Primary Care of Women Test 1 Practice Questions and Verified Answers
Leading causes of death for women are related to what MODIFIABLE
kind of risk factors?
Overall goals of Healthy People 2020? -attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease/disability
-achieve high equity, eliminate disparities and improve health
-create social and physical environments that promote good health for all
-promote quality of life and healthy behaviors
What is the state of complete physical, mental and social health
well-being and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity?
What health benefits must be covered through insurance -well woman exams
for women? -contraceptives
-breastfeeding support
-maternity and newborn care
Who theorized that the study of human beings would yield Martha Rogers
meaningful theories and concepts only when their
wholeness is perceived?
What prevention focuses on preventing disease in PRIMARY
populations and what are some examples?
EX:
health education and counseling
lifestyle modification
immunizations
What prevention focuses on early detection of disease and SECONDARY
prompt tx aimed at reducing severity of disease and
limiting its short and long term consequences and what are EX:
some examples? routine labwork
mammos
What prevention is the delivery of health searches the limit TERTIARY
disability and promote recovery from clinical disease
states?
Five As framework to assist alcohol or tobacco use? 1. ask
2. advise
3. assess
4. assist
5. arrange
Vaccines contraindicated in pregnancy? -MMR
-herpes zoster live
-live attenuated influenza
-varicella
What are important because they are used as landmarks ischial spines
when performing pudendal blocks and used to assess
progression fo fetal descent during child birth?
Best known classification of female pelvis? Caldwell-Moloy
Four basic pelvic types? gynecoid
android
anthropoid
platypelloid
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Pelvis shape that is generally characteristic of women in its gynecoid
bone structure?
Pelvis shape with heart-shaped brim and narrow in front, android pelvis
and is more common in tall women with narrow hips?
Android pelvis is seen in what type of women? tall with narrow hips (African women)
Pelvis shape that is narrow and deep and is similar to an anthropoid
oval?
Pelvis shape that is called a flat pelvis and is the least platypelloid
common?
Women's vulva can be what size and color? size depending on adipose tissue, length and pigment of labia minor/majora
color can be light/dark pink, shades of grey, peach, brown or black
Female homologue of penis in male? clitoris
What stimulates mammary gland development? prolactin and growth hormone from anterior lobe of pituitary
What stimulates milk production? prolactin -- released by anterior pituitary
What simulates milk ejection from lactating breasts? oxytocin -- released by posterior pituitary in response to suckling
What is the most relevant factor in menstrual cycle ratio of total body weight to lean body weight
physiology?
Who is more likely to have an earlier onset of menarche? moderately obese women
Why are menstrual cycles that occur during the first 1 to because of the immaturity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis
1.5 years after menarche frequently irregular?
What manages production of hormones that serve as hypothalamus
chemical messengers for regulation of gynecologic
system?
What hormone targets ovaries and stimulates FSH
growth/development of primary follicles and results in
production of estrogen and progesterone?
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, Primary Care of Women Test 1 Practice Questions and Verified Answers
What hormone targets developing follicle in ovary and is LH
responsible for ovulation, corpus lute formation and
hormone production in ovaries?
What hormone is responsible for preparing mammary prolactin
gland for lactation and synthesis of milk?
GnRH release from hypothalamus is modulated by estrogen and progesterone
feedback effects of what hormones?
The release of LH and FSH from the pituitary depends on recreation of GnRH from hypothalamus
what??
Gravida?? total number of pregnancies, including current pregnancy
Term?? number of pregnancy that reached 37 weeks or greater
Preterm?? number of pregnancies that reached 20 to 36 weeks, regardless of outcome
Abortions?? # of spontaneous and induced abortions prior to 20 wks gestation
Living children?? # of living children
Abnormal nipple findings? -newly inverted nipple
-nipple retraction
-one pointing the other way
-flattening of nipple
What is breast tissue that extends from upper outer tail of Spence
quadrant toward axilla?
Most breast malignancies develop where? upper outer quadrant or TAIL OF SPENCE
Breast tissue in adults feels like what? dense, firm and elastic
If patient has a cystocele, there will be a bulge where anterior vaginal wall
when patient coughs/bears down?
If patient has a rectocele, there will be a bulge where when posterior vaginal wall
patient coughs/bears down?
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Leading causes of death for women are related to what MODIFIABLE
kind of risk factors?
Overall goals of Healthy People 2020? -attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease/disability
-achieve high equity, eliminate disparities and improve health
-create social and physical environments that promote good health for all
-promote quality of life and healthy behaviors
What is the state of complete physical, mental and social health
well-being and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity?
What health benefits must be covered through insurance -well woman exams
for women? -contraceptives
-breastfeeding support
-maternity and newborn care
Who theorized that the study of human beings would yield Martha Rogers
meaningful theories and concepts only when their
wholeness is perceived?
What prevention focuses on preventing disease in PRIMARY
populations and what are some examples?
EX:
health education and counseling
lifestyle modification
immunizations
What prevention focuses on early detection of disease and SECONDARY
prompt tx aimed at reducing severity of disease and
limiting its short and long term consequences and what are EX:
some examples? routine labwork
mammos
What prevention is the delivery of health searches the limit TERTIARY
disability and promote recovery from clinical disease
states?
Five As framework to assist alcohol or tobacco use? 1. ask
2. advise
3. assess
4. assist
5. arrange
Vaccines contraindicated in pregnancy? -MMR
-herpes zoster live
-live attenuated influenza
-varicella
What are important because they are used as landmarks ischial spines
when performing pudendal blocks and used to assess
progression fo fetal descent during child birth?
Best known classification of female pelvis? Caldwell-Moloy
Four basic pelvic types? gynecoid
android
anthropoid
platypelloid
Grade A+ | Updated
, Primary Care of Women Test 1 Practice Questions and Verified Answers
Pelvis shape that is generally characteristic of women in its gynecoid
bone structure?
Pelvis shape with heart-shaped brim and narrow in front, android pelvis
and is more common in tall women with narrow hips?
Android pelvis is seen in what type of women? tall with narrow hips (African women)
Pelvis shape that is narrow and deep and is similar to an anthropoid
oval?
Pelvis shape that is called a flat pelvis and is the least platypelloid
common?
Women's vulva can be what size and color? size depending on adipose tissue, length and pigment of labia minor/majora
color can be light/dark pink, shades of grey, peach, brown or black
Female homologue of penis in male? clitoris
What stimulates mammary gland development? prolactin and growth hormone from anterior lobe of pituitary
What stimulates milk production? prolactin -- released by anterior pituitary
What simulates milk ejection from lactating breasts? oxytocin -- released by posterior pituitary in response to suckling
What is the most relevant factor in menstrual cycle ratio of total body weight to lean body weight
physiology?
Who is more likely to have an earlier onset of menarche? moderately obese women
Why are menstrual cycles that occur during the first 1 to because of the immaturity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis
1.5 years after menarche frequently irregular?
What manages production of hormones that serve as hypothalamus
chemical messengers for regulation of gynecologic
system?
What hormone targets ovaries and stimulates FSH
growth/development of primary follicles and results in
production of estrogen and progesterone?
Grade A+ | Updated
, Primary Care of Women Test 1 Practice Questions and Verified Answers
What hormone targets developing follicle in ovary and is LH
responsible for ovulation, corpus lute formation and
hormone production in ovaries?
What hormone is responsible for preparing mammary prolactin
gland for lactation and synthesis of milk?
GnRH release from hypothalamus is modulated by estrogen and progesterone
feedback effects of what hormones?
The release of LH and FSH from the pituitary depends on recreation of GnRH from hypothalamus
what??
Gravida?? total number of pregnancies, including current pregnancy
Term?? number of pregnancy that reached 37 weeks or greater
Preterm?? number of pregnancies that reached 20 to 36 weeks, regardless of outcome
Abortions?? # of spontaneous and induced abortions prior to 20 wks gestation
Living children?? # of living children
Abnormal nipple findings? -newly inverted nipple
-nipple retraction
-one pointing the other way
-flattening of nipple
What is breast tissue that extends from upper outer tail of Spence
quadrant toward axilla?
Most breast malignancies develop where? upper outer quadrant or TAIL OF SPENCE
Breast tissue in adults feels like what? dense, firm and elastic
If patient has a cystocele, there will be a bulge where anterior vaginal wall
when patient coughs/bears down?
If patient has a rectocele, there will be a bulge where when posterior vaginal wall
patient coughs/bears down?
Grade A+ | Updated
