Nursing Theory - Pediatric Care and
Maternity questions and 100% verified
answers 2025/2026
Family Centered Care - Answer Care that recognizes the family as central and constant in a child's life
and includes the family's contributions and involvement in the plan of care and delivery.
Child Life Specialist - Answer Health Care professional with extensive knowledge of psychology and early
childhood development, trained to prepare the child and caregiver's for hospitalization, surgery and
procedures.
Rooming-in - Answer The practice of staying with a hospitalized client (child) 24 hours a day to provide
care and comfort to that child.
Assent - Answer children older than 7 years of age have the right to give voluntary agreement to
participate in a research project or to accept treatment for treatment and research procedures.
Emancipated Minor - Answer A child who has the legal competency of an adult because of
circumstances involving marriage, divorce, parenting a child, living independently without caregivers, or
enlistment in the armed services.
Antepartum - Answer relating to the period of time before childbirth
Intra-partum - Answer Occuring during labor and delivery
Postpartum - Answer 6 week time period after the birth of an infant
Teratogens - Answer An agent or factor that can cause a malformation of an embryo
Gravida - Answer Pregnancy, regardless of duration, includes present pregnancy
, Para - Answer delivery after 20 weeks gestation, whether infant born alive or dead or number of infants
born.
Preterm - Answer Delivery (birth) after 20 weeks gestation but before 38 weeks (full term)
Term - Answer A pregnancy between 38 and 42 weeks gestation.
Nulligravida - Answer Never been pregnant
Primigravida - Answer Pregnant for first time
Multigravida - Answer Pregnant >2 times
Nullipara - Answer Never having delivered an infant after 20 weeks gestation.
Primipara - Answer Has delivered once after 20 weeks gestation
Multipara - Answer Has delivered twice or more after 20 weeks gestation
Posterm - Answer Delivery after 42 weeks gestation
Neonate - Answer Newborn from birth to 28 days of life
Bonding - Answer A rapid process of attachment, parent to child only, taking place during the sensitive
period (the first 30 to 60 minutes after birth)
Attachment - Answer A long term process that begins during pregnancy and intensifies during the post
partum period, establishes an enduring bond between parent and child and develops through reciprocal
(parent to child to parent) behaviours
Maternity questions and 100% verified
answers 2025/2026
Family Centered Care - Answer Care that recognizes the family as central and constant in a child's life
and includes the family's contributions and involvement in the plan of care and delivery.
Child Life Specialist - Answer Health Care professional with extensive knowledge of psychology and early
childhood development, trained to prepare the child and caregiver's for hospitalization, surgery and
procedures.
Rooming-in - Answer The practice of staying with a hospitalized client (child) 24 hours a day to provide
care and comfort to that child.
Assent - Answer children older than 7 years of age have the right to give voluntary agreement to
participate in a research project or to accept treatment for treatment and research procedures.
Emancipated Minor - Answer A child who has the legal competency of an adult because of
circumstances involving marriage, divorce, parenting a child, living independently without caregivers, or
enlistment in the armed services.
Antepartum - Answer relating to the period of time before childbirth
Intra-partum - Answer Occuring during labor and delivery
Postpartum - Answer 6 week time period after the birth of an infant
Teratogens - Answer An agent or factor that can cause a malformation of an embryo
Gravida - Answer Pregnancy, regardless of duration, includes present pregnancy
, Para - Answer delivery after 20 weeks gestation, whether infant born alive or dead or number of infants
born.
Preterm - Answer Delivery (birth) after 20 weeks gestation but before 38 weeks (full term)
Term - Answer A pregnancy between 38 and 42 weeks gestation.
Nulligravida - Answer Never been pregnant
Primigravida - Answer Pregnant for first time
Multigravida - Answer Pregnant >2 times
Nullipara - Answer Never having delivered an infant after 20 weeks gestation.
Primipara - Answer Has delivered once after 20 weeks gestation
Multipara - Answer Has delivered twice or more after 20 weeks gestation
Posterm - Answer Delivery after 42 weeks gestation
Neonate - Answer Newborn from birth to 28 days of life
Bonding - Answer A rapid process of attachment, parent to child only, taking place during the sensitive
period (the first 30 to 60 minutes after birth)
Attachment - Answer A long term process that begins during pregnancy and intensifies during the post
partum period, establishes an enduring bond between parent and child and develops through reciprocal
(parent to child to parent) behaviours
