HESI Obstetrics/Maternity Practice Exam 2024/2025 With Verified Answers
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Maternity
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Maternity
HESI Obstetrics/Maternity Practice Exam 2024/2025 With Verified AnswersHESI Obstetrics/Maternity Practice Exam 2024/2025 With Verified AnswersHESI Obstetrics/Maternity Practice Exam 2024/2025 With Verified AnswersHESI Obstetrics/Maternity Practice Exam 2024/2025 With Verified AnswersHESI Obstetrics...
1. Client teaching is an important part of the maternity nurse's role. Which
factor has the greatest influence on successful teaching of the gravid
client?
A. The client's readiness to learn
2. A 38-week primagravida who works as a secretary and sits at a computer 8
hours a day tells the nurse that her feet have begun to swell. Which
instruction would be most effective in preventing pooling of blood in the
lower extremities?
C. Move about every hour
3. During a prenatal visit, the nurse discusses with a client the effects of
smoking on the fetus. When compared with nonsmokers, mothers who
smoke during pregnancy tend to produce infants who have
B. lower birth weights
4. A 26-year-old, gravida 2, para 1 client is admitted to the hospital at 28-
weeks gestation in preterm labor. She is given 3 doses of terbutaline
sulfate (Brethine) 0.25 mg subcutaneously to stop her labor contractions.
, The nurse plans to monitor for which primary side effect of terbutaline
sulfate?
C. Tachycardia and a feeling of nervousness
5. A mother who is breastfeeding her baby receives instructions from the
nurse. Which instruction is most effective to prevent nipple soreness?
C. correctly place the infant on the breast
6. A full term infant is transferred to the nursery from L & D. Which
information is most important for the nurse to receive when planning
immediate care for the newborn?
B. Infant's condition at birth and treatment received.
7. In developing a teaching plan for expectant parents, the nurse plans to
include information about when the parents can expect the infant's
fontanels to close. The nurse bases the explanation on knowledge that for
the normal newborn, the
D. anterior fontanel closes at 12-18 mos and the posterior fontanel by the end of the
second month.
8. When assessing a client who is 12-weeks gestation, the nurse recommends
the she and her husband consider attending childbirth preparation classes.
What is the best time for the couple to attend these classes?
D. At 30 weeks gestation.
9. The nurse should encourage the laboring client to begin pushing when
C. the cervix is completely dilated
, 10. The nurse is counseling a couple who has sought information about
conceiving. For teaching purposes, the nurse should know that ovulation
usually occurs
A. two weeks before menstruation.
11. The nurse instructs a laboring client to use accelerated-blow breathing.
The client begins to complain of tingling fingers and dizziness. What action
should the nurse take?
C. have the client breath into her cupped hands
12. When preparing a newborn care for expectant parents, what content should
the nurse teach concerning the newborn infant born at term gestation?
C. Vernix is a white, cheesy substance, predominately located in the skin folds.
13. Twenty-four hours after admission to the newborn nursery, a full-term male
infant develops localized edema on the right side of his head. The nurse
knows that, in the newborn, an accumulation of blood between the
periosteum and skull which does not cross the suture line is a newborn
variation known as
A. a cephalhematoma, caused by forceps trauma and may last up to 8 weeks.
14. An expectant father tells the nurse he fears that his wife "is losing her
mind". He states she is constantly rubbing her abdomen and talking to the
baby and that she actually reprimands the baby when it moves too much.
What recommendation should the nurse make to the expectant father?
D. Let him know that these behaviors are part of normal maternal/fetal bonding which
occurs once the mother feels fetal movement.
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