NR 327 Chapter 2 The Nurses Role in Maternity and Womens Health Care

Chapter 02: The Nurse’s Role in Maternity and Women’s Health Care

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. Which principle of teaching should the nurse use to ensure learning in a family situation?

2. Which nursing intervention is an independent function of the nurse?

3. Which most therapeutic response to the client’s statement, “I’m afraid to have a cesarean birth” should be made by the nurse?

4. Which action should the nurse take to evaluate the client’s learning about performing infant care?

5. A nurse is reviewing teaching and learning principles. Which situation is most conducive to learning?

6. Which is the step of the nursing process in which the nurse determines the appropriate interventions for the identified nursing diagnosis?

7. Which goal is most appropriate for the collaborative problem of wound infection?

8. Which nursing intervention is correctly written?

9. The client makes the statement: “I’m afraid to take the baby home tomorrow.” Which response by the nurse would be the most therapeutic?

10. The nurse is writing an expected outcome for the nursing diagnosis—acute pain related to trauma of tissue, secondary to vaginal birth, as evidenced by client stating pain of 8 on a scale of 10. Which is a correctly stated expected outcome for this problem?

11. Which nursing diagnosis should the nurse set as a priority for a laboring client?

12. Regarding advanced roles of nursing, which statement is true with regard to clinical practice?

13. You are taking care of a couple postbirth who are very eager to learn about bathing techniques that they can use for their newborn. Which teaching technique could the nurse use to facilitate parents learning about giving a bath to their newborn infant?

14. Which statement is true regarding the shortage of nurses in the United States?

15. A hospital has achieved Magnet status. Which indicators would be consistent with this type of certification?

16. Which of the following indicates a nurse’s role as a researcher?

17. A 16-year-old primipara has just completed her first prenatal visit with the health care provider. The nurse is preparing to teach her about nutrition during pregnancy. What must the nurse include in the patient’s teaching plan?

18. The nurse states to the newly pregnant patient, “Tell me how you feel about being pregnant.” Which communication technique is the nurse using with this patient?

19. The pregnant woman tells the nurse, “I think something may be wrong with my pregnancy.” Which statement by the nurse demonstrates therapeutic communication?

20. The nurse is formulating a nursing care plan for a postpartum client. Which actions by the nurse indicate use of critical thinking skills when formulating the care plan? (Select all that

21. The nurse is teaching a group of nursing students about behaviors that can block or open lines