Maternity Nursing: Pregnancy and
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answers 2025/2026 version
What is the goal of early prenatal care? - Answer To optimize the health of the woman and fetus and to
increase the odds that the fetus will be born healthy and to a healthy mother.
What are the responsibilities of the nurse during prenatal care? - Answer Teaching throughout
pregnancy, screening at each visit, monitor vital signs, preform assessments delegated by OBGYN,
answer questions, and report any abnormal commissions to the doctor.
What happens at the first prenatal visit? - Answer Longest visit: baseline data collected to compare
subsequent visits to. Confirm or rule out pregnancy, ascertain risk factors, determine due date, and
provide education on maintaining a healthy pregnancy
What is included in the patients reproductive history? - Answer Time of menarche, characteristics of
normal menstrual cycles, first day of last menstrual period, pregnancy history in outcomes using GTPAL,
and any complications occurred during previous pregnancies.
Communicates the outcome of previous pregnancies - Answer Parity, or "para". Includes any delivery
after twenty weeks, living or stillborn. Counts multiples as one single pregnancy.
All previous pregnancies a woman has had, regardless of outcome. - Answer Gravida
GTPAL - Answer Gravida
Term deliveries (at or beyond 38 weeks)
Preterm deliveries (20-37 weeks)
Abortions (number of pregnancies that ended before 20 weeks)
Living Children
Never been pregnant - Answer Nulligravida
, First pregnancy - Answer Primigravida
What is included in the medical-surgical history? - Answer Any major medical problem (such as heart
disease or diabetes), a list of all medications she is taking including over the counter medications and
herbal remedies, risk factors for infectious diseases, immunization status, and risk factors for sexually
transmitted infections
What is included in the family history? - Answer health status of the father of the baby and any close
relatives of the woman and her partner, specifically if there is a history for genetic diseases that would
require testing or counseling. If you only history for cystic fibrosis or hearing loss may require genetic
testing.the ethnic background of the woman and relatives of the fetus are important factors to consider
as well. sickle cell anemia and thalassemia are higher in African American, Indian and Middle Eastern
descent. Tay Sachs disease is higher in European Jews and French Canadians. Cystic fibrosis is higher in
Caucasians.
what is included in the social history? - Answer focuses on environmental factors that may influence the
pregnancy. these include things such as social support, housing in nutrition, education, type of
employment, presence of domestic violence or abuse, smoking, alcohol, and illicit and over the counter
drug use, and hobbies such as gardening or pet care (can expose mother to toxoplasmosis, which can
harm the fetus).
List the laboratory assessments done during pregnancy and their purpose - Answer CBC: indicates
overall health status of the mother, including anemia which can suggest poor nutritional status and a
potentially poor pregnancy outcome.
HEMOGLOBIN ELECTROPHORESIS Test: done if the woman is at risk for sickle cell anemia or thalassemia.
Blood type and antibody screen: helps identify women who are at risk of developing antigen
incompatibility with fetal blood cells.
Screens for infection: hep B, HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia
Rubella Titer: determines mother's immunity to rubella. The rubella immunization cannot be given
during pregnancy.
Pap Smear: checks for cervical CA
Urine Culture: screens for bacteria in the urine which can lead to UTI and premature labor
childbirth questions and 100% verified
answers 2025/2026 version
What is the goal of early prenatal care? - Answer To optimize the health of the woman and fetus and to
increase the odds that the fetus will be born healthy and to a healthy mother.
What are the responsibilities of the nurse during prenatal care? - Answer Teaching throughout
pregnancy, screening at each visit, monitor vital signs, preform assessments delegated by OBGYN,
answer questions, and report any abnormal commissions to the doctor.
What happens at the first prenatal visit? - Answer Longest visit: baseline data collected to compare
subsequent visits to. Confirm or rule out pregnancy, ascertain risk factors, determine due date, and
provide education on maintaining a healthy pregnancy
What is included in the patients reproductive history? - Answer Time of menarche, characteristics of
normal menstrual cycles, first day of last menstrual period, pregnancy history in outcomes using GTPAL,
and any complications occurred during previous pregnancies.
Communicates the outcome of previous pregnancies - Answer Parity, or "para". Includes any delivery
after twenty weeks, living or stillborn. Counts multiples as one single pregnancy.
All previous pregnancies a woman has had, regardless of outcome. - Answer Gravida
GTPAL - Answer Gravida
Term deliveries (at or beyond 38 weeks)
Preterm deliveries (20-37 weeks)
Abortions (number of pregnancies that ended before 20 weeks)
Living Children
Never been pregnant - Answer Nulligravida
, First pregnancy - Answer Primigravida
What is included in the medical-surgical history? - Answer Any major medical problem (such as heart
disease or diabetes), a list of all medications she is taking including over the counter medications and
herbal remedies, risk factors for infectious diseases, immunization status, and risk factors for sexually
transmitted infections
What is included in the family history? - Answer health status of the father of the baby and any close
relatives of the woman and her partner, specifically if there is a history for genetic diseases that would
require testing or counseling. If you only history for cystic fibrosis or hearing loss may require genetic
testing.the ethnic background of the woman and relatives of the fetus are important factors to consider
as well. sickle cell anemia and thalassemia are higher in African American, Indian and Middle Eastern
descent. Tay Sachs disease is higher in European Jews and French Canadians. Cystic fibrosis is higher in
Caucasians.
what is included in the social history? - Answer focuses on environmental factors that may influence the
pregnancy. these include things such as social support, housing in nutrition, education, type of
employment, presence of domestic violence or abuse, smoking, alcohol, and illicit and over the counter
drug use, and hobbies such as gardening or pet care (can expose mother to toxoplasmosis, which can
harm the fetus).
List the laboratory assessments done during pregnancy and their purpose - Answer CBC: indicates
overall health status of the mother, including anemia which can suggest poor nutritional status and a
potentially poor pregnancy outcome.
HEMOGLOBIN ELECTROPHORESIS Test: done if the woman is at risk for sickle cell anemia or thalassemia.
Blood type and antibody screen: helps identify women who are at risk of developing antigen
incompatibility with fetal blood cells.
Screens for infection: hep B, HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia
Rubella Titer: determines mother's immunity to rubella. The rubella immunization cannot be given
during pregnancy.
Pap Smear: checks for cervical CA
Urine Culture: screens for bacteria in the urine which can lead to UTI and premature labor
