FOR WOMEN’S HEALTHCARE IN ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING 3RD EDITION
BY IVY M. ALEXANDER PHD APRN ANP-BC FAANP FAAN (EDITOR) LATEST
UPDATE
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,CHAPTER 1 WOMEN AND THEIR HEALTH
The United States Ranks 50th In The World For Maternal Mortality And 41st Among Industrialized
Nations For
1. Infant Mortality Rate. When Developing Programs To Assist In Decreasing These Rates, Which Factor
Would Most Likely Need To Be Addressed As Having The Greatest Impact?
A) Resolving All Language And Cultural Differences
b) assuring early and adequate prenatal care
c) providing more extensive womens shelters
d)encouraging all women to eat a balanced
diet
2. when integrating the principles of family-centered care, the nurse would include which of the
following? a)childbirth is viewed as a procedural event
b) families are unable to make informed choices
c) childbirth results in changes in relationships
d) families require little information to make appropriate decisions
when preparing a teaching plan for a group of first-time pregnant women, the nurse expects to review
3. how maternity care has changed over the years. which of the following would the nurse include
when discussing events of the 20th century?
a) epidemics of puerperal fever
b) performance of the first cesarean
birth
c) development of the x-ray to assess pelvic size
d) creation of free-standing birth centers
4. after teaching a group of students about pregnancy-related mortality, the instructor determines
that additional teaching is needed when the students identify which condition as a leading
cause?
,a) hemorrhage
b)embolism
c)obstructed
labor d)infection
the nurse is working with a group of community health members to develop a plan to address the
special
5. health needs of women. which of the following conditions would the group address as the
major problem?
a) smoking
b) heart
disease c)
diabetes
d)cancer
6. when assessing a family for possible barriers to health care, the nurse would consider which factor
to be most important?
a) language
b) health care workers
attitudes c) transportation
d)finances
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7. after teaching a group of nursing students about the issue of informed consent.
which of the following, if
, 2
identified by the student, would indicate an understanding of a violation of informed consent?
a) performing a procedure on a 15-year-old without consent
b) serving as a witness to the signature process
c) asking whether the client understands what she is signing
d) getting verbal consent over the phone for emergency procedures
8. the nurse is trying to get consent to care for an 11-year-old boy with diabetic
ketoacidosis. his parents are out of town on vacation, and the child is staying with a
neighbor. which action would be the priority?
a) getting telephone consent with two people listening to the
verbal consent b)providing emergency care without parental
consent
c) contacting the childs aunt or uncle to obtain their consent
d)advocating for termination of parental rights for this
situation
9. after teaching nursing students about the basic concepts of family-centered
care, the instructor determines that the teaching was successful when the
students state which of the following?
a) childbirth affects the entire family, and relationships will change.