Maternal Newborn Nursing Exam: Terms and Definitions, Exams of Nursing

Download Maternal Newborn Nursing Exam: Terms and Definitions and more Exams Nursing in PDF only on Docsity! Maternal Newborn Nursing Examination Questions and Answers Acceleration - Correct answer periodic increases in the baseline fetal heart rate AGA - Correct answer appropriate for gestational age Antepartum - Correct answer time between conception and the onset of labor, usually used to describe the period during which a women is pregnant Apgar score - Correct answer A scoring system used to evaluate newborns at 1 and 5 minute after birth. The total score is achieved by assessing five signs; heart rate, respiratory effort, muscle tone, reflex irritability, and color. Each of the signs is assigned a score of 0,1,2 the highest possible score is 10 Antony - Correct answer lack of normal tone or strength, flaccidity BPP - Correct answer Biophysical profile; assessment of five variables in the fetus that help to evaluate fetal risk: breathing movement, body movement, tone, amniotic fluid volume, fetal heart rate reactivity BUBBLE-HE - Correct answer Breasts, uterus, bladder, bowel, lochia, episiotomy/laceration, humans sign/hemorrhoids, emotional; postpartum assessment C/S - Correct answer cesarean section, birth of fetus accomplished by performing cervical ripening - Correct answer softening of the cervix, occurs normally as a physiologic process before labor or is stimulated to occur through process of induction of labor Deceleration - Correct answer periodic decrease in the baseline fetal heart rate EDC/EDD - Correct answer estimated date of delivery/confinement EFM - Correct answer electronic fetal monitoring; a method of placing a fetal EGA - Correct answer estimated gestational age Episiotomy - Correct answer incision of the perineum to facilitate birth and to avoid laceration of the perineum FHTs - Correct answer fetal heart sounds Forceps - Correct answer obstetric instrument occasionally used to aid in childbirth FSE - Correct answer fetal scalp electrode Gravid - Correct answer # of pregnancy, any pregnancy, regardless of duration, including present pregnancy IFE - Correct answer internal fetal electrode Intrapartum - Correct answer the time from the onset of true labor until the birth of the infant and expulsion of the placenta IOL - Correct answer Induction of labor IUFD - Correct answer intrauterine fetal demise IUGR - Correct answer Intrauterine growth restriction: fetal undergrowth due to any etiology, such as intrauterine infection, deficient nutrient supply, or congenital malformation. A term used to describe fetuses falling below 10th percentile in ultrasonic estimation of weight at a given gestational age IUPC - Correct answer Intrauterine pressure catheter: a catheter that can be placed through the cervix into the uterus to measure uterine pressure during labor. Some types of catheter may be inserted for the purpose of infusing warmed saline to add additional intrauterine fluid when oligohydramnios is present Involution - Correct answer rolling or turning inward, the reduction in size of the uterus following childbirth Lacerations - Correct answer the process or act of tearing tissue Late preterm pregnancy - Correct answer an infant born between 34 and 37 weeks of gestation Leopold's maneuvers - Correct answer a series of four maneuvers designed to provide a systemic approach whereby the examiner may determine fetal presentation and position Lochia - Correct answer maternal discharge of blood, mucus, and tissue from the uterus; may last for several weeks after birth Parity - Correct answer number of deliveries after 20 weeks BOW - Correct answer bag of water