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This test bank contains practice questions with answers covering the essential concepts from Maternal Child Nursing, 6th Edition. It includes comprehensive content on prenatal care, pregnancy, labor and delivery, postpartum care, newborn assessment, pediatric nursing, growth and development, family-centered care, common maternal and childhood health conditions, and health promotion. The material is designed to reinforce key nursing concepts, support course revision, and help students prepare for quizzes, examinations, and clinical practice.

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TEST BANK
Maternal-Child Nursing
EMILY SLONE MCKINNEY, SUSAN ROWEN JAMES, SHARON SMITH
MURRAY, KRISTINE NELSON, JEAN ASHWILL
6th Edition

, MATERNAL-CHILD NURSING, 6TH EDITION TEST BANK By
Emily Slone McKinney & Susan R. James & Sharon Smith Murray
& Kristine Nelson & Jean Ashwill


Chapter 1: Foundations of Maternity, Women’s Health, and Child Health Nursing
Test Bank
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MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. Which factor significantly contributed to the shift from home births to hospital births in
the early 20th century?
a. Puerperal sepsis was identified as a risk factor in labor and delivery.
b. Forceps were developed to facilitate difficult births.
c. The importance of early parental-infant contact was identified.
d. Technologic developments became available to physicians.
ANS: D


Feedback
A Puerperal sepsis has been a known problem for generations. In the late 19th
century, Semmelweis discovered how it could be prevented with improved
hygienic practices.
B The development of forceps to help physicians facilitate difficult births was a
strong factor in the decrease of home births and increase of hospital births.
Other
important discoveries included chloroform, drugs to initiate labor, and the
advancement of operative procedures such a cesarean birth.
C Unlike home-births, early hospital births hindered bonding between parents and
their infants.
D Technological developments were available to physicians, not lay midwives.

PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p. 2
OBJ: Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment

2. Family-centered maternity care developed in response to:
a. Demands by physicians for family involvement in childbirth
b. The Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921
c. Parental requests that infants be allowed to remain with them rather than
in a nursery
d. Changes in pharmacologic management of labor
ANS: C


Feedback
A Family-centered care was a request by parents, not physicians.
B The Sheppard-Towner Act provided funds for state-managed programs for
mothers and children.
C As research began to identify the benefits of early extended parent-infant
contact, parents began to insist that the infant remain with them. This
gradually developed into the practice of rooming-in and finally to family-
centered
maternity care.
D The changes in pharmacologic management of labor were not a factor in
family-

, centered maternity care.

PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p. 3
OBJ: Nursing Process: Assessment MSC: Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity

3. Which setting for childbirth allows the least amount of parent-infant contact?
a. Labor/delivery/recovery/postpartum room
b. Birth center
c. Traditional hospital birth
d. Home birth
ANS: C


Feedback
A The labor/delivery/recovery/postpartum room setting allows increased parent-
infant contact.
B Birth centers are set up to allow an increase in parent-infant contact.
C In the traditional hospital setting, the mother may see the infant for only short
feeding periods, and the infant is cared for in a separate nursery.
D Home births allow an increase in parent-infant contact.

PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p. 3
OBJ: Nursing Process: Planning MSC: Client Needs: Health Promotion and Maintenance

4. As a result of changes in health care delivery and funding, a current trend seen in the
pediatric setting is:
a. Increased hospitalization of children
b. Decreased number of children living in poverty
c. An increase in ambulatory care
d. Decreased use of managed care
ANS: C


Feedback
A Hospitalization for children has decreased.
B Health care delivery has not altered the number of children living in poverty.
C One effect of managed care has been that pediatric health care delivery has
shifted dramatically from the acute care setting to the ambulatory setting.
One of the biggest changes in health care has been the growth of managed
care. The number of hospital beds being used has decreased as more care is
given in
outpatient settings and in the home. The number of children living in poverty
has increased over the last decade.
D Managed care has increased in order to control cost.

PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p. 6
OBJ: Nursing Process: Planning
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment

5. The Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program provides:

, a. Well-child examinations for infants and children living at the poverty level
b. Immunizations for high-risk infants and children
c. Screening for infants with developmental disorders
d. Supplemental food supplies to low-income women who are pregnant
or breastfeeding
ANS: D


Feedback
A Medicaid‘s Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment Program
provides for well-child examinations and for treatment of any medical problems
diagnosed during such checkups.
B Children in the WIC program are often linked with immunizations, but that is
not the primary focus of the program.
C Public Law 99-457 provides financial incentives to states to establish
comprehensive early intervention services for infants and toddlers with, or at
risk
for, developmental disabilities.
D WIC is a federal program that provides supplemental food supplies to low-
income women who are pregnant or breastfeeding and to their children until
age 5 years.

PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: p. 2 | Tables 1-1, 1-
9 OBJ: Nursing Process: Assessment MSC: Client Needs: Physiologic Integrity

6. In most states, adolescents who are not emancipated minors must have the permission of
their parents before:
a. Treatment for drug abuse
b. Treatment for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)
c. Accessing birth control
d. Surgery
ANS: D


Feedback
A Most states allow minors to obtain treatment for drug or alcohol abuse without
parental consent.
B Most states allow minors to obtain treatment for STDs without parental
consent.
C In most states, minors are allowed access to birth control without parental
consent.
D If a minor receives surgery without proper informed consent, assault and
battery charges against the care provider can result. This does not apply to an
emancipated minor (a minor child who has the legal competency of an adult
because of circumstances involving marriage, divorce, parenting of a child,
living independently without parents, or enlistment in the armed services).

PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Application REF: p. 19
OBJ: Nursing Process: Planning
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment

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