NSG 432 Topics Exam 1 questions
with accurate answers
Maternity Nurse - correct answer ✔✔ Maternity nurses teach about pregnancy; the process of
labor, birth, and recovery; newborn care, and parenting skills.
Health Disparity - correct answer ✔✔ African-Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics, Alaska
Natives, and Asian/Pacific Islanders experience significant disparities in morbidity and mortality
rates compared to Caucasians. Shorter life expectancy, higher infant and maternal mortality
rates, more birth defects, and more sexually transmitted infections are found among these
ethnic and racial minority groups.The disparities are thought to result from a complex
interaction among biologic factors, environment, socioeconomic factors, and health behaviors.
Social determinants of health are those nonbiologic factors that have profound influences on
health. Disparities in education and income are associated with differences in morbidity and
mortality.
The HRSA Health Disparities Collaboratives - correct answer ✔✔ are part of a national effort to
eliminate disparities and improve delivery systems of health care for all people in the United
States who are cared for in HRSA-supported health centers.
- correct answer ✔✔ National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities (NPA), sponsored
by the Office of Minority Health, has developed priorities to address and end health disparities
- correct answer ✔✔ The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI, 2016) has implemented
virtual training sessions on Advancing Safer Maternal and Newborn Care
Family - correct answer ✔✔ The primary unit of socialization
,Nuclear Family - correct answer ✔✔ A Husband, wife, and their children (either biologic or
adopted)
Extended Family - correct answer ✔✔ Extended family members include grandparents, aunts,
uncles, or other people related by blood.
Multigenerational families - correct answer ✔✔ Consists of three or more generations of
relatives (grandparents, children, grandchildren)
No-biologic-parent families - correct answer ✔✔ Child lives independently in foster or kinship
care such as living with a grandparent.
Married-blended families - correct answer ✔✔ Those formed as a result of divorce and
remarriage, consist of unrelated family members (stepparents, stepchildren, stepsiblings) who
join to create a new household.
Cohabiting-parent families - correct answer ✔✔ Those in which children live with two
unmarried biologic parents or two adoptive parents. Hispanic children are almost twice as likely
as African-American children to live in cohabiting-parent families and about four times as likely
as Caucasian children to live in this kind of family arrangement
Single-parent families - correct answer ✔✔ Unmarried biologic or adoptive parent who may or
may not be living with other adults.
Heterosexual Family - correct answer ✔✔ Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) may live
together with or without children.
Genogram - correct answer ✔✔ Family tree format depicting relationships of family members
over at least three generations
, Ecomap - correct answer ✔✔ A graphic portrayal of social relationships of the woman and
family, may also help the nurse understand the social environment of the family and identify
support systems available to them
Perinatal Continuum of Care - correct answer ✔✔ Continuous care across life stages
From home to hospital is crucial for health
The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses - correct answer ✔✔
Defines home care as the provision of technical, psychologic, and other therapeutic support in
the woman's home rather than in an institution.
Healthy People goals - correct answer ✔✔ (1) attaining high-quality, longer lives free of
preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death; (2) achieving health equity,
eliminating disparities, and improving the health of all groups; (3) creating social and physical
environments that promote good health for all; and (4) promoting quality of life, healthy
development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages
Cultural knowledge - correct answer ✔✔ includes beliefs and values about each facet of life and
is passed from one generation to the next. Cultural beliefs and traditions relate to food,
language, religion, spirituality, art, health and healing practices, kinship relationships, and all
other aspects of community, family, and individual life.
Subculture - correct answer ✔✔ a group existing within a larger cultural system that retains its
own characteristics.
Acculturation - correct answer ✔✔ Acculturation refers to the changes that occur within one
group or among several groups when people from different cultures come into contact with one
another.
with accurate answers
Maternity Nurse - correct answer ✔✔ Maternity nurses teach about pregnancy; the process of
labor, birth, and recovery; newborn care, and parenting skills.
Health Disparity - correct answer ✔✔ African-Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics, Alaska
Natives, and Asian/Pacific Islanders experience significant disparities in morbidity and mortality
rates compared to Caucasians. Shorter life expectancy, higher infant and maternal mortality
rates, more birth defects, and more sexually transmitted infections are found among these
ethnic and racial minority groups.The disparities are thought to result from a complex
interaction among biologic factors, environment, socioeconomic factors, and health behaviors.
Social determinants of health are those nonbiologic factors that have profound influences on
health. Disparities in education and income are associated with differences in morbidity and
mortality.
The HRSA Health Disparities Collaboratives - correct answer ✔✔ are part of a national effort to
eliminate disparities and improve delivery systems of health care for all people in the United
States who are cared for in HRSA-supported health centers.
- correct answer ✔✔ National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities (NPA), sponsored
by the Office of Minority Health, has developed priorities to address and end health disparities
- correct answer ✔✔ The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI, 2016) has implemented
virtual training sessions on Advancing Safer Maternal and Newborn Care
Family - correct answer ✔✔ The primary unit of socialization
,Nuclear Family - correct answer ✔✔ A Husband, wife, and their children (either biologic or
adopted)
Extended Family - correct answer ✔✔ Extended family members include grandparents, aunts,
uncles, or other people related by blood.
Multigenerational families - correct answer ✔✔ Consists of three or more generations of
relatives (grandparents, children, grandchildren)
No-biologic-parent families - correct answer ✔✔ Child lives independently in foster or kinship
care such as living with a grandparent.
Married-blended families - correct answer ✔✔ Those formed as a result of divorce and
remarriage, consist of unrelated family members (stepparents, stepchildren, stepsiblings) who
join to create a new household.
Cohabiting-parent families - correct answer ✔✔ Those in which children live with two
unmarried biologic parents or two adoptive parents. Hispanic children are almost twice as likely
as African-American children to live in cohabiting-parent families and about four times as likely
as Caucasian children to live in this kind of family arrangement
Single-parent families - correct answer ✔✔ Unmarried biologic or adoptive parent who may or
may not be living with other adults.
Heterosexual Family - correct answer ✔✔ Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) may live
together with or without children.
Genogram - correct answer ✔✔ Family tree format depicting relationships of family members
over at least three generations
, Ecomap - correct answer ✔✔ A graphic portrayal of social relationships of the woman and
family, may also help the nurse understand the social environment of the family and identify
support systems available to them
Perinatal Continuum of Care - correct answer ✔✔ Continuous care across life stages
From home to hospital is crucial for health
The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses - correct answer ✔✔
Defines home care as the provision of technical, psychologic, and other therapeutic support in
the woman's home rather than in an institution.
Healthy People goals - correct answer ✔✔ (1) attaining high-quality, longer lives free of
preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death; (2) achieving health equity,
eliminating disparities, and improving the health of all groups; (3) creating social and physical
environments that promote good health for all; and (4) promoting quality of life, healthy
development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages
Cultural knowledge - correct answer ✔✔ includes beliefs and values about each facet of life and
is passed from one generation to the next. Cultural beliefs and traditions relate to food,
language, religion, spirituality, art, health and healing practices, kinship relationships, and all
other aspects of community, family, and individual life.
Subculture - correct answer ✔✔ a group existing within a larger cultural system that retains its
own characteristics.
Acculturation - correct answer ✔✔ Acculturation refers to the changes that occur within one
group or among several groups when people from different cultures come into contact with one
another.
