Maternity and Women's Health Nursing: Women's Health Exam Questions With Correct Answers.
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Maternity and Women's Health Nursing:
Women's Health Exam Questions With
Correct Answers.
A nurse instructs a client who is taking oral contraceptives to increase her intake of dietary
supplements. Which supplement should be increased?
Calcium
Vitamin C
Vitamin E
Potassium - answerVitamin C...
Maternity and Women's Health Nursing:
Women's Health Exam Questions With
Correct Answers.
A nurse instructs a client who is taking oral contraceptives to increase her intake of dietary
supplements. Which supplement should be increased?
Calcium
Vitamin C
Vitamin E
Potassium - answer✔Vitamin C
A nurse is providing dietary counseling to a client at 14 weeks' gestation. The client is a recent
immigrant from Asia, and the nurse explores the foods that the client usually eats. Which foods
should the nurse counsel the client to avoid during pregnancy? (Select all that apply.)
1.Yogurt
2.Oily fish
3.Apricots
4.Raw shellfish
5.Herbal supplements
6.Soft-scrambled eggs - answer✔4.Raw shellfish
5.Herbal supplements
6.Soft-scrambled eggs
A nurse is caring for an adolescent in labor an hour after she was admitted to the birthing unit.
The adolescent is anxious and tense. She cries during contractions and asks the nurse for epidural
anesthesia. The nurse obtains the adolescent's current vital signs and reviews her history and
1.Performing a baseline vaginal examination
2.Telling the adolescent what to expect with each procedure
3.Identifying risk factors that contraindicate epidural anesthesia
4.Having the parents sign a consent form for the epidural anesthesia
5.Explaining the need to stay in one position while the epidural catheter is in place -
answer✔1.Performing a baseline vaginal examination
2.Telling the adolescent what to expect with each procedure
3.Identifying risk factors that contraindicate epidural anesthesia
Methods of relieving back pain are explained during a childbirth class. What activities identified
by the client permit the nurse to conclude that the teaching has been understood? (Select all that
apply.)
5.Kegel exercises - answer✔2.Pelvic rocking
3.Forward tilting
4 .Sacral pressure
Contraceptives that contain estrogen-like and/or progesterone-like compounds are prepared in a
variety of forms. Which contraceptives should the nurse tell clients have a hormonal component?
(Select all that apply.)
1.Oral drugs
2.Diaphragm
3.Cervical cap
4.Female condoms
6.Transdermal agents - answer✔1.Oral drugs
6.Transdermal agents
A client undergoes anterior and posterior surgical repair of a cystocele and rectocele and returns
from the postanesthesia care unit with an indwelling catheter in place. What should the nurse tell
the client about the primary reasons for the catheter? (Select all that apply.)
1.Discomfort is minimized.
2.Bladder tone is maintained.
3.Retention of urine is prevented.
4.Pressure on the suture line is relieved.
5.Hourly urine output can be easily measured - answer✔1.Discomfort is minimized
3.Retention of urine is prevented.
4.Pressure on the suture line is relieved.
A client comes to the fertility clinic for hysterosalpingography using radiopaque contrast
material to determine whether her fallopian tubes are patent. When preparing for the test, the
nurse explains to the client that she:
1.Will receive a local anesthetic and the pain will lessen
2.Will have to rest in bed for 8 hours after the test is completed
3.May have some persistent shoulder pain for 14 hours after the test
4.May become nauseated during the test, but the nausea will subside - answer✔3.May have
some persistent shoulder pain for 14 hours after the test
A nurse at a women's health clinic confirms that client teaching regarding the use of an oral
contraceptive is understood when the client states, "I:
1.Can stop the pill and try to get pregnant right away"
2.May miss two periods and not worry about being pregnant"
3.Will put a baby's picture on my bathroom mirror so I'll see it every morning"
4.Propranolol (Inderal) - answer✔4.Propranolol (Inderal)
A nurse is caring for a client who is being given intravenous magnesium sulfate to treat
preeclampsia. Which adverse side effect alerts the nurse to notify the health care provider?
1.Respiratory rate of 18 breaths/min
2.2+ patellar reflex response
3.Magnesium blood level of 5 mEq/L
4.Urine output of less than 100 mL in 4 hours - answer✔4.Urine output of less than 100 mL in
4 hours
A couple expresses a desire to use the rhythm method of birth control. The woman tells the nurse
that she menstruates every 32 days. What should the nurse teach the couple about when the
client's ovulation probably occurs?
1.On the 14th day of the cycle
2.10 days after the first day of bleeding
3.14 days before the start of the next menses
4.2 to 3 days after the last day of menstrual bleeding - answer✔3.14 days before the start of the
next menses
The nurse is caring for a client who is in the taking-in phase of the postpartum period. The area
of health teaching that the client will be most responsive to is:
1.Perineal care
2.Infant feeding
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