ATI MATERNITY PROCTORED EXAM with verified
questions and answers 2025/2026 graded A+
1. Which interventions would help alleviate the problems associated with
access to health care for maternity patients (Select all that apply)?
a. Provide transportation to prenatal visits.
b. Provide childcare so that a pregnant woman may keep prenatal visits.
c. Mandate that physicians make house calls.
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d. Provide low-cost or no-cost health care insurance.
e. Provide job training.
ANS: A, B, D
,Lack of transportation to visits, lack of childcare, and lack of affordable
health insurance are prohibitive factors associated with lack of prenatal care.
House calls are not a cost-effective approach to health care. Although job
training may result in employment and income, the likelihood of significant
changes during the time frame of the pregnancy is remote.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Implementation REF: 5
OBJ: Nursing Process: Planning MSC: Client Needs: Health Promotion and
Maintenance
2. Which of the following statements indicate that the nurse is
practicing appropriate family-centered care techniques (Select all that
apply)?
a. The nurse commands the mother to do as she is told.
b. The nurse allows time for the partner to ask questions.
c. The nurse allows the mother and father to make choices when possible.
d. The nurse informs the family about what is going to happen.
e. The nurse tells the patients sister, who is a nurse, that she cannot be in the
room during the delivery.
ANS: B, C
Including the partner in the care process and allowing the couple to make
choices are important elements of family-centered care. The nurse should
never tell the mother what to do. Family-centered care involves collaboration
between the health care team and the client. Unless an institutional policy
limits the number of attendants at a delivery, the client should be allowed to
have whomever she wants present (except when the situation is an emergency
and guests are asked to leave).
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Analysis REF: 8
OBJ: Nursing Process: Implementation MSC: Client Needs: Psychosocial
Integrity
, MATCHING
Medical errors are a leading cause of death in the United States. The National
Quality Forum has recommended numerous safe practices that nursing can
promote to reduce errors. Match each safe practice with the correct statement.
a. Ask the patient to teach back.
b. Comply with CDC guidelines.
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c. Ensure that information is documented in a timely manner.
d. Promote interventions that will reduce patient risk.
e. Reduce exposure to radiation.
27. Hand hygiene
3. Informed consent
29. Culture measurement, feedback, and intervention
30. Pediatric imaging
31. Patient care information
27. ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Application
REF: 5 OBJ: Nursing Process: Implementation
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment
NOT: The National Quality Forum updated its publication Safe Practices for
Better Healthcare in 2010, outlining 24 safe practices that should be used
in all health care settings to reduce the risk of harm from the
environment of care, processes, and systems. These are only a few of
the recommended practices; however, nurses should be familiar with
questions and answers 2025/2026 graded A+
1. Which interventions would help alleviate the problems associated with
access to health care for maternity patients (Select all that apply)?
a. Provide transportation to prenatal visits.
b. Provide childcare so that a pregnant woman may keep prenatal visits.
c. Mandate that physicians make house calls.
Test Bank - Maternal Child Nursing Care by Perry (6th Edition, 2017) 13
d. Provide low-cost or no-cost health care insurance.
e. Provide job training.
ANS: A, B, D
,Lack of transportation to visits, lack of childcare, and lack of affordable
health insurance are prohibitive factors associated with lack of prenatal care.
House calls are not a cost-effective approach to health care. Although job
training may result in employment and income, the likelihood of significant
changes during the time frame of the pregnancy is remote.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Implementation REF: 5
OBJ: Nursing Process: Planning MSC: Client Needs: Health Promotion and
Maintenance
2. Which of the following statements indicate that the nurse is
practicing appropriate family-centered care techniques (Select all that
apply)?
a. The nurse commands the mother to do as she is told.
b. The nurse allows time for the partner to ask questions.
c. The nurse allows the mother and father to make choices when possible.
d. The nurse informs the family about what is going to happen.
e. The nurse tells the patients sister, who is a nurse, that she cannot be in the
room during the delivery.
ANS: B, C
Including the partner in the care process and allowing the couple to make
choices are important elements of family-centered care. The nurse should
never tell the mother what to do. Family-centered care involves collaboration
between the health care team and the client. Unless an institutional policy
limits the number of attendants at a delivery, the client should be allowed to
have whomever she wants present (except when the situation is an emergency
and guests are asked to leave).
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Analysis REF: 8
OBJ: Nursing Process: Implementation MSC: Client Needs: Psychosocial
Integrity
, MATCHING
Medical errors are a leading cause of death in the United States. The National
Quality Forum has recommended numerous safe practices that nursing can
promote to reduce errors. Match each safe practice with the correct statement.
a. Ask the patient to teach back.
b. Comply with CDC guidelines.
Test Bank - Maternal Child Nursing Care by Perry (6th Edition, 2017) 14
c. Ensure that information is documented in a timely manner.
d. Promote interventions that will reduce patient risk.
e. Reduce exposure to radiation.
27. Hand hygiene
3. Informed consent
29. Culture measurement, feedback, and intervention
30. Pediatric imaging
31. Patient care information
27. ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Application
REF: 5 OBJ: Nursing Process: Implementation
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment
NOT: The National Quality Forum updated its publication Safe Practices for
Better Healthcare in 2010, outlining 24 safe practices that should be used
in all health care settings to reduce the risk of harm from the
environment of care, processes, and systems. These are only a few of
the recommended practices; however, nurses should be familiar with
