FOUNDATIONS OF MATERNITY, WOMEN’S HEALTH, AND CHILD HEALTH NURSING TEST BANK ALLCOMPLETE CHAPTERS

Foundations of Maternity, Women’s Health, and Child Health Nursing Test Bank Chapter 1: Foundations of Maternity, Women’s Health, and Child Health Nursing Test Bank MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Which factor significantly contributed to the shift from home births to hospital births in the early 20th century? a. Puerperal sepsis was identified as a risk factor in labor and delivery. b. Forceps were developed to facilitate difficult births. c. The importance of early parental-infant contact was identified. d. Technologic developments became available to physicians. ANS: D Feedback A Puerperal sepsis has been a known problem for generations. In the late 19th century, Semmelweis discovered how it could be prevented with improved hygienic practices. B The development of forceps to help physicians facilitate difficult births was a strong factor in the decrease of home births and increase of hospital births. Other important discoveries included chloroform, drugs to initiate labor, and the advancement of operative procedures such a cesarean birth. C Unlike home-births, early hospital births hindered bonding between parents and their infants. D Technological developments were available to physicians, not lay midwives. PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p. 2 OBJ: Nursing Process: Assessment MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment 2. Family-centered maternity care developed in response to: a. Demands by physicians for family involvement in childbirth b. The Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921 c. Parental requests that infants be allowed to remain with them rather than in a nursery d. Changes in pharmacologic management of labor ANS: C Feedback A Family-centered care was a request by parents, not physicians. B The Sheppard-Towner Act provided funds for state-managed programs for mothers and children. C As research began to identify the benefits of early extended parent-infant contact, parents began to insist that the infant remain with them. This gradually developed into the practice of rooming-in and finally to family-centered maternity care. D The changes in pharmacologic management of labor were not a factor in family-