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Lowdermilk: Maternity & Women’s Health Care, 10th EditionChapter 01: 21st Century Maternity and Women’s Health Nursing
1. To assess a mother’s risk of having a low-birth-weight (LBW) infant, what is the
most important factor for the nurse to consider?
a. African-American race
b. Cigarette smoking
c. Poor nutritional status
d. Limited maternal education
ANS: A
2. What is the primary role of practicing nurses in the research process?
a. Designing research studies
b. Collecting data for other researchers
c. Identifying researchable problems
d. Seeking funding to support research studies
ANS: C
,3. The nurse should be aware that a statistic widely used to compare the health status
of different populations is the:
a. Incidence of specific infections, such as acquired immunodeficiency
syndrome (AIDS) and tuberculosis
b. Infant mortality rate
c. Maternal morbidity rate
d. Incidence of low-birth-weight (LBW) infants
ANS: B
4. Alternative and complementary therapies:
a. Replace conventional Western modalities of treatment
b. Are used by only a small number of American adults
c. Allow for more client autonomy
d. Focus primarily on the disease an individual is experiencing
ANS: C
5. The nurses working at a newly established birthing center have begun to compare
their performance in providing maternal-newborn care against clinical standards. This
comparison process, designed to improve the quality of client care, is called:
,a. Best practices network
b. Clinical benchmarking
c. Outcomes-oriented care
d. Evidence-based practice
ANS: C
6. Contemporary maternity nursing is exemplified by:
a. The use of midwives for all vaginal deliveries
b. Family-centered care
c. Free-standing birth clinics
d. Physician-driven care
ANS: B
7. A 38-year-old Hispanic woman delivered a 9-lb, 6-oz baby girl vaginally after being
in labor for 43 hours. The baby died 3 days later from sepsis. On what grounds could
the woman have a legitimate legal case for negligence?
a. She is Hispanic.
, b. She delivered a girl.
c. If the standards of care were not met.
d. She refused fetal monitoring.
ANS: C
8. The National Quality Forum has issued a list of “never events” pertaining
specifically to maternal and child health. These include all except:
a. Infant discharged to the wrong person
b. Kernicterus associated with failure to identify and treat
hyperbilirubinemia
c. Artificial insemination with wrong donor sperm or egg
d. Foreign object retained after surgery
ANS: D
9. An important development that concerns maternity nursing is integrative health
care, which:
a. Seeks to provide the same health care for all racial and ethnic groups
b. Blends complementary and alternative therapies with conventional
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