Week 11: chapter 16 Flashcards
What single factor, in Canada, is associated with poorer outcomes for mothers and children?
a. Access to prenatal education
b. Access to medical care
c. Geography
d. poverty
d. poverty
What best describes the concept of maternal health care in Canada?
a. Family planning through to postnatal care
b. Pregnancy, birth, and postpartum care
c. Preconception counselling
d. Prenatal education to prevent birth defects
a. family planning through to postnatal care
What is an example of a reproductive right?
a. Freedom from socio-economic disadvantages
b. Access to appropriate health care
c. Right to use reproductive technologies
d. Deciding on the number of children
d. deciding on the number of children
What statement is correct about the maternal mortality rate in Canada from 19972011?
a. The rate was highest from 2001-2003
b. The rate was lowest from 2005-2007
c. Rates have increased over the past three decades
d. Rates have doubled over the past four decades
a. the rate was highest from 2001-2003
What is an example of the medicalization of childbirth?
a. Delivering in hospital assisted by a midwife
b. Having an episiotomy
c. Squatting to deliver
d. Delivering at home assisted by a midwife
b. having an episiotomy
A woman has electronic fetal monitoring during her labour. What term would best describe this practice?
a. Maternal health care
b. Liberal individualism
c. Reproductive right
d. Medicalization
d. medicalization
What is the leading cause of maternal mortality in Canada?
a. Postpartum hemorrhage
b. Obstetric embolism
c. Diseases of the circulatory system
d. Antepartum hemorrhage
c. diseases of the circulatory system
Which statement is correct regarding breastfeeding in Canada?
a. The rates of breastfeeding initiation are lower in eastern Canada
b. The rates of breastfeeding initiation are lower in western Canada
c. Breastfeeding at 6 months of age is was higher in 2011 than 2003
d. Breastfeeding at 4 months of age was lower in 2011 than 2003
c. Breastfeeding at 6 months of age is was higher in 2011 than 2003
An Inuit woman leaves her community to deliver her baby in an urban centre. How might this impact access to care for others in the community?
a. Ensures access to the latest technology
b. Decreases access to community-based midwives
c. Increases risks of maternal complications
d. Reduces risk of maternal complications
b. Decreases access to community-based midwives
What is the most common reason cited for why Canadian mothers discontinue breastfeeding?
a. The infant was ready for solids
b. The mother needed to return to work
c. Breastfeeding was inconvenient
d. The mother did not have enough breast milk
b. the mother needed to return to work
Which of the following statements is true about women who smoke during pregnancy?
a. Women who smoke during pregnancy are more likely to be younger
b. Women who smoke during pregnancy are more likely to be from higher socioeconomic
status
c. Women who smoke during pregancy are more likely to have a post secondary
education
d. Women who smoke during pregnancy are more likely to be married
a. Women who smoke during pregnancy are more likely to be younger
Which of the following statements is true regarding teenage mothers?
a. Teenage mothers are less likely to experience postpartum depression as adult
mothers are
b. Teenage mothers are more likely to experience postpartum depression as adult
mothers are
c. Teenage girls are less likely to binge drink during pregnancy
d. Tennage girls are more likely to come for higher socioeconomic status
b. Teenage mothers are more likely to experience postpartum depression as adult
Which of the following is an example of an indicator that is used to measure child well-being in Canada?
a. Maternal mortality rate
b. Breastfeeding rates
c. Child death rate
d. relative risk
c. child death rate
What Canadian agency is responsible for tracking the health of children?
a. No Canadian agency is responsible for this
b. The Public Health Agency of Canada
c. The Canadian Association of Midwives
d. The Centre for Child Health
a. no canadian agency is responsible for this
Which territory in Canada has the highest infant mortality rate?
a. Northern Manitoba
b. Northwest Territory
c. Yukon Terrority
d. Nunavut Territory
d. nunavut territory
What is the main reason children present in emergency departments across Canada? a. Injuries
b. Behaviour problems
c. Neglect and abuse
d. Risk of overeating
a. injuries
Which of the following is part of the International Code of Marketing of Meast-Milk Substitutes what was developed by the World Health Organization in 1981?
a. Different types of artificial nipples may be advertised to the public
b. Different types of formula may be advertised to the public
c. Health care facilities may not promote artificial feeding
d. Healthcare facilities may distribute artificial nipples
c. Health care facilities may not promote artificial feeding
Which of the following is associated with physical activity during the preschool years?
a. Decreased motor skill development
b. Improved psychosocial health
c. Increased levels of adiposity
d. Lower measures of cognitive development
b. improved psychosocial health
A nurse visits the Calloway family. Mrs. Calloway states that she is having difficulty feeding her three children. What is the best action for the nurse to take?
a. Provide Mrs. Calloway with money to purchase food
b. Teach Mrs. Calloway how to make nutritious meals with the food she has
c. Ask Mrs. Calloway if the children are in a school lunch program
d. Discuss resources in the community the family can access
d. Discuss resources in the community the family can access
Which of the following is included as one of the seven principles for healthy term infants’ nutrition from 0 – 6 months?
a. Breastfeeding is contraindicated in many instances
b. First complementary foods should be iron-rich
c. Formula feeding is the best method of feeding infants
d. Supplemental vitamin D is recommended for formula fed infants
b. First complementary foods should be iron-rich
Aiden, 1 year old, is noted to be a picky eater. What teaching should the community health
nurse include while speaking to Aiden’s parents?
a. Aiden should be offerred what ever he will accept to eat
b. Aiden should be offerred nutrient dense foods along with breastfeeding
c. Aiden should be offerred nutrient dense foods and unpasteurized cow’s milk
d. Aiden should be offerred unpastuerized goat’s milk with every meal
b. Aiden should be offered nutrient dense foods along with breastfeeding
A new mother and her 6 month old baby arrive at the community health centre for immunizations. The nurse completes a nutrition assessment. Which of the following signs indicate that the infant is ready for other foods?
a. The ability to stand up without assistance
b. The ability to roll from their back to their stomach
c. The ability to speak a few words
d. The ability to sit up a lean forward
d. the ability to sit up a lean forward
A nurse works in a small northern Aboriginal community. Four of the women are pregnant and due to deliver in three to four months. The women tell the nurse that they are upset about having to relocate to a community 600 kilometres away for the last month of the pregnancy. What would be an appropriate comment by the nurse?
a. “The four of you will be together and can support each other”
b. “I have arranged for a doctor to do the deliveries in this community”
c. “It will be safer to deliver in a large hospital”
d. “Let’s discuss this practice and look at options that may work for you”
a. “The four of you will be together and can support each other”
A nurse works in a small northern Aboriginal community. Four of the teenagers are pregnant and due to deliver in three to four months. What is a complication these girls are most likely to experience in the weeks following delivery?
a. Shock
b. Hemorrhage
c. Depression
d. Deep vein thrombosis
c. depression
