Maternity Nursing Review Quiz 15 Item

Maternity Nursing is a nursing care provided to women and their families during pregnancy and parturition and through the first days of the puerperium. Increasingly postpartum maternity nursing includes the supervision of the mothers’ care of their newborns in rooming-in units and may include care of normal newborns in a nursery when they are not with their mother. Maternity nursing includes extensive instruction of mothers in the usual behavior and needs of a newborn, in expected patterns of growth and development of the infant during the first week, and in details of care needed by the mother during the first weeks after birth.


Topics or concepts included in this exam are:

Postpartum period
Lochia
Theories about postpartum
Newborn care
Newborn screening
APGAR
Family Planning Methods