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Test Bank - Maternity - 2021 Updated - Maternity & Womens Health Care 10ED by Lowdermilk 1. To assess a mother’s risk of having a low-birth-weight (LBW) infant, what is the most important fac... tor for the nurse to consider? a. African-American race b. Cigarette smoking c. Poor nutritional status d. Limited maternal education 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 Western treatment c. Focuses on the disease or condition rather than the client’s background d. Has been mandated by Congress [Show More]
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