NACE- Part 1: Care Of The Child Bearing Family Test Practice Q&A’s

NACE- Part 1: Care Of The Child Bearing
Family Test Practice Q&A’s

Connects the pulmonary artery with the aorta allowing blood to bypass the lungs - ✔✔✔ - Ductus
Arteriosus



An intra-atrial opening that shunts blood from the right to the left atria of the heart - ✔✔✔ - Foramen
ovale


Shunts blood from the umbilical vein to the inferior vena cava allowing most of the blood to bypass
the liver - ✔✔✔ - Ductus Venous



Thick substance that surrounds the umbilical cord acting as a physical buffer to prevent pressure on
the vein and the arteries in the cord from interfering with fetal circulation - ✔✔✔ - Wharton's jelly



The failure of the fetus growing at the expected rate - ✔✔✔ - intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR)



Refers to a fetus or neonate larger than normal for age - ✔✔✔ - Macrosomic



Contains one vein and two arteries - ✔✔✔ - umbilical cord



Changes experienced by women that make her think that she might be pregnant. These changes may
be subjective symptoms or objective symptoms or objective signs - ✔✔✔ - Presumptive signs



Amenorrhea, nausea and vomiting, fatigue, urinary frequency, breast changes, quickening, uterine
enlargement, linea nigra, chloasma, striae gravidarum, darkened areola. - ✔✔✔ - Ex of presumptive
signs


Changes observed by an examiner that make the examiner suspect a women is pregnant. These
changes are primarily related to physical changes of the uterus. - ✔✔✔ - Probable signs