Peds: Introduction to Maternity and
Pediatric Nursing Chapter 1 questions and
answers 2025/2026
Range of Opportunities in Maternity Nursing - answerProvide care from puberty to menopause
Specialties include: prenatal care, labor and delivery, postpartum care, newborn care, neonatal intensive
care, women's health, and infertility care
Pediatric Nursing's involves - answercaring for children btw birth and 18 years
Focus on: normal growth and development, acute, chronic, and critical care issues, and end-of-life and
palliative care
Nursing Manager definition of Quality: - answer- Wise use of Resources
- Lack of errors in providing care
- Positive patient feedback
Bedside Nurse definition of Quality: - answer- Delivery of safe and effective care
Physician/Midwife definition of Quality: - answer- Positive patient response to medications and
interventions without complications
Patient Definition of Quality: - answer- Meets expectations for improvement and recovery
Institute of Medicine definition of Quality: - answer- "The degree to which health services for individuals
and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current
professional knowledge."
Ways for nurses to improve quality: - answer- Work in scope of practice
- Utilize standards of care based on evidence-based practice
- Make sound decisions in providing care
, - Deliver family and patient-centered care with attention to specific needs, values, and expectations of
patient and family
- Identify errors and hazards
Ways for nurses to improve quality: (part 2) - answer- Implement safety principles
- Collaborate with heath team members to reduce errors and improve care
- Utilize hospital resources in a cost-effective manner by not wasting materials and time
- Provide equal care to all patients that does not vary in quality based upon gender, ethnicity, culture
and socioeconomic status
Roles in Maternity/Peds Nursing: CNA - answer- assist patient's daily needs of nutrition, dressing, and
movement
- take vital signs, collect specimens, assist with transportation
- under direct supervision of RNs, NPs, and PAs, or Physicians
Roles in Maternity/Peds Nursing: LPN/LVN - answerMainly work in Post Partum and Newborn Nursey,
not Labor&Delivery
- Provide nursing care in multiple settings under RN, NP, physician or midwife
- May help prep patients for pregnancy and delivery
Roles in Maternity/Peds Nursing: RN - answer- Assess, plan, and provide care to patient, including
teaching, monitoring the pregnancy through delivery, providing postpartum and newborn care, and
caring for pediatric patients across developmental period
Roles in Maternity/Peds Nursing: Nurse Practioner - answer- Prescribe medications
- Contraception, Lactation, Menopause, Postpartum, Fertility, Pre-Pregnancy
- Can't deliver babies
Roles in Maternity/Peds Nursing: CNS (Clinical nurse specialist) - answer- Works alongside nurses
providing education and support
- can't deliver babies
Pediatric Nursing Chapter 1 questions and
answers 2025/2026
Range of Opportunities in Maternity Nursing - answerProvide care from puberty to menopause
Specialties include: prenatal care, labor and delivery, postpartum care, newborn care, neonatal intensive
care, women's health, and infertility care
Pediatric Nursing's involves - answercaring for children btw birth and 18 years
Focus on: normal growth and development, acute, chronic, and critical care issues, and end-of-life and
palliative care
Nursing Manager definition of Quality: - answer- Wise use of Resources
- Lack of errors in providing care
- Positive patient feedback
Bedside Nurse definition of Quality: - answer- Delivery of safe and effective care
Physician/Midwife definition of Quality: - answer- Positive patient response to medications and
interventions without complications
Patient Definition of Quality: - answer- Meets expectations for improvement and recovery
Institute of Medicine definition of Quality: - answer- "The degree to which health services for individuals
and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current
professional knowledge."
Ways for nurses to improve quality: - answer- Work in scope of practice
- Utilize standards of care based on evidence-based practice
- Make sound decisions in providing care
, - Deliver family and patient-centered care with attention to specific needs, values, and expectations of
patient and family
- Identify errors and hazards
Ways for nurses to improve quality: (part 2) - answer- Implement safety principles
- Collaborate with heath team members to reduce errors and improve care
- Utilize hospital resources in a cost-effective manner by not wasting materials and time
- Provide equal care to all patients that does not vary in quality based upon gender, ethnicity, culture
and socioeconomic status
Roles in Maternity/Peds Nursing: CNA - answer- assist patient's daily needs of nutrition, dressing, and
movement
- take vital signs, collect specimens, assist with transportation
- under direct supervision of RNs, NPs, and PAs, or Physicians
Roles in Maternity/Peds Nursing: LPN/LVN - answerMainly work in Post Partum and Newborn Nursey,
not Labor&Delivery
- Provide nursing care in multiple settings under RN, NP, physician or midwife
- May help prep patients for pregnancy and delivery
Roles in Maternity/Peds Nursing: RN - answer- Assess, plan, and provide care to patient, including
teaching, monitoring the pregnancy through delivery, providing postpartum and newborn care, and
caring for pediatric patients across developmental period
Roles in Maternity/Peds Nursing: Nurse Practioner - answer- Prescribe medications
- Contraception, Lactation, Menopause, Postpartum, Fertility, Pre-Pregnancy
- Can't deliver babies
Roles in Maternity/Peds Nursing: CNS (Clinical nurse specialist) - answer- Works alongside nurses
providing education and support
- can't deliver babies
