Chapter 1

The 2 areas in which are a major focus of the nursing practice in
promoting health for the next generation.

True or False: childbearing and childrearing are two separate entities that are NOT interrelated
True False

What is the primary goal of both maternal and child health nursing?

Give 5 scopes of practice included in MCN?

PHL of MCN? Maternal and child health nursing is?

Give the target ratio of the global maternal mortality rate that should be reduced by 2030

2030 Global Health Goals: end preventable deaths of newborn and children under what age range?

2030 Global Health Goals: ensure universal access to what healthcare service?

A credential furnished by the American Nurses Credentialing Center
(ANCC), an affiliate of the American Nurses Association, to hospitals that meet a
rigorous set of criteria designed to improve the strength and quality of nursing care.

Identify the category magnet status: This is the ability of nurses in the designated organization to convert their organization’s values, beliefs, and behaviors in
order to create a high professional level of nursing care.

Identify the category magnet status: This refers to the ability to provide an innovative
environment where strong professional practice can flourish with regard to the
hospital’s mission, vision, and values.

Identify the category magnet status: The setting demonstrates a comprehensive
understanding of the role of nursing; the application of that role with patients,
families, communities, and the interdisciplinary team is clear, so new knowledge
and evidence can be applied to nursing care.

Identify the category magnet status: The organization demonstrates
strong nursing leadership, empowered professionals, and exemplary practice
while contributing to patient care.

Identify the category magnet status: The hospital demonstrates solid structure and processes
where strong professional practice can flourish and where the mission, vision,
and values come to life as the organization achieves the outcomes believed to be
important for the organization

What are the 4 phases of health care?

Phase of HC: Educating parents and children
to follow sound health
practices through teaching and
role modeling

Phase of HC: Intervening to maintain health
when risk of illness is present

Phase of HC: Using conscientious assessment
to be certain that symptoms of
illness are identified and
interventions are begun to
return patient to wellness most
rapidly

Phase of HC: Helping prevent complications
from illness

Phase of HC: helping a patient
with residual effects achieve
an optimal state of wellness
and independence

Phase of HC: helping a
patient to accept inevitable
death

_____________ theory
stresses that an important role of the nurse is to help patients adapt to change caused by
illness or other stressors

________________ theory concentrates on
examining patients’ ability to perform self-care

_______________theory describes the way nurses move from novice to expert as they become
more experienced and prepared to give interprofessional care

KSA meaning?

What is QSEN?

What are the 5 competencies of QSEN?

is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use
of current best evidence to make decisions about the care of patient

the systematic investigation of problems that have implications for
nursing practice usually carried out by nurses

A nursing assistant informed the nurse that Mr. Chung asked why the hospital where
his baby is being cared for is termed a “Magnet hospital.” The nurse would want team
members to know which rationale?
A. Magnet hospitals are those who care for the most acutely ill patients.
B. The hospital has met high standards for nursing competency.
C. The designation is one assigned by the American Medical Association.
D. The term refers to hospitals that only admit a limited number of patients

The ratio of the num. of TOTAL LIVE BIRTHS / TOTAL POPULATION; Expressed as births per 1,000

The number of pregnancies per1K biological women of childbearing age

Ratio of the number of fetal deaths (over 500g) per 1K live births

At what age/range is a baby included/ considered as a fetal death rate

The number of deaths / 1k live births
(deaths occurring during birth or after 28 days)

What range is the perinatal time period?

The sum of fetal and neonatal death rates

The number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births that
occur as a direct result of the reproductive process.

The number of deaths per 1,000 live births occurring at birth or
in the first 12 months of life.

The number of deaths per 1,000 population in children
aged 1 to 14 years.

INFORMATICS
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Mrs. Chung’s doctor has told her that her baby’s most dangerous time will be until
the perinatal period ends. When does the perinatal period take place?

A. Until the infant’s body temperature stabilizes following birth
B. During the time the infant will be on ventilator support
C. From the 20th week of pregnancy to 4 to 6 weeks after birth
D. From the day of birth until 1 month afterward

Nurses must always be aware of quality improvement because as society changes
with new situations, nursing care must make responding adjustments. Which of the
following is a trend that will influence the care that the Chung family’s new baby is
likely to receive?

a. More and more children are treated in ambulatory, not hospital, settings so
nurses will be less significant in the future.
b. Immunizations are available for all childhood infectious diseases so the
Chungs’ baby will never need treatment for these.
c. The use of multiple technologies can make parents feel overwhelmed unless
they receive nursing support.
d. Prematurely born infants, assuming their mother received prenatal care, rarely
need long-term or follow-up care.

term that refers to therapy such as acupuncture,
homeopathy, therapeutic touch, herbalism, and chiropractic care, or nontraditional
sources of care such as tribal medicine

Name 5 alternative health practices

a nursing note written today may
need to be defended as many as how many years into the future

True or False: “emancipated minors” or “mature minors” and have the
right to sign for their own health care
True False

is the birth of a disabled child whose pregnancy the
parents would have chosen to end if they had been informed about the disability during
pregnancy.

a claim that negligent prenatal testing on the part of a
healthcare provider resulted in the birth of a disabled child

PATIENT-CENTERED CARE
Melissa Chung is concerned as to how she will give consent for procedures for her
newborn baby because the baby is hospitalized so far away. Which statement would
be best to reassure her?

a. “Informed consent is not needed for newborn care as newborns are underage.”

b. “Newborn care requires parental consent only for procedures that will involve
pain.”

c. “Healthcare providers can omit informed consent if the parent is not present
with the child.”

d. “Consent is required: you can be contacted by telephone or e-mail for long
distance consultation.”