Exam 1: Current Issues in Maternal-Newborn Nursing

The maternal-newborn nurse reviewing charts recognizes that negligence occurs when there is:

The nurse manager is planning a presentation on ethical issues in caring for childbearing families. Which example should the nurse manager include to illustrate maternal-fetal conflict?

The nurse researcher will use descriptive statistics for a research project that has been assigned. A characteristic of descriptive statistics is that:

The nurse is serving on a panel to evaluate the hospital staff's reliance on evidence-based practice in their decision-making processes. Which practices characterize the basic competencies related to evidence-based practice?

The recently graduated nurse recognizes that standards provide information and guidelines for:

A nursing student investigating potential career goals is strongly considering becoming a nurse practitioner (NP). The major focus of the NP is on:

In order to combat the impersonal nature of technology that sometimes interferes with family-focused care, the nurse should take which actions?

The nursing instructor explains to the class that according to the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, abortion is legal if induced:

The nurse reviewing charts for quality improvement notes that a patient experienced a complication during labor. The nurse is uncertain whether the labor nurse took the appropriate action during the situation. What is the best method for the nurse to take to determine what the appropriate action should have been?

The nurse is reviewing the files of the expectant families scheduled to be seen in the clinic today. Which family might find cord-blood banking to be especially useful?

The nurse is telling a new patient how technology used in maternal-newborn care has changed the way the nurse cares for her patients. An example of this is:

Several student nurses are discussing advanced practice, and know that the term advanced practice nurse includes nurses who are:

The nurse at an elementary school is performing TB screenings on all of the students. Permission slips were returned for all but the children of one family. When the nurse phones to obtain permission, the parent states in clearly understandable English that permission cannot be given because the grandmother is out of town for 2 more weeks. Which cultural element is contributing to the dilemma that faces the nurse?

While a child is being admitting to the hospital, the parent receives information about the pediatric unit's goals, including the statement that the unit practices family-centered care. The parent asks why that is important. The nurse responds that in the family-centered care paradigm, the:

As a clinician, the nurse must meet what basic competencies related to evidence-based practice?

For prenatal care, the patient is attending a clinic held in a church basement. The patient's care is provided by registered nurses and a certified nurse-midwife. This type of prenatal care is an example of:

A maternity patient is in need of surgery. The healthcare member who is legally responsible for obtaining informed consent for an invasive procedure is:

Despite the availability of Children's Health Insurance Programs (CHIPs), the nurse in a pediatric clinic knows that many eligible children are not enrolled. The nursing intervention that can best help eligible children become enrolled is:

The nurse working in a community clinic is aware that differences in beliefs between families and healthcare providers are common in which areas?

The nurse is explaining the difference between descriptive statistics and inferential statistics to a group of student nurses. To illustrate descriptive statistics, the nurses uses as an example: