in ambulatory care.
5. The Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program provides
d. supplemental food supplies to low-income pregnant or breastfeeding women.
6. In most states, adolescents who are not emancipated minors must have the permission of their
parents before
d. surgery.
7. The maternity nurse should have a clear understanding of the correct use of a clinical
pathway. One characteristic of clinical pathways is that they
c. set specific time lines for sequencing interventions.
8. The fastest growing group of homeless people is
c. single women and their children.
9. A nurse wishes to work to reduce infant mortality in the United States. Which activity would
this nurse most likely participate in?
c. Volunteering to provide prenatal care at community centers.
10. The intrapartum woman sees no need for a routine admission fetal monitoring strip. If she
continues to refuse, what is the first action the nurse should take?
b. Notify the provider of the situation.
11. Which statement is true regarding the "quality assurance" or "incident" report?
d. This report is a form of documentation of an event that may result in legal action.
12. Elective abortion is considered an ethical issue because
c. a conflict exists between the rights of the woman and the rights of the fetus.
13. Which woman would be most likely to seek prenatal care?
b. A 20-year-old who is in her first pregnancy and has access to a free prenatal clinic.
14. A woman who delivered her baby 6 hours ago complains of headache and dizziness. The
nurse administers an analgesic but does not perform any assessments. The woman then has a
tonic-clonic seizure, falls out of bed, and fractures her femur. How would the actions of the
nurse be interpreted in relation to standards of care?
a. Negligent: the nurse failed to assess the woman for possible complications
15. Which patient situation fails to meet the first requirement of informed consent?
c. The patient is confused and disoriented.