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Maternal-Newborn Nursing: The Critical Components of Nursing Care (4th Edition) – Roberta Durham, Linda Chapman & Connie Miller | Complete Test Bank with Practice Questions and Answer Rationales

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This test bank contains comprehensive practice questions, answers, and rationales covering all major concepts from Maternal-Newborn Nursing: The Critical Components of Nursing Care, 4th Edition. Topics include antepartum care, labor and delivery, postpartum nursing, neonatal assessment, newborn nutrition, high-risk pregnancies, complications, and evidence-based maternal-newborn nursing practice. The material is organized by chapter and is designed to help nursing students prepare for exams, quizzes, NCLEX-style questions, and course assessments. It serves as an effective study resource for reinforcing key maternal and newborn nursing concepts.

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Chapter 1: Trends and Issues
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1. The nurse is caring for a patient who is in labor with her first child. The patient’s mother is
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present for support and notes that things have changed in the delivery room since she last
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gave birth in the early 1980s. Which current trend or intervention may the patient’s mother
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find most different?
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1. Fetal monitoring throughout labor fh fh fh




2. Postpartum stayof 10 days fh fh fh fh




3. Expectant partner and familyin operating room for cesarean birth fh fh fh fh fh fh fh fh fh




4. Hospital support for breastfeeding fh fh fh




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Chapter Learning Objective: 1. Discuss current trends in the management of labor and birth
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Heading: Table 1-1: Past and Present Trends fh fh fh fh fh fh




Integrated Processes: Nursing Process
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Client Need: Health Promotion and Maintenance
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Cognitive Level: Application [Applying]
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Concept: Evidence-Based Practice
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1 This is incorrect. Fetal monitoring during labor began in the late 1970s. As such,
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this likelywould have occurred during the mother’s labor and delivery during
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the 1980s.
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2 This is incorrect. In the past, the average hospital postpartum stay was 10 days.
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Presently, the average postpartum stay is 48 hours or less. fh fh fh fh fh fh fh fh fh




3 This is incorrect. In the past, expectant partners and families were excluded from
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the labor and birth experience. Present trends involve the expectant partner and
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familyin the labor and birth experience, including presence in the operating
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room for cesarean births. fh fh fh




4 This is correct. Hospital support for breastfeeding, including a lactation
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consultant and employment of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, were both
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enacted during the early 1990s. fh fh fh fh




PTS: 1 CON: Evidence-Based Practice f h fh




2. A patient with a historyof hypertension is giving birth. During delivery, the staff was not
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able to stabilize the patient’s blood pressure. As a result, the patient died shortly after
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delivery. This is an example of what type of death?
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1. Earlymaternal death fh fh




2. Late maternal death fh fh




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3. Direct obstetric death
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4. Indirectobstetricdeath
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Chapter Learning Objective: 2. Discuss current trends in maternal and infant health
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outcomes.
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Heading: Trends > Maternal Death and Mortality Rates
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Integrated Processes: Nursing Process
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Client Need: Physiological Integrity: Reduction of Risk Potential
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Cognitive Level: Application [Applying]
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Concept: Ante/Intra/Post-partum fh




Difficulty: Hard
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1 This is incorrect. Early maternal death is not an example of maternal death.
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Examples of maternal death include late maternal death, indirect obstetric death,fh fh fh fh fh fh fh fh fh fh




direct obstetric death, and pregnancy-related death.
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2 This is incorrect. Late maternal death occurs 42 days after termination of
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pregnancy from a direct or indirect obstetric cause. fh fh fh fh fh fh fh




3 This is incorrect. Direct obstetric death results from complications during
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4 This is correct. Indirect obstetric death is caused by a preexisting disease, or a
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PTS: 1 CON: Ante/Intra/Post-partum f h




3. The nurse is providing education to a patient who has given birth to her first child and is being
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discharged home. The patient expressed concern regarding infant mortality and sudden infant
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death syndrome (SIDS). The patient had an uncomplicated pregnancy, labor, and vaginal
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delivery. She has a body mass index of 25 and has no other health conditions. The infant is
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healthy and was delivered full-term. What will be most helpful thing to explainto the patient?
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1. Uses of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy (ECMO)
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2. Uses of exogenous pulmonary surfactant
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3. The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative
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Chapter Learning Objective: 3. Identify leading causes of infant death.
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Integrated Processes: Nursing process
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Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control
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