NSG 3022 - OB EXAM 1 2025/2026 Exam
Questions and Answers | 100% Pass
What are some reasons that the maternal mortality rate has increased? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔- lacking in nurse midwives and adequate access to health care in
the postpartum period
Who is more at risk for death related to birth? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Black women
Is a doula a provider? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔No, more so a support person/advocate
True or false? The United States has one of the lowest rates of infant mortality
among wealthy nations. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔False
True or false? There are significant racial disparities in rates of maternal death in
the United States. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔True
True or false? Structural and systemic racism contributes to rates of maternal
morbidity and mortality in the United States. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔True
,True or false? Nurse midwives provide care to approximately 50% of pregnant
clients in the United States. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔False
True or false? Most births attended by midwives in the United States are home
births. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔False
True or false? Birth doula care is associated with improved maternal health
outcomes. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔True
True or false? All Americans have equal access to quality healthcare. - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔False
True or false? Early prenatal care can promote better pregnancy outcomes through
risk assessment and education. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔True
Barriers to entering the healthcare system (4): - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Financial issues
2. Social determinants of health
3. Cultural issues
4. Gender identity and sexual orientation
Holistic approach to women's healthcare includes a woman's... - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health
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,When is critical fetal organ development? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔between 15 and 56
days after fertilization
Perimenopause - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- irregular bleeding
- vasomotor symptoms (hot flashes/flushes)
Female reproductive system anatomy and physiology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔watch a
YouTube video!
Amenorrhea - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔absence of menstrual flow
- normally results from pregnancy
- could be a sign of a disease
PMS (premenstrual syndrome) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- poorly understood
- affects about 75% of women at some point
- fluid retention, pelvic fullness, edema, breast tenderness, depression, irritability,
cravings, headache, fatigue, backache
- follows cyclical pattern
- symptom free period follows
- interferes with normal activities
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, - women who have had hysterectomies can still experience if they still have their
ovaries
Early onset menstruation is linked to... - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔moderate obesity
Delayed onset menstruation is linked to... - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-
malnutrition/starvation
- pattern of strenuous exercise before menstruation
Endometriosis is characterized by: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the presence/growth of
endometrial tissue outside of the uterus
What forms in endometriosis? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- lesions and adhesions (respond
to hormones like endometrium)
Endometriosis - signs and symptoms: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- pelvic pain
- dysmenorrhea
- painful sex
- abnormal bleeding
- infertility
Endometriosis management: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- estrogen suppression
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Questions and Answers | 100% Pass
What are some reasons that the maternal mortality rate has increased? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔- lacking in nurse midwives and adequate access to health care in
the postpartum period
Who is more at risk for death related to birth? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Black women
Is a doula a provider? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔No, more so a support person/advocate
True or false? The United States has one of the lowest rates of infant mortality
among wealthy nations. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔False
True or false? There are significant racial disparities in rates of maternal death in
the United States. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔True
True or false? Structural and systemic racism contributes to rates of maternal
morbidity and mortality in the United States. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔True
,True or false? Nurse midwives provide care to approximately 50% of pregnant
clients in the United States. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔False
True or false? Most births attended by midwives in the United States are home
births. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔False
True or false? Birth doula care is associated with improved maternal health
outcomes. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔True
True or false? All Americans have equal access to quality healthcare. - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔False
True or false? Early prenatal care can promote better pregnancy outcomes through
risk assessment and education. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔True
Barriers to entering the healthcare system (4): - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Financial issues
2. Social determinants of health
3. Cultural issues
4. Gender identity and sexual orientation
Holistic approach to women's healthcare includes a woman's... - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health
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,When is critical fetal organ development? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔between 15 and 56
days after fertilization
Perimenopause - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- irregular bleeding
- vasomotor symptoms (hot flashes/flushes)
Female reproductive system anatomy and physiology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔watch a
YouTube video!
Amenorrhea - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔absence of menstrual flow
- normally results from pregnancy
- could be a sign of a disease
PMS (premenstrual syndrome) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- poorly understood
- affects about 75% of women at some point
- fluid retention, pelvic fullness, edema, breast tenderness, depression, irritability,
cravings, headache, fatigue, backache
- follows cyclical pattern
- symptom free period follows
- interferes with normal activities
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, - women who have had hysterectomies can still experience if they still have their
ovaries
Early onset menstruation is linked to... - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔moderate obesity
Delayed onset menstruation is linked to... - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-
malnutrition/starvation
- pattern of strenuous exercise before menstruation
Endometriosis is characterized by: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the presence/growth of
endometrial tissue outside of the uterus
What forms in endometriosis? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- lesions and adhesions (respond
to hormones like endometrium)
Endometriosis - signs and symptoms: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- pelvic pain
- dysmenorrhea
- painful sex
- abnormal bleeding
- infertility
Endometriosis management: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- estrogen suppression
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