ATI RN
Ethical Issues in Maternity Care Questions
Question 1 of 5
What information should the nurse be aware of regarding telephonic nursing care such as warm lines?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 2 of 5
Which statement accurately describes the walking survey as a data collection tool?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 3 of 5
A client who is gravida 2 and 16 weeks of gestation comes in for her prenatal appointment. Her 2-year-old daughter is with her and is wearing a sleeveless top. While interacting with her daughter, you note axillary freckling and several café-au-lait spots (>2 cm). In reviewing her chart, the nurse should assess for documentation of which genetic disease?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Clinical manifestations of NF may include axillary freckling and café-au-lait spots. Tay-Sachs disease is an incurable lipid-storage disorder and is not associated with café-au-lait spots. Galactosemia is an inborn error of metabolism and is also not associated with café-au-lait spots. PKU is not associated with café-au-lait spots. A child with PKU would have difficulty manufacturing the liver enzyme phenylalanine.
Question 4 of 5
A 32-year-old woman is pregnant for the third time. One child was born with cystic fibrosis, and the other child is healthy. The client and her husband wonder what chance this child has of having cystic fibrosis. This type of testing is most commonly known as what?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: The couple already has a child with a genetic disease; therefore, this couple will be given a recurrence risk test. If a couple has not yet had a child but is known to be at risk for having a child with a genetic disease, then an occurrence risk test is administerePredictive testing clarifies the genetic status of an asymptomatic family member. Predisposition testing differs from presymptomatic testing in that a positive result does not indicate 100% risk of a condition developing.
Question 5 of 5
Nurses who elect to practice in the field of obstetrics must have a basic working knowledge of genetics. What is the correct term used to describe an individual's genetic makeup?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: The genotype comprises all the genes the individual can pass on to a future generation. The phenotype is the observable expression of an individual's genotype. The karyotype is a pictorial analysis of the number, form, and size of an individual's chromosomes. Genotype refers to an individual's genetic makeup.