MCN(??) Flashcards
Cranial bones of fetal head are:
2 frontal
2 parietal
2 temporal
1 occipital
It is a measurement of the diameter of a baby’s developing skull, from one parietal bone to the other.
Biparietal diameter
Thin spaces between bones, which aid in molding fetal skull
Fontanelles
When hips are flexed; legs and knees extended on the chest.
Frank breech
When caring for a newborn several hours after birth, you assess his respiratory rate. In a normal newborn, this would be
30-60 breaths/min.
Most ideal type of pelvis for vaginal birth
Gynecoid Pelvis
When the intensity of the fundus is hard, firm and rigid almost impossible to indent with fingertips board like fundus. Feels like touching finger to forehead.
Strong
__________ involves development involving the ways that the enduring characteristics that differentiate one person from another change over the lifespan.
Personality Development
An incision sometimes made to increase the size of the opening of the vagina to allow the baby to pass.
Episiotomy
A client has just been transferred to the postpartum unit from labor and delivery. Which of the following nursing care goals is of highest priority?
The client will have a moderate lochial flow.
The nurse observes a healthy woman of African descent expressing breast milk into her baby’s eyes. Which of the following responses by the nurse is appropriate at this time?
Ask the woman about other cultural traditions.
A woman who is relaxed, aware of and participating in the birth process usually has a shorter less intense labor.
TRUE
The approach that suggests that the keys to understanding development are observable behavior and outside stimuli in the environment.
Behavior Perspective
A 1-day postpartum woman states, “I think I have a urinary tract infection. have to go to the bathroom all the time? Which of the following actions should the nurse take?
Obtain an order of urine catheter.
What are the components of the APGAR score?
Skin Color
Which of the following full-term babies requires immediate Intervention?
Baby with a seesaw breathing
A mother, who gave birth 5 minutes ago, states that she would like to breastfeed. The baby’s Apgar score is 9/9 Which of the following actions should the nurse perform first?
Administer the ophthalmic prophylaxis
The first stage of labor in which regular and increasingly frequent uterine contractions widen the cervix. Contractions occur every 8-10 minutes and last about 30 seconds. Contractions force the head of the fetus against the
Dilatation and Effacement
Consists of the pelvic inlet, pelvic cavity, and pelvic outlet, bony canal thru which the infant pass; measurements of true pelvis influence the conduct and progress of labor and delivery.
True pelvis
Sight overlapping of the cranial bones due to the force of uterine contractions pressing the head against the cervix skull becomes elongated, the shape permits passage to the maternal pelvis.
Sutures
When the head is still movable above the pelvic inlet on palpitation
Floating
involves development in which individuals reactions with others and their social relationships grow, change, and remain stable over the course of life
Social Development
are tightening of the uterine muscles during labor exhibits a wavelike pattern.
Contraction
A nurse is providing discharge teaching to the parents of a newborn which of the following should be included when teaching the parents how to care for the baby’s umbilical cord?
Call the doctor if greenish drainage appears.
To check for the presence of Epstein’s pearls, the nurse should assess which part of the neonate’s body?
Mouth
The distance between the anterior surface of sacral prominence & the anterior surface of the inferior margin of symphysis pubis.
Diagonal conjugate
True or False: Nurse Elle tried to assess her G6 P4 client, and notes that effacement comes before dilatation
TRUE
A client is preparing to breastfeed her newborn son in the cross-cradle position. Which of the following actions should the woman make?
Move the breast towards the mouth of the baby.
Most important landmark of the pelvis. Measures the degree of descent.
Ischial spine
A mother questions why the ophthalmic medication is given to the baby Which of the following responses by the nurse would be appropriate to make at this time?
The medicine helps to prevent eye infection
The relationship of the fetal parts to each other
Fetal Attitude
A neonate has an elevated bilirubin and is slightly jaundiced on day 3 of life. What is the probable reason for these changes?
Physiological destruction of fetal red blood cells during the extrauterine period.
During a postpartum assessment, the nurse performs a Homan’s sign. Which of the following actions does the nurse perform?
Dorsiflexes the feet
A nurse must give vitamin K 0.5 mg IM to a newly born baby. Which of the following needles could the nurse safely choose for the injection?
5/8 inch, 25 gauge
Heat loss in the newborn occurs in four different ways. Which way is an example of radiation heat loss?
Heat ass from the newborn body indirectly to a cooler surface.
The process in which people understand a new experience in terms of their current stage of cognitive development and existing ways of thinking.
Assimilation
Routine use of ice packs is not recommended intervention during immediate postpartum
FALSE
The nursing diagnosis-risk for suffocation-is included in a standard care plan in the neonatal nursery. Which of the following outcome goals should be included in relation to this diagnosis?
Baby is placed supine for sleep
Refers to traits abilities and capacities that are inherited from one’s parents
Nature
During a home visit, the nurse assesses a client 2 weeks after delivery, which of the following signs/symptoms should the nurse expect to see?
Lochia alba
A nurse is performing a postpartum assessment on a newly delivered client. Which of the following actions will the nurse perform? Select all that apply
Inspect the perineum
Refers to the environmental influences that shape behavior.
Nurture
You watch a child arranging sugar packets from his meal trays in order of their weight. This activity of conservation is most typical of what age child?
School-age
Imaginary line that separates the upper or false pelvis from the lower or true pelvis
Linea terminals
The nurse is teaching the parents of a female baby how to change the baby’s diapers, which of the following should be included in the teaching?
Always wipe the perineum from front to the back.
The Brazelton Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale is the most commonly used tool to determine a newborn’s gestational age
FALSE
