NR 327 EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE / QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS 2023/2024

1. Describe the Chadwick’s sign, Goodell’s sign, and Hegar’s sign 2. Differentiating between presumptive, probable, and positive signs of pregnancy 3. Identify the physiologic changes of the pregnant women to the various systems. Cardiovascular GI: causes of heartburn Respiratory Skin: changes that occur Urinary: increase in urination Musculoskeletal changes that are normal for the pregnant women Uterus: the changes that occur, location of the uterus/fundus in the abdomen 5. Identify the essential reasons for balanced nutrition and increase in caloric needs of the pregnant woman 6. Appropriate weight gain per trimester: what is it based on and how much weigh should you gain? 7. Exercise in pregnancy: can you, can’t you, how much, what kind? 8. Identify the most common discomforts experienced by many women in all three of the trimesters of pregnancy and interventions for each. 9. Patient teaching as it relates to each trimester: changes like amenorrhea, cervical changes (goodall’s hegar’s, & chadwicks signs), know what quickening & lightening is; know when things occur across the trimesters 10. True vs false labor how do you know the difference? 11. Danger signs in pregnancy to report 12. Fetal Testing: MSAFP: Why is it done, When is it done? Who gets it done? 13. Pre and post nursing care for a patient undergoing an amniocentesis. 14. Know how to calculate an EDC/EDD/EDB Nageles Rule? 15. Describe Gravida and Para and its significance to the nurse with the health assessment of the woman. 16. Know how to classify the patient in the GTPAL classification. 17. Describe the ma