Maternity and Pediatric Nursing: Chapter 8 "The Labor Process" Exam Questions With Accurate Answers Already Passed

Maternity and Pediatric Nursing:
Chapter 8 "The Labor Process" Exam
Questions With Accurate Answers
Already Passed

Android Pelvis - CORRECT ANSWER-male-shaped pelvis, "funnel shaped", pelvic inlet
heart shaped, fetus typically fails to rotate, prognosis of labor poor, leads to C-section



Anthropoid Pelvis - CORRECT ANSWER-common in men, pelvic inlet oval, sacrum
long, wider front to back



Caput Succedaneum - CORRECT ANSWER-Diffuse swelling or collection of serum
under the scalp of the newborn from birth trauma. Differentiated from cephalhematoma
by unrestriction by the sutures of the skull



Platypelloid pelvis - CORRECT ANSWER-least common type, pelvic cavity shallow,
makes it difficult for fetus to descend through mid-pelvis, labor prognosis poor, leads to
C-section



Station - CORRECT ANSWER-refers to the presenting part of the fetus in relation to the
ischial spines of the pelvis



True pelvis - CORRECT ANSWER-Bottom of pelvis. Consists of pelvic inlet, mid pelvis,
and pelvis outlet



4 "P's" of Labor - CORRECT ANSWER-Passageway, Passenger, Powers, Psyche