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PERINATAL NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE JUST
RELEASED THIS YEAR
Question: A client asks, "How does my baby get air inside my uterus?" The correct response is:
"The baby absorbs oxygen from your blood system."
"The baby's lungs work in utero to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide."
"The placenta delivers oxygen-rich blood through the umbilical artery to the baby's abdomen."
"The placenta provides oxygen to the baby and excretes carbon dioxide into your bloodstream."
- ANSWER✔✔"The placenta provides oxygen to the baby and excretes carbon dioxide into your
bloodstream."
Question: Required for implantation. Also helps maintain pregnancy by inhibiting prostaglandin
production that stimulates uterine contractions
Estrogen
Progesterone
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Human Placental Lactogen
Human Chorionic Gonadotropin - ANSWER✔✔Progesterone
Question: Found in the blastocyst at implantation and is detected in maternal serum and urine
at the time of implantation.
Estrogen
Progesterone
Human Placental Lactogen
Human Chorionic Gonadotropin - ANSWER✔✔Human Chorionic Gonadotropin
Question: Critical to fetal growth because it alters maternal protein, carbohydrate, and fat
metabolism and acts as an insulin antagonist.
Estrogen
Progesterone
Human Placental Lactogen
Human Chorionic Gonadotropin - ANSWER✔✔Human Placental Lactogen
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Question: Helps prepare breasts for lactation, increases blood flow to the uterus, and increases
growth of the uterine muscle mass.
Estrogen
Progesterone
Human Placental Lactogen
Human Chorionic Gonadotropin - ANSWER✔✔Estrogen
Question: An appropriate recommended weight gain for a woman with a BMI greater than 30
would be:
11 to 20 lb
15 to 25 lb
25 to 35 lb
28 to 40 lb - ANSWER✔✔11 to 20 lb
Question: In women without pre-existing diabetes, the best time to screen for gestational
diabetes is:
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12 weeks gestation
20 weeks gestation
26 weeks gestation
36 weeks gestation - ANSWER✔✔26 weeks gestation
Question: Maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein specifically screens for:
cardiac defects
kidney defects
placental defects
neural tube defects - ANSWER✔✔neural tube defects
Question: Of the following, which response would you classify a pregnant woman as being
most at risk for substance use during pregnancy?
I quit smoking last year.
I drank alcohol quite a bit during college.
I tried marijuana and cocaine as a teenager.
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PERINATAL NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE JUST
RELEASED THIS YEAR
Question: A client asks, "How does my baby get air inside my uterus?" The correct response is:
"The baby absorbs oxygen from your blood system."
"The baby's lungs work in utero to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide."
"The placenta delivers oxygen-rich blood through the umbilical artery to the baby's abdomen."
"The placenta provides oxygen to the baby and excretes carbon dioxide into your bloodstream."
- ANSWER✔✔"The placenta provides oxygen to the baby and excretes carbon dioxide into your
bloodstream."
Question: Required for implantation. Also helps maintain pregnancy by inhibiting prostaglandin
production that stimulates uterine contractions
Estrogen
Progesterone
1
SUCCESS!
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Human Placental Lactogen
Human Chorionic Gonadotropin - ANSWER✔✔Progesterone
Question: Found in the blastocyst at implantation and is detected in maternal serum and urine
at the time of implantation.
Estrogen
Progesterone
Human Placental Lactogen
Human Chorionic Gonadotropin - ANSWER✔✔Human Chorionic Gonadotropin
Question: Critical to fetal growth because it alters maternal protein, carbohydrate, and fat
metabolism and acts as an insulin antagonist.
Estrogen
Progesterone
Human Placental Lactogen
Human Chorionic Gonadotropin - ANSWER✔✔Human Placental Lactogen
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Question: Helps prepare breasts for lactation, increases blood flow to the uterus, and increases
growth of the uterine muscle mass.
Estrogen
Progesterone
Human Placental Lactogen
Human Chorionic Gonadotropin - ANSWER✔✔Estrogen
Question: An appropriate recommended weight gain for a woman with a BMI greater than 30
would be:
11 to 20 lb
15 to 25 lb
25 to 35 lb
28 to 40 lb - ANSWER✔✔11 to 20 lb
Question: In women without pre-existing diabetes, the best time to screen for gestational
diabetes is:
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12 weeks gestation
20 weeks gestation
26 weeks gestation
36 weeks gestation - ANSWER✔✔26 weeks gestation
Question: Maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein specifically screens for:
cardiac defects
kidney defects
placental defects
neural tube defects - ANSWER✔✔neural tube defects
Question: Of the following, which response would you classify a pregnant woman as being
most at risk for substance use during pregnancy?
I quit smoking last year.
I drank alcohol quite a bit during college.
I tried marijuana and cocaine as a teenager.
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