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Self-Test Lesson 6 Exercises |
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INSTRUCTIONS: Answer the following exercises by marking the lettered response that best answers the exercise, by completing the incomplete statement, or by writing the answer in the space(s) provided. After you have completed all of these exercises, turn to "Solutions to Exercises" at the end of the lesson and check your answers. For each exercise answered incorrectly, reread the material referenced with the solution. 1. The _____________________ is known as the first six weeks after delivery of a baby. 2. Afterpains are intensified by _____________________________ .. 3. List the three types of lochia flow in order of occurrence.
4. ______________________________ helps to conserve body fluids. 5. The hormones that stimulated breast development during pregnancy decreases promptly after delivery. What determines, in part, the time it takes for these hormones to return to the prepregnancy levels?
6. What is so unique about lochia flow as compared to normal menstrual flow?
7. Why does a mother's hemocrit drop after delivery of a baby?
8. When milk causes a fullness and tenderness to the breasts it is known as:
9. What measures should the mother take to suppress her breast milk?
10. When does bonding and attachment of a newborn take place for the parents?
11. What are the nursing care responsibilities for postpartal blues patients?
12. Following delivery of a newborn, several maternal adaptations take place. Write the adaption described in each of the followng.
13. Considerable time should be spent with single mothers.
14. The ____________________________________________ is the postpartal period/time of delivery to the four to six week stabilization point. 15. What are the three main causes of postpartal hemorrhage after bladder distention is ruled out?
16. List the possible causes of perineal lacerations.
17. Severe, sharp perineal pain, swelling in the perineal wall, and complaint of fullness or pressure in the vagina are signs and symptoms of:
18. What are the medical treatments for hematomas?
19. When the nurse provides grieving parents with a lock of the infant's hair, she is providing the parents with a collection of:
20. List the possible factors that may lead to postpartal psychosis.
21. _______________________________________ delivery requires the same postsurgical care as any other abdominal surgical patient? 22. Organisms recognized as common causative agents for puerperal infections and normally seen in the lower bowel and lower genital tract are:
For exercises 23 through 32. Match the phrases in Column A with the correct term or statement as listed in Column B. Place the letter of the correct answer in the space provided to the left of Column A.
Check Your Answers 1. Postpartum period. (para 6-1) 2. Breast-feeding. (para 6-2a(2)) 3. Lochia rubra.
4. Amenorrhea. (para 6-5) 5. Whether the mother breast-feds her baby. (para 6-6) 6. Lochia clots whereas normal menstruation flow does not. (para 6-2b(3)) 7. Due to blood loss during actual delivery. (para 6-3b) 8. Engorgement. (para 6-6c(1)) 9. Not allow the infant to suck.
10. First three to four days of postpartum. (para 6-7) 11. Recognize and interpret mother's behavior as an individual.
12. Positive bonding and taking hold.
13. a (para 6-11b) 14. Restorative period of maternal behavior. (para 6-8) 15. Uterine atony.
16. Rapid decent of the fetus.
17. Vulvar hematoma. (paras 6-13b(1), (3), (6)) 18. Analgesics for discomfort.
Opening the hematoma so blood clots can be evacuated and the bleeders can be ligated. (para 6-13c) 19. Concrete memories. (para 6-20b(7)) 20. Birth experience itself.
21. Cesarean section. (para 6-18a) 22. Anaerobic staphylococci.
23. i (para 6-12) 24. j (para 6-13) 25. h (para 6-12b(1)) 26. d (para 6-19a(5)) 27. f (para 6-16b) 28. g (para 6-15f) 29. c (para 6-14b) 30. a (para 6-17) 31. b (para 6-16a) 32. e (para 6-12c) End of Lesson 5
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