ATI LPN
ATI LPN NS 122 Maternity Exam Questions
Extract:
A client 16 weeks pregnant
Question 1 of 5
The client is 16 weeks pregnant. If the pregnancy is progressing as expected, where would the healthcare provider be able to palpate the uterine fundus?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: At 16 weeks, the uterine fundus is typically palpable halfway between the symphysis pubis and the umbilicus, as the uterus grows upward from the pelvis.
Extract:
A hospitalized child
Question 2 of 5
When a child is hospitalized, which of the following would be an example of regression?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Regression is a return to earlier developmental behaviors due to stress, such as thumb-sucking in a hospitalized child. New interests, independence, or increased appetite are not regression.
Extract:
A 30-year-old primigravida, 18 weeks pregnant, feeling fluttering in her lower abdomen
Question 3 of 5
A 30-year-old primigravida who is 18 weeks pregnant, reports feeling fluttering in her lower abdomen. She states it feels like the baby is moving. This is known as:
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Quickening is the first sensation of fetal movement, typically felt between 16-20 weeks, especially in primigravidas. Ballottement is a physical exam finding, lightening occurs later when the fetus drops into the pelvis, and nesting is a pre-labor energy surge.
Extract:
A client at 39 weeks in labor, third pregnancy, early miscarriage at 8 weeks, stillborn at 36 weeks
Question 4 of 5
A client is 39 weeks in labor. This is her third pregnancy. She reports an early miscarriage at 8 weeks and a stillborn at 36 weeks. What is her GTPAL?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: GTPAL: Gravidity (3 pregnancies: current, miscarriage, stillborn), Term (0 births ≥37 weeks), Preterm (1 stillborn at 36 weeks), Abortions (1 miscarriage at 8 weeks), Living children (0, as stillborn is not counted as living). Thus, G3 T0 P1 A1 L0 is correct.
Extract:
A client at 21 weeks of gestation with an identical twin
Question 5 of 5
During a prenatal class, a client reports she has an identical twin. What is the classification of twins who share the same chromosomal material?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Identical twins, who share the same chromosomal material, are monozygotic, resulting from one fertilized egg splitting. Fraternal (dizygotic) twins come from two eggs, and trizygotic refers to triplets, not twins.