REVISION HANDBOOK 2026 FETAL
DEVELOPMENT AND CHILDHOOD DISORDERS
◉ free standing birthing centers.
Answer: outside the traditional hospital setting, are popular with
low risk maternity patients. Provide comprehensive care, including
antepartum, labor delivery, postpartum, mothers' classes, lactation
classes and follow-up family planning
◉ cost containment.
Answer: is the efficient and effective use of resources. It includes
monitoring and regulating expenditures of funds and involves the
institutions budget
◉ CNM (certified nurse midwife).
Answer: RN with advanced training in labor, birth, prenatal care,
well woman care for women throughout the lifespan.
◉ Culture.
Answer: is a body of socially inherited characteristics that one
generation hands down tot he next. Consists of values, beliefs and
practices shared by members of the group
, ◉ cultural awareness.
Answer: a conscious awareness of the cultural values, beliefs, and
perceptions of one's self and others
◉ cultural competence.
Answer: a quality attained by cultural awareness and sensitivity that
enables health care providers to adapt practices to meet the needs of
patients' from various cultures
◉ cultural sensitivity.
Answer: an understanding of and sensitivity to cultural practices
and values that differ from one's own
◉ Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs).
Answer: refer to a medicare system that determines payment for a
hospital stay based on the patient's diagnosis
◉ genomics.
Answer: is the study of the functions of all of the genes in the human
body with a focus on their interactions with each other and the
environment
◉ advocate.