Number of maternal deaths from births and complications of pregnancy, childbirth and
puerperium per 100,000 live births
Number of live births in 1 year per 1000 population
Number of deaths of infants younger than 1 year of age per 1000 births - answer✔Maternal
mortality rate
Birth rate
Infant mortality rate
The perinatal nurse explains to the student nurse that a goal of the Healthy People 2020 is to:
a. Increase proportion of infants who are bottle-fed
b. Increase number of unintended pregnancies
c. Increase the number of babies who are born preterm
d. Increase proportion of infants who are breastfed - answer✔d. Increase proportion of infants
who are breastfed
The perinatal nurse explains to the student nurse that ___ is the leading cause of neonatal death
in the United States.
d. Congenital malformations - answer✔d. Congenital malformations
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is the integration of the best:
a. Randomized clinical trials, clinical expertise, and patients' requests
b. Research evidence, clinical expertise, and patients' values
c. Quantitative research, clinical expertise, and patients' preferences
d. Research findings, clinical experience, and patients' preferences - answer✔b. Research
evidence, clinical expertise, and patients' values
Which of the following are milestones in the care of mothers and babies? (Select all that apply).
a. abortion is legalized
b. folic acid is recommended to prevent neural tube defects
c. HIV vaccine is available
d. FDA approves birth control pill for men - answer✔a. abortion is legalized
b. folic acid is recommended to prevent neural tube defects
An ethical dilemma unique to perinatal nursing is the:
Select one:
a. Embryo/fetal rights
b. Intensive use of technology to maintain life
c. Limited access to care
d. Ethnicity disparities in health care - answer✔a. Embryo/fetal rights
Which health care service represents a primary level of prevention?
d. Immunizations - answer✔d. Immunizations
Which resource best describes a health care service representing the tertiary level of prevention?
Select one:
a. Self breast exam pamphlet and teaching
b. Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) support group
c. Childbirth education classes for single parents
d. Stress prevention seminars - answer✔b. Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) support group
Which term is an accurate description of the process by which people retain some of their own
culture while adoption the practices of the dominant society?
Select one:
a. Assimilation
b. Cultural relativism
c. Ethnocentrism
d. Acculturation - answer✔d. Acculturation
Strategies for culturally responsive care include (select all that apply):
a. Practicing ethnocentrism
b. Applying stereotyping
c. Examining one's own biases
d. Learning another language - answer✔c. Examining one's own biases
d. Learning another language
Which of the following are true regarding interpreter services? Select all that apply.
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