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NU 404: Unit 1 Study Guide with
Complete Solutions
Maternity nursing care - Ans:✔✔-focuses on the care of childbearing women and their families through
all stages of pregnancy and birth and during the first 4 weeks after birth
Women's health care - Ans:✔✔-focuses on the physical, psychologic, and social needs unique to women
throughout their lives
Certified nurse midwife (CNM) - Ans:✔✔--RNs who have completed a specified program of study and
clinical experience recognized by the American College of Midwives
-have completed their education
Women's health NP (WHNP) - Ans:✔✔-RN who has completed an additional educational program for
certification; emphasis on health maintenance not birthing babies
Changing childbirth practices - Ans:✔✔--early risk assessment: high risk clients priority, nutrition,
smoking cessation (quit by end of 1st trimester; withdrawal, more aggressive, and lower IQ if woman
smokes)
-mid-level providers: CRNP and CNM
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-relaxed rules: pushing, doulas (trained female support), family centered, childbirth education, family
leave up to 12 wks, & healthy people 2020
Abortus - Ans:✔✔-an embryo or fetus that is removed or expelled from the uterus at 20 weeks of
gestation or less, weighs 500 g or less, or measures 25 cm or less
Birth rate - Ans:✔✔-the number of births in a year for every 1,000 people in a population
Fertility rate - Ans:✔✔-the number of births per 1000 women b/t ages of 15-44 years calculated on a
yearly basis
infant mortality rate - Ans:✔✔-number of deaths for infants younger than 1 year of age per 1000 live
births
Maternal mortality rate - Ans:✔✔-number of maternal deaths from births and complications of
pregnancy, childbirth, and puerperium(first 42 days after the end of the pregnancy) per 100,000 live
births
Neonatal mortality rate - Ans:✔✔-number of stillbirths and number of neonatal deaths per 1000 live
births
Stillbirth - Ans:✔✔-an infant who, at birth, demonstrates no signs of life such as breathing, heartbeat, or
voluntary muscle movements
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High infant mortality rate and incidence of LBW infants - Ans:✔✔-current trends in fertility and
birthrates?
Preventing LBW - Ans:✔✔--regionalization of perinatal care
-high technology care
-community based care
-childbirth practices
-proper nutrition, education, smoking cessation, making sure at risk mothers keep their appts
-level of hospital prevents infant mortality
Female genital mutilation - Ans:✔✔--international concern
-surgically close labia majora or circumcise woman by cutting off clitoris sometimes for religious regions
Human trafficking - Ans:✔✔--international concern
-if you have pt that this is happening to then quietly address it
-same with women's health violence
Informed consent - Ans:✔✔--standards of practice: evidence based practice
-standard of care: reasonable prudent nurse
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FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
NU 404: Unit 1 Study Guide with
Complete Solutions
Maternity nursing care - Ans:✔✔-focuses on the care of childbearing women and their families through
all stages of pregnancy and birth and during the first 4 weeks after birth
Women's health care - Ans:✔✔-focuses on the physical, psychologic, and social needs unique to women
throughout their lives
Certified nurse midwife (CNM) - Ans:✔✔--RNs who have completed a specified program of study and
clinical experience recognized by the American College of Midwives
-have completed their education
Women's health NP (WHNP) - Ans:✔✔-RN who has completed an additional educational program for
certification; emphasis on health maintenance not birthing babies
Changing childbirth practices - Ans:✔✔--early risk assessment: high risk clients priority, nutrition,
smoking cessation (quit by end of 1st trimester; withdrawal, more aggressive, and lower IQ if woman
smokes)
-mid-level providers: CRNP and CNM
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-relaxed rules: pushing, doulas (trained female support), family centered, childbirth education, family
leave up to 12 wks, & healthy people 2020
Abortus - Ans:✔✔-an embryo or fetus that is removed or expelled from the uterus at 20 weeks of
gestation or less, weighs 500 g or less, or measures 25 cm or less
Birth rate - Ans:✔✔-the number of births in a year for every 1,000 people in a population
Fertility rate - Ans:✔✔-the number of births per 1000 women b/t ages of 15-44 years calculated on a
yearly basis
infant mortality rate - Ans:✔✔-number of deaths for infants younger than 1 year of age per 1000 live
births
Maternal mortality rate - Ans:✔✔-number of maternal deaths from births and complications of
pregnancy, childbirth, and puerperium(first 42 days after the end of the pregnancy) per 100,000 live
births
Neonatal mortality rate - Ans:✔✔-number of stillbirths and number of neonatal deaths per 1000 live
births
Stillbirth - Ans:✔✔-an infant who, at birth, demonstrates no signs of life such as breathing, heartbeat, or
voluntary muscle movements
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High infant mortality rate and incidence of LBW infants - Ans:✔✔-current trends in fertility and
birthrates?
Preventing LBW - Ans:✔✔--regionalization of perinatal care
-high technology care
-community based care
-childbirth practices
-proper nutrition, education, smoking cessation, making sure at risk mothers keep their appts
-level of hospital prevents infant mortality
Female genital mutilation - Ans:✔✔--international concern
-surgically close labia majora or circumcise woman by cutting off clitoris sometimes for religious regions
Human trafficking - Ans:✔✔--international concern
-if you have pt that this is happening to then quietly address it
-same with women's health violence
Informed consent - Ans:✔✔--standards of practice: evidence based practice
-standard of care: reasonable prudent nurse
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