Study Guide for Maternal-Child Nursing-E-Book
(5th Edition) CHAPTER 1
What are the four elements of negligence/malpractice? a.
b.
c.
d.
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Pediatric Nursing
Answer as either true (T) or false (F).
Answer as either true (T) or false (F).
Infant mortality rates have continued to drop since 1950 as a result of better
neonatal care.
Identify the four requirements for informed consent. a.
b.
c.
d.
1. Informed consent is defined as the process for receiving approval prior to conducting
a health care interpolation on a person. The healthcare specialist may request the patient
to obtain the treatment before providing it. Getting the informed consent is not
necessarily required all the time.
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2. When one person fails to provide informed consent, the other person is commonly
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certified to give approval on his/her behalf. The informed consent is considered as the
certification that the approval was pursued and given.
To obtain the legally effective informed consent, the four requirements are needed to meet
which are listed below:
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Choose the correct answer.
What was identified in the chapter as a societal issue affecting maternity and pediatric nursing?
a. Fewer children are living in poverty.
b. Violence in schools has decreased.
c. Families are the fastest growing group of homeless people.
d. The number of uninsured American children has decreased
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Pediatric Nursing
Answer as either true (T) or false (F).
During the nineteenth century, the most serious child health problems were
directly related to poverty and overcrowding.
Pediatric Nursing
Answer as either true (T) or false (F).
The first public health program for mothers and children was initiated by
Lillian Wald.
How has cost containment affected maternity and pediatric care?
Answer as either true (T) or false (F).
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African-American women have lower maternal mortality rates than do
Caucasian women.
Answer as either true (T) or false (F).
There is no link between children living in poverty and poorer health outcomes.
1. Impact of poverty on health status of children
Match the term with the correct definition.
a. Infant deaths that occur in the first 28 days of life
1.
advocacy
b. Speaking or arguing in support of a policy or person’s
2.
morbidity
3.
rights
c. Negligence by a professional person
malpractice
4.
d. Time of labor and childbirth
neonatal
mortality
5.
e. Ratio of sick-to-well persons in a defined population
intrapartum
6.
f. Secretion of milk from the breasts
ethics
7.
g. Rules or principles that govern conduct
lactation
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8.
negligence
h. Failure to act in the way a reasonable, prudent person of a similar background
would act in a similar circumstance
Choose the correct answer.
Lillian Wald is recognized for which contribution to nursing?
a. She discouraged the practice of tightly swaddling infants in three layers of clothing.
b. She initiated public health nursing at the Henry Street Settlement.
c. She promoted family-centered care for hospitalized children.
d. She developed infection control procedures in hospitals and foundling homes.
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Pediatric Nursing
Answer as either true (T) or false (F).
Hospital policies have changed in response to an awareness of children’s
emotional and psychological needs.
Answer as either true (T) or false (F).
Premature births have increased in the past two decades.
Maternity Nursing
Identify the three basic principles of family-centered maternity care. a.
b.
c.
Answer as either true (T) or false (F).
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
provides supplemental food supplies to bottle-fed children but not to breastfeeding mothers.
Maternity Nursing
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Describe each of these settings for childbirth.
a. Traditional hospital setting
b. Labor, delivery, and recovery (LDR) rooms
c. Labor, delivery, recovery, and postpartum (LDRP) rooms
d. Birth centers
e. Home births
Choose the correct answer.
A practice model that uses a systematic approach to identify specific patients and manage
patient care is:
a. case management.
b. the nursing process.
c. a clinical pathway.
d. a health maintenance organization.
Four of the most important ethical principles are
, and
,
,
.
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Choose the correct answer.
Which statement about family-centered maternity care is correct?
a. Family-centered care decreases the responsibility of maternity nurses.
b. Although settings have changed, childbirth is still viewed as a medical event.
c. Care is adapted to meet the physical and psychological needs of the family.
d. Maternal-infant bonding is the primary focus of family-centered care
1. Family-centered maternity care
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Answer as either true (T) or false (F).
Accidents are the leading cause of death in children aged 1 to 19 years.
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