WGU D447 OA Women’s and Children’s
Health (Latest Update )
Questions with Correct Answers {Grade
A}100% Verified
Exam Overview & Description:
This exam helps nursing students demonstrate competency in caring for women across the
lifespan, including pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum recovery, and pediatric patient care. It
emphasizes safe clinical judgment in maternal and child health, focusing on recognizing
complications in pregnancy, supporting normal and high-risk labor and delivery, and providing
age-appropriate pediatric nursing interventions. Students are expected to apply evidence-based
practice, family-centered care principles, and developmental assessment skills across maternal-
newborn and pediatric populations.
Focus Areas:
• Antepartum Care — prenatal assessments, risk identification, and routine pregnancy
monitoring.
• Intrapartum Care — labor stages, fetal monitoring, and management of labor
complications.
• Postpartum Care — maternal recovery, hemorrhage prevention, and newborn bonding
support.
• Newborn Care — immediate newborn assessment, APGAR scoring, and neonatal
safety.
• Pediatric Growth & Development — developmental milestones and age-appropriate
assessments.
• Common Pediatric Conditions — asthma, infections, dehydration, and chronic illness
management.
• Maternal Complications — preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, and obstetric
emergencies.
• Family-Centered Nursing Care — involving families in decision-making and
education.
,Otitis media - correct answer commonly known as middle ear infection, is an
inflammation of the middle ear
Otitis media risk factors - correct answer allergies, 2nd hand smoke, pacifier use,
physical defects
Otitis media s/s - correct answer diarrhea, vomiting, irritability, pain in ear, fever
Otitis media rx - correct answer full Coarse of antibiotics
Otitis media prevention - correct answer schedule visit for pneumonococcal vaccine
Pain scale - correct answer Riley infant pain scale
FLACC postop pain scale
Heart rate and bp can also determine pain
FLACC pain scale - correct answer face: 0= relaxed, 1= grimacing, 2= cries or shows
other signs of distress
, Legs: 0=relaxed, 1= restless or kicks, 2= draws legs up or pulls away
Activity: 0= relaxed, 1= squirming or shifting, 2= guarded or stiff
Cry: 0= none, 1= moans or whimpers, 2= cries steadily or screams
Consolability: 0= easily comforted, 1= difficult to comfort, 2= inconsolable
Umbilical cord prolapse - correct answer occurs when the umbilical cord descends
into the vagins or cervix before the baby's gead
Umbilical cord prolapse RF - correct answer premature ROM, breech presentation,
polyhydramnios, small baby, low-lying placenta
Umbilical cord prolapse tx - correct answer manual elevation, cesarean delivery,
oxygen therapy, place the client in trendelenburg or knees to chest
Miliaria - correct answer commonly known as heat rash or prickly heat, is a skin
condition caused by blocked sweat glands, leading ti trapped sweat under the skin
(thunk heat and moisture)
Health (Latest Update )
Questions with Correct Answers {Grade
A}100% Verified
Exam Overview & Description:
This exam helps nursing students demonstrate competency in caring for women across the
lifespan, including pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum recovery, and pediatric patient care. It
emphasizes safe clinical judgment in maternal and child health, focusing on recognizing
complications in pregnancy, supporting normal and high-risk labor and delivery, and providing
age-appropriate pediatric nursing interventions. Students are expected to apply evidence-based
practice, family-centered care principles, and developmental assessment skills across maternal-
newborn and pediatric populations.
Focus Areas:
• Antepartum Care — prenatal assessments, risk identification, and routine pregnancy
monitoring.
• Intrapartum Care — labor stages, fetal monitoring, and management of labor
complications.
• Postpartum Care — maternal recovery, hemorrhage prevention, and newborn bonding
support.
• Newborn Care — immediate newborn assessment, APGAR scoring, and neonatal
safety.
• Pediatric Growth & Development — developmental milestones and age-appropriate
assessments.
• Common Pediatric Conditions — asthma, infections, dehydration, and chronic illness
management.
• Maternal Complications — preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, and obstetric
emergencies.
• Family-Centered Nursing Care — involving families in decision-making and
education.
,Otitis media - correct answer commonly known as middle ear infection, is an
inflammation of the middle ear
Otitis media risk factors - correct answer allergies, 2nd hand smoke, pacifier use,
physical defects
Otitis media s/s - correct answer diarrhea, vomiting, irritability, pain in ear, fever
Otitis media rx - correct answer full Coarse of antibiotics
Otitis media prevention - correct answer schedule visit for pneumonococcal vaccine
Pain scale - correct answer Riley infant pain scale
FLACC postop pain scale
Heart rate and bp can also determine pain
FLACC pain scale - correct answer face: 0= relaxed, 1= grimacing, 2= cries or shows
other signs of distress
, Legs: 0=relaxed, 1= restless or kicks, 2= draws legs up or pulls away
Activity: 0= relaxed, 1= squirming or shifting, 2= guarded or stiff
Cry: 0= none, 1= moans or whimpers, 2= cries steadily or screams
Consolability: 0= easily comforted, 1= difficult to comfort, 2= inconsolable
Umbilical cord prolapse - correct answer occurs when the umbilical cord descends
into the vagins or cervix before the baby's gead
Umbilical cord prolapse RF - correct answer premature ROM, breech presentation,
polyhydramnios, small baby, low-lying placenta
Umbilical cord prolapse tx - correct answer manual elevation, cesarean delivery,
oxygen therapy, place the client in trendelenburg or knees to chest
Miliaria - correct answer commonly known as heat rash or prickly heat, is a skin
condition caused by blocked sweat glands, leading ti trapped sweat under the skin
(thunk heat and moisture)
