MATERNITY AND PEDIATRIC NURSING BY
SUSAN RICCI 2026 KEY MATERNAL AND CHILD
HEALTH CONCEPTS REVISION PACK A+
◉ Maternity nursing is. Answer: the care given by the nurse to the
expectant family before, during and following the birth
◉ Obstetrician. Answer: a physician who specializes in providing
medical care to women during pregnancy, childbirth, and
immediately thereafter
◉ Pediatrics. Answer: is defined as the branch of medicine that deals
with the child's development and care and the diseases of childhood
and their treatments
◉ morbidity. Answer: term pertaining to incidence of illness and
disease
◉ mortality. Answer: term pertaining to incidence of death
◉ HIPPA. Answer: enacted in 2003, set standards to protect patients'
health information
, ◉ labor, delivery and recovery rooms (LDR). Answer: the patient is
not moved from one area to another, but receives care during labor
and delivery and remains in the same room to recover and care for
her new infant.
◉ 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
SUSAN RICCI 2026 KEY MATERNAL AND CHILD
HEALTH CONCEPTS REVISION PACK A+
◉ Maternity nursing is. Answer: the care given by the nurse to the
expectant family before, during and following the birth
◉ Obstetrician. Answer: a physician who specializes in providing
medical care to women during pregnancy, childbirth, and
immediately thereafter
◉ Pediatrics. Answer: is defined as the branch of medicine that deals
with the child's development and care and the diseases of childhood
and their treatments
◉ morbidity. Answer: term pertaining to incidence of illness and
disease
◉ mortality. Answer: term pertaining to incidence of death
◉ HIPPA. Answer: enacted in 2003, set standards to protect patients'
health information
, ◉ labor, delivery and recovery rooms (LDR). Answer: the patient is
not moved from one area to another, but receives care during labor
and delivery and remains in the same room to recover and care for
her new infant.
◉ 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
