PRACTICE SET SOLUTION QUESTIONS WITH
FULL ANSWERS
◉ health promotion: obstetric care. Answer: primary and secondary
◉ health promotion: postpartum. Answer: tertiary
◉ failure to rescue components. Answer: careful surveillance, quick
action, team response
◉ sentinel event. Answer: unexpected, reportable
◉ gravida. Answer: pregnant
◉ nulligravida. Answer: never been pregnant
◉ parity. Answer: fetus reaches viability
20 weeks
◉ GTPAL. Answer: gravida
,term
preterm
abortion
living
◉ hegar's sign. Answer: uterus softens
6 weeks in
◉ lightening. Answer: fetus settles into pelvis
36 weeks
◉ braxton hicks. Answer: no dilation
stop with activity
around 16-28 weeks
◉ funic souffle. Answer: blood through umbilical cord
110-160
◉ ballottement. Answer: fetus bounces away from examiners fingers
◉ quickening. Answer: butterflies in stomach
14-18 weeks
, ◉ goodell sign. Answer: softening cervix
◉ friability. Answer: fragile cervix tissue
easily damaged
◉ ovarian hormone changes. Answer: FSH and LH decrease
estrogen and progesterone increase
◉ chadwick sign. Answer: blue cervix
6-8 weeks
◉ blood pressure increases or decreases. Answer: decreases slightly
returns after 32 weeks
◉ heart rate increases or decreases. Answer: increases by 5 weeks
not permanent
◉ CBC notable factors. Answer: WBC increase
increased clotting factors
◉ late pregnancy dyspnea. Answer: 3rd trimester