Maternity & obstetric nursing worksheet with answers

Taking folic acid before conception and in early pregnancy mainly reduces the risk of:

1. AGestational diabetes
2. BPostpartum haemorrhage
3. CNeural tube defects
4. DPre-eclampsia

A pregnancy that continues to 42 weeks or more is called:

1. AFull term
2. BEarly term
3. CPost-term
4. DLate preterm

What is Goodell's sign?

1. AA bluish colour of the cervix
2. BFetal movements felt by the examiner
3. CSoftening of the cervix
4. DSoftening of the lower uterine segment

Why is a baby of a mother with poorly controlled diabetes often large?

1. AFetal hyperinsulinaemia acts as a growth hormone
2. BThe mother's insulin crosses the placenta
3. CDiabetes always prolongs the pregnancy
4. DThe baby inherits a gene for large size

In fetal circulation, what is the function of the foramen ovale?

1. AIt shunts blood from the right atrium to the left atrium
2. BIt carries blood from the pulmonary artery to the aorta
3. CIt carries blood from the aorta back to the placenta
4. DIt lets blood from the umbilical vein bypass the liver

A woman receiving an oxytocin infusion for many hours has a headache, confusion and very little urine. Which complication is suspected?

1. AWater intoxication
2. BHypoglycaemia
3. CSpinal headache
4. DMagnesium toxicity

At 7 weeks of pregnancy, a woman reports sudden severe pain on one side of the lower abdomen, pain in the shoulder tip and dizziness. What should the nurse suspect?

1. ABraxton Hicks contractions
2. BHyperemesis gravidarum
3. CNormal round ligament pain caused by the growing uterus
4. DA ruptured ectopic pregnancy with internal bleeding

A woman in labour has a breech presentation and her membranes rupture. What should the nurse check first?

1. AHer blood glucose level
2. BThe baby's sex on ultrasound
3. CThe colour of her urine
4. DThe fetal heart rate and for cord prolapse