Study Guide for Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women’s Health Nursing pdf download

PART I:  FOUNDATIONS FOR NURSING CARE OF THE CHILDBEARING FAMILIES 1. Maternity and Women’s Health Care Today 2. Social, Ethical and Legal Issues 3. Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology 4. Hereditary and Environmental Influences on Childbearing

PART II: THE FAMILY BEFORE BIRTH 5. Conception and Prenatal Development 6. Maternal Adaptations to Pregnancy 7. Antepartum Assessment, Care and Education 8. Nutrition for Childbearing 9. Assessing the Fetus: Prenatal Screening and Diagnostic Testing and Antepartum Fetal Testing 10. Complications of Pregnancy 11. The Childbearing Family with Special Needs

PART III: THE FAMILY DURING BIRTH 12. Processes of Birth 13. Pain management during Childbirth 14. Intrapartum Fetal Surveillance 15. Nursing Care During Labor and Birth 16. Intrapartum Complications

PART IV: THE FAMILY FOLLOWING BIRTH 17. Postpartum Adaptations and Nursing Care 18. Postpartum Maternal Complications 19. Normal Newborn: Processes of Adaptation 20. Assessment of the Normal Newborn 21. Care of the Normal Newborn 22. Infant Feeding 23. High-Risk Newborn: Complications Associated with Gestational Age and Development 24. High-Risk Newborn: Acquired and Congenital Conditions

PART VI: WOMEN’S HEALTH CARE 25. Family Planning 26. Infertility 27. Women’s Health

Answers to Selected Questions

Foundations of Maternal-Newborn

Sharon Smith Murray, MSN
Professor Emerita, Health Professions
Golden West College
Huntington Beach, California
Emily Slone McKinney, MSN, RN, C
(deceased)
Nurse Educator and Consultant
Dallas, Texas
Karen Shaw Holub, MS, RNC-OB
Assistant Clinical Professor
Baylor University
Louise Herrington School of Nursing
Dallas, Texas
Renee Jones, DNP, RNC-OB, WHNP-BC
Assistant Clinical Professor
Baylor University
Louise Herrington School of Nursing
Dallas, Texas

LEARNING ACTIVITIES
۱٫ Match each term with its definition (a—j).
_ Agonist
Analgesia
Anesthesia
Antagonist
_ Cleansing breath
_ Endorphin
Habituation
_ Paced breathing
Sellick maneuver
_ Closed-glottis pushing
a.
b.
j.
Blocking effect of a drug
Holding the breath while pushing against a closed glottis
. Reduced effectiveness of a pain management method after prolonged use
Loss of sensation, with or without loss of consciousness
. Blocking the esophagus by pressing the trachea against it
Deep breath taken at the beginning and end of each contraction
Relief of pain without loss of consciousness
. Causing a physiologic effect
Natural substance similar to morphine
Learned breathing techniques used during labor
۲٫ What factors can influence a woman’s pain tolerance during labor, positively or negatively?