Maternal and Child Nursing Care Ch 1 Real Exam Questions + Step-by-Step
Solutions
Abortion - ✔✔✔-Can be performed legally until the fetus reaches age of viability and after that
time only when the life or health or the mother is at risk. After viability, rights of the fetus take
precedence
Advanced directives - ✔✔✔-writing a living will or authorizing a durable power of attorney for
healthcare decisions on the individual's behalf
Assent - ✔✔✔-The voluntary agreement to participate in a research project or to accept
treatment
Assisted reproductive technology (ART) - ✔✔✔-term used to describe highly technologic
approaches used to produce pregnancy
Birth rate - ✔✔✔-refers to the number of live births per 1000 people in a given population
case management - ✔✔✔-process of coordinating the delivery of healthcare services in a
manner that focuses on both quality and cost outcomes
Certified nurse-midwife - ✔✔✔-educated in the two disciplines of nursing and midwifery and is
certified by the American College of Nurse-Midwives
Certified registered nurse-anesthetists (CRNA) - ✔✔✔-Advanced practice registered nurses who
have acquired graduate-level education and board certification in anesthesia
Child Abuse and Treatment Act of 1984 - ✔✔✔-Withholding medically indicated treatment is
viewed as child abuse unless care is unsuccessful
Clinical nurse specialists - ✔✔✔-have a master's degree and specialized knowledge and
competence in a specific clinical area
, Maternal and Child Nursing Care Ch 1 Real Exam Questions + Step-by-Step
Solutions
clinical practice guidelines (critical pathways) - ✔✔✔-comprehensive interdisciplinary care plans
for a specific condition that describe the sequence and timing of interventions that should
result in expected patient outcomes
Doula - ✔✔✔-A supportive companion who accompanies a laboring woman to provide
emotional, physical and informational support and acts as an advocate for the woman and her
family
emancipated minor - ✔✔✔-self-supporting adolescents under 18 years of age, not living at
home, married, or on active duty in the military
Evidence-based practice - ✔✔✔-nursing care in which all interventions are supported by
current, valid research evidence.
Family-centered care - ✔✔✔-dynamic, deliberate approach to building collaborative
relationships between health professionals and families that is respectful of their diversity and
beliefs about the nature of children's health conditions and ways to manage them
Federal "Baby Doe" regulations - ✔✔✔-developed to protect the rights of infants with severe
defects
Fetal death - ✔✔✔-death in utero at 20 weeks or more gestation
Infant mortality rate - ✔✔✔-number of death of infants under 1 year of age per 1000 live births
in a given population
Solutions
Abortion - ✔✔✔-Can be performed legally until the fetus reaches age of viability and after that
time only when the life or health or the mother is at risk. After viability, rights of the fetus take
precedence
Advanced directives - ✔✔✔-writing a living will or authorizing a durable power of attorney for
healthcare decisions on the individual's behalf
Assent - ✔✔✔-The voluntary agreement to participate in a research project or to accept
treatment
Assisted reproductive technology (ART) - ✔✔✔-term used to describe highly technologic
approaches used to produce pregnancy
Birth rate - ✔✔✔-refers to the number of live births per 1000 people in a given population
case management - ✔✔✔-process of coordinating the delivery of healthcare services in a
manner that focuses on both quality and cost outcomes
Certified nurse-midwife - ✔✔✔-educated in the two disciplines of nursing and midwifery and is
certified by the American College of Nurse-Midwives
Certified registered nurse-anesthetists (CRNA) - ✔✔✔-Advanced practice registered nurses who
have acquired graduate-level education and board certification in anesthesia
Child Abuse and Treatment Act of 1984 - ✔✔✔-Withholding medically indicated treatment is
viewed as child abuse unless care is unsuccessful
Clinical nurse specialists - ✔✔✔-have a master's degree and specialized knowledge and
competence in a specific clinical area
, Maternal and Child Nursing Care Ch 1 Real Exam Questions + Step-by-Step
Solutions
clinical practice guidelines (critical pathways) - ✔✔✔-comprehensive interdisciplinary care plans
for a specific condition that describe the sequence and timing of interventions that should
result in expected patient outcomes
Doula - ✔✔✔-A supportive companion who accompanies a laboring woman to provide
emotional, physical and informational support and acts as an advocate for the woman and her
family
emancipated minor - ✔✔✔-self-supporting adolescents under 18 years of age, not living at
home, married, or on active duty in the military
Evidence-based practice - ✔✔✔-nursing care in which all interventions are supported by
current, valid research evidence.
Family-centered care - ✔✔✔-dynamic, deliberate approach to building collaborative
relationships between health professionals and families that is respectful of their diversity and
beliefs about the nature of children's health conditions and ways to manage them
Federal "Baby Doe" regulations - ✔✔✔-developed to protect the rights of infants with severe
defects
Fetal death - ✔✔✔-death in utero at 20 weeks or more gestation
Infant mortality rate - ✔✔✔-number of death of infants under 1 year of age per 1000 live births
in a given population
