Funda- Night Flashcards
What deficiency in the diet results in fetal cretinism?
lodine
Water helps regulate body temperature nutrients and excrete waste products. What is the required volume of water daily?
6-8 glasses
Which of the following fluids is contraindicated before sleep?
Hot chocolate
Cold and root beer
Coffee or tea
We can say that a woman is on the active stage of labor if the cervical dilation is ?
4 cm
A client who is pregnant asks the midwife if she can continue to have sexual relations. The midwife’s response is based on the knowledge that coitus during pregnancy would be contraindicated in the presence of:
Premature rupture of membrane
Among which of the following is not a natural method of family planning?
Injectable
A client was diagnosed as having Dengue fever. You will say that there is slow capillary refill when the nailed color that you pressed does not return within how many seconds?
3
When the midwife assists a client to use a bedpan she must position her patient
into a
fowlers position
A 30 weeks’ pregnant mother comes to the RHU for severe head ache.
You will:
Take her BP
This type of bandage is used for uniform thickness part like wrist or finger.
spiral
The midwife would instruct a pregnant woman to notify the physician immediately if the following symptoms occur during the pregnancy?
Swelling of the face
To maximize the effect of lactation amenorrhea, mothers should exclusively breastfeed for:
6 months
Normal breath sounds heard over the lungs are:
vesicular
It is a forcible tearing or partial tearing away of tissues typically caused by explosions, and multiple dog bites causing skin hanging from the body
Avulsion
All of the following are true about bathing,
a. Bathing stimulates circulation.
b. Bathing produces sense of well-being.
c. A warm bath brings nourishment to the skin.
The tourniquet test is considered an important basic screening. Among which of these is check by tourniquet test
H. Fever
Alona will be cleaning an open wound of the patient. What kind of gloves does she has to wear?
Sterile gloves
An agent commonly used on the skin which lowers surface tension and thus
helps in cleaning is:
Soap
Midwife F demonstrates awareness of the single most important infection control technique when she does which of the following?
Washes hands before and after every client contact.
Midwife D knows that this type of order may be carried out indefinitely until an order is written to cancel it, or it may be carried out for a specified number of days:
Standing order
First aid is the immediate action taken to
Care for the injured until medical help is available
Rupture of capillaries due to pressure during delivery can result to bleeding under the scalp called:
Cephalhematoma
In younger people, blood pressure tends to be higher in men than in women. Women’s blood pressure increases more slowly until they reach perimenopause. That slow increase in blood pressure begins to speed up around the menopausal transition, and women’s blood pressure rises at a steeper rate as they get older. Changes in woman’s blood pressure are due to the influence of which hormone?
Estrogen
When you performed Leopold’s maneuver on Mrs. M you palpated hard mass on the first maneuver. Your action is:
advice to deliver in operative cs
What is the level of consciousness if the patient becomes irritable?
Restless
If the location of the pulse is felt below the jaw, it is:
carotid artery
Which of the following is used to suture perineal lacerations in perineorrhapy?
Catgut suture
Midwife Christine is preparing to test the visual acuity of a client with a Snellen Chart. Which of the following indentifies the accurate procedure for this visual acuity test?
The right eye is tested, followed by the left eye; then both eyes are tested.
The majority of the digestion processes take place in the:
Small intestine
The basis for the improvement in strategies in maternal and neonatal care is on Millennium Development Goals, which are:
MDG 4 and 5
The mother received a TT4 injection. TT4 will provide the mother how many years of protection against tetanus?
10 years
The term applied to a condition in which these is dependence and craving for a narcotic or other habit-forming drug is:
addiction
Which among the following is true about body mechanics?
The broader the base of support and the lower the center of gravity, the greater the stability and balance.
Data stated by the client on his chief complaint is
Subjective data
Which of the following cardinal movement as follow to descent is?
flexion
During blood pressure
measurement, the air in the cuff should be released at a steady rate of:
2 mmHg per second
The most complete elimination of all microorganism including bacterial and spores from inanimate objects is
sterilization
You notice that the label on the cough syrup bottle is difficult to read. Your most appropriate action is to:
Return the drug to the pharmacy for relabeling
When collecting a specimen for culture and sensitivity, the midwife must remember that the specimen will be:
Highly contaminated with pathogenic bacteria
Which of the following findings of
Midwife T would prohibit application of heating pad?
Active bleeding
The midwife prepares an IM injection that is irritating to the subcutaneous tissue. Which of the following is the best action in order to prevent tracking of the medication?
Use the Z-track technique
What is the appropriate dosage of BCG injection?
0.05 ml
Aling Maria reports discomfort after eating. Your assessment indicates that she is experiencing a burning sensation in the esophageal area that radiates upward, as well as frequent burping of small amounts of sour tasting liquid. You instruct her about measures related to:
Pyrosis
A client is recovering from abdominal surgery and has a large abdominal wound. A midwife encourages the client to eat which food item that is naturally high in vitamins c to promote wound healing?
oranges
The following are appropriate
interventions for diarrhea,
Replace fluids
Provide good perineal care
Provide-potassium-rich foods
A cut in skin with jagged, irregular edges and caused by a forceful tearing away of skin tissue
Avulsion
Which of the following would not be a risk factor for skin breakdown?
Adequate hydration
Mrs. Manuel, 54 years old, had her menopause 2 yrs. ago, came to the clinic and complained about vaginal bleeding. What is your appropriate action?
Advice for further examination because it is abnormal
John has a fever of 38.5 Deg. Celsius. It surges at around 40 Degrees and go back to 38.5 degrees 6 times today in a typical pattern. What kind of fever is John having?
Remittent
A pregnant mother who receives an
injection of TT2 may be protected against tetanus for
3 years
Any substance that injures or kills through its chemical action when inhaled, injected, applied or absorbed in relatively small amounts is:
Poison
The priority when providing oral hygiene to
an unconscious client is to:
Prevent aspiration.
Calorie deficiency in extreme cases results in a condition called
marasmus
Infant who breast feed receive antibodies from their mothers thru the first few feeding, the type of immunity is called:
natural passive
What vaccine is safe to inject to a pregnant Mother and to the baby
Pneumococcal
Patient is for roll over test. The midwife should position the patient in:
sims
The process involved in the exchange of gasses in the lungs:
Diffusion
When fever returns to normal temperature gradually it is called:
Resolution by lysis
Midwife Myrla is performing primary
assessment on a child who is unresponsive.
To assess for the presence of pulse, Midwife Myrla is most likely to palpate for:
Carotid pulse
The doctors order for the treatment
of the newborn thrush is nystatin ointment 1ml QID; this common medical abbreviation
QID means?
four times a
day
This is a wound caused by a blunt object penetrate the tissue:
puncture
The milk ejection reflex influence by which of the following hormone
Oxytocic
The appropriate application of the
BP cuff into the client’s arm is
2/3
When administering post-mortem care, Midwife lae knows that when there’s gradual decrease of the body’s temperature after death it is referred as:
Algor mortis
The pregnant mother with PIH has a convulsion. What is your priority?
Place her at side-lying and protect the head
Vitamin D or calciferol helps in the
deposition of calcium and phosphate ions in the bones. However, when the diet is deficient in calciferol, there is an increased loss of calcium ions through urine, causing twisted and bent bones. In children, the bones become soft, easily bent or deformed, and are susceptible to getting fractured. What condition is caused by Vit? D deficiency?
Rickets
To complete a backrub, the motion of your strokes should be:
Moving upward along the spinal cord, downward at the periphery
Which of the following assessment findings would be documented as objective data?
Redness and swelling on arm
What type of injury is a cut from broken glass likely to inflict?
Incised
If the arm is said to be elevated when taking the blood pressure. It will create
False low reading
Midwife R knows that an open wound characterized by jagged skin edges and free bleeding is:
A laceration
Hypoplasia and yellow discoloration of the primary teeth have occurred in infants whose pregnant mothers were treated with the drug:
Tetracycline.
Very deep slightly rapid breathing of diabetic patients is:
Kussmaul
Prolonged deficiency of Vitamin B12 leads to:
Pernicious anemia
Measles is a viral infection affecting mostly children producing prodromal symptoms such as high grade fever, Cough, Coryza and Conjunctivitis which usually last for 1-3 days. Measles is highly contagious during
4 days before the rash appears
The best way to take the body temperature of a 3 years old child is
tympanic
substance usually intended for use on inanimate objects, that destroys pathogens but not the spores.
Disinfectant
During the enema, the client begins to complain of pain. Midwife Bebe notes blood in the return fluid and rectal bleeding. The midwife’s actions are to?
Stop the instillation and obtain vital signs
If a victim has an injured arm, a bandage can be used as a sling to support the arm in a bent position over the chest and can be used around the torso as a swathe, to immobilize the arm against the chest. This type of bandaging is known as
Triangular
In handwashing by medical asepsis, hands are held:
Below the elbow, Hands are dirtier than the lower arms