Midwifery Exam Practice Questions & Answers Correct 100%

Hypothyroidism - Answer A condition of a deficient thyroid Tachypnea - Answer Fast breathing Apnea - Answer not breathing Antepartum - Answer before birth Postpartum - Answer after birth Intrapartum - Answer between birth Dystocia - Answer Condition of a difficult/abnormal childbirth Lymphoma - Answer lymphatic tumor Bradycardia - Answer slow heart Primigravida - Answer a women who is pregnant for the first time Appendectomy - Answer surgical removal of the appendix Hysterectomy - Answer surgical removal of the uterus Anesthesia - Answer without feeling Multipara - Answer a woman that has had more than one offspring Hypothermia - Answer low temperature Perianal - Answer around the rectum Sublingual - Answer pertaining to under the tongue Dysuria - Answer condition of painful urination Suprapubic - Answer above the pubis Pelvimetry - Answer measurement of the pelvis A fast heart rate - Answer tachycardia A condition of decreased urine - Answer cystitis Bladder inflammation - Answer Uritis An inflamed vein caused by a clot - Answer thrombophlebitis condition of having high blood sugar - Answer hyperglycemia Destruction of blood - Answer hemolysis An abnormal condition of appearing blue - Answer cyanosis excessive vomiting - Answer peremesis Disease of the nerves - Answer neuropathy Difficulty breathing - Answer dyspnea A woman who has never given birth - Answer nulliparous A woman who has given birth once - Answer primiparous white blood cells - Answer leukocytes A condition of having a lack of clotting cells (platelets) - Answer thrombopenia Having too much water from the amnion - Answer polyhydramnios You have been having chronic pains in your upper abdomen and your physician refers you to a specialist in diseases of the digestive tract called a - Answer Gastroenterologist Your mother is having her uterus surgically removed along with her ovaries. Removal of ovaries is called - Answer hysterectomy A woman has become sterile due to chronic inflammation of her uterine tubes from frequent infection with sexually transmitted diseases. This tubal inflammation is called - Answer salpingitis A female patient has a special X-ray procedure of the breasts performed the X-ray image is called a - Answer mammogram Inflammation of the veins is termed - Answer phlebitis The medical technician who draws blood from a vein for laboratory tests is called a - Answer phlebotomist A hemangioma means - Answer A tumor of blood vessels Meningitis refers to - Answer inflammation of the membranes around the brain A baby is born without a brain. The diagnosis would be - Answer anencephalic Surgical removal of an inflamed gallbladder containing stones is termed - Answer cholecystectomy A gravid woman is having genetic testing done. The physician will puncture the uterus to withdraw amniotic fluid to be used for testing. This procedure is called - Answer amniocentesis A newborn with meconium aspiration pneumonia often finds it difficult or painful to breath. The term for this is - Answer dyspnea Pregnant women frequently complain of the need to urinate frequently during the night. The term for this is - Answer nocturia A lab report comes back to documenting numerous erythrocytes in the urine specimen. The term for this is - Answer hematuria Oligomenorrhea refers to - Answer scanty, less than normal menstrual flow Total arrest and cessation of breathing is termed - Answer apnea Orchiditis is the term for inflammation of a/an - Answer testis Which term defines painful joints? - Answer Arthritis Surgical suturing of a uterine tube is termed - Answer salpingorrhaphy Glossitis defines inflammation of the - Answer tongue The definition of a midwife as adopted by the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) includes - Answer 1. Has completed a midwifery program recognized in the country in which it is located 2.That the midwifery education is based on the ICM Essential Competencies for Basic Midwifery Practice and Global Standards for Midwifery Education 3. Has met requirements to be legally licensed to practice midwifery What were the prevailing attitudes towards midwives in the colonial period of the US? - Answer Midwives were valued and respected members of the community. Midwives were women to be treated with dignity and supported by the community English midwives of the seventeenth century were licensed by - Answer The Church of England What were some factors in the decline of midwifery between the 16th and 20th centuries - Answer 1. Religious attitudes that viewed midwives as a threat and/or as being witches 2. Midwives lack of access to education 3. Campaign by physicians to discredit midwives 4. Midwives' lack of organization 5. The general low status of women in society 6. Replacement of midwives with physicians Delivering babies was historically viewed as "women's work". What factors led men to become interested in attending women in birth? - Answer Medicine became more competitive, and birth was viewed as a lucrative business and attending a woman during birth ensured an ongoing patient population consisting of the whole family What was on way that pregnant women contributed to the decline of midwifery in the 18th and 19th centuries? - Answer By following the fashionable trend to have male midwives attend them What factor could have sustained the practice of midwifery? - Answer Allowing women access to medical education Tactics used to discredit midwives in the early 20th century included which of the following? Select all that apply. A. Characterizing midwives as slovenly and unclean B. Promoting legislation to standardize and broaden midwifery practice C. Blaming the high infant and maternal mortality rates on midwives D. portraying midwives as "loose" women, promiscuous and immoral E. Claims that trying to improve the practices of midwives was impossible - Answer A, C, D, E What was the goal of the "midwife problem" campaign? Select all that apply. A. To prevent midwives from practicing B. To prevent midwives from overcharging C. To determine and set fair fees for midwifery services D. To improve obstetric care practices E. To raise the status of physicians - Answer A The first nurse-midwifery service in the US (Select all that apply) A. was staffed by British trained midwives brought to the US by Mary Breckinridge B. provided care to families in remote, mostly primitive areas of the Kentucky mountains C. had, over the first 25 years of service, a maternal mortality rate of 12 per 10,000, compared to the national rate of 34 per 10,000 for the same period D. established the first school for midwives in the US - Answer A, B, C Which of the following statements are true about midwifery and childbirth, up until the mid-1900s (select all that apply) A. "traditional" midwives continued to pass on their knowledge via apprenticeship B. birth moved from taking place primarily in the home to primarily in the hospital C. some health departments provided training of midwives by public health nurses D. Fewer physicians and the higher birth rate (1950s "baby boom") led to acceptance of midwives and hospital privileges for CNMs. - Answer B, C The Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA) was established (select all that apply) A. in 1982 B. as an organization supporting all midwives C. as a school for direct-entry (non-nurse) midwives D. and identified core competencies and standards for midwives E. and began certifying direct-entry midwives - Answer A, B, C, D, E MANA helped from which organization? - Answer NARM What organizations offer certification for non-nurse midwives? - Answer ACNM and MEAC National accreditation of midwifery education programs leading to the Certified Professional Midwife credential is through the? - Answer Midwifery Education and Accreditation Council True or False? Direct-entry midwifery is illegal in some states - Answer True Lay midwifery was first legalized in Texas in: - Answer Midwifery has always been legal in Texas What was the name of the book published in 1975 that had a major impact on both natural childbirth and midwives/midwifery? - Answer Spiritual Midwifery Who authored the book "Spiritual Midwifery"? - Answer Ina May Gaskin Define "Core Competencies" - Answer delineate the fundamental knowledge, skills and behaviors expected of members of the profession What are the following are the four broad principles that define the ethics of working with or caring for human beings? - Answer Autonomy, Beneficence, Justice and Nonmaleficence Credit for the perseverance of midwifery as a profession in the US should be given to - Answer Women's insistence on midwifery care Competency-based certification by the North American Registry of Midwives includes all of the following except: A. Verification of character B. Verification of minimum clinical requirements C. Demonstration of required knowledge and skills D. A psychological evaluation to ensure an applicant is mentally sound E. A choice of various educational pathways - Answer D A laboring woman's body will function the best when - Answer She feels relaxed and at ease Who is the only direct care provider for the fetus during pregnancy - Answer The mother According to Elizabeth Davis, the midwife's most basic task is to - Answer Promote a mother's relaxation and peace of mind, help promote bonding between mother and baby, guarantee a safe birth with a good outcome and ensure that the mother's wishes are always heeded By careful and on-going prenatal assessments the midwife can - Answer Anticipate potential situations during labor and identify normal values, such as blood pressure and baseline fetal heart rate What is a pre-existing health condition that would make a woman at high risk for problems and require hospital birth? - Answer Diabetes What skill is a lost midwifery art? - Answer Pelvimetry Is Nausea a CD or DS? - Answer CD Is heartburn a CD or DS? - Answer CD