Maternity & Pediatric Test Banks

Yes, in the intrapartum chapters. Expect questions on baseline rate, variability, accelerations and the different types of decelerations, along with the nursing actions each pattern calls for. Monitoring also comes up in chapters on labor complications, so the same concepts are tested from more than one angle.

Age changes the right answer. Pediatric questions expect you to factor in developmental stage, from how you explain a procedure to a toddler versus a teenager to which fears are typical at each age. They also test that children can compensate and then decline quickly. Weight-based medication safety and family-centered care run through most chapters.

Yes. Maternity textbooks give complications their own chapters, and the banks follow them: hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, gestational diabetes, bleeding in pregnancy, preterm labor, postpartum hemorrhage and infection, and newborn problems such as jaundice and respiratory distress. These chapters focus on recognizing early warning signs and choosing the priority action.

A few are. Burns' Pediatric Primary Care, 7th edition, is a pediatric NP text, and CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment: Pediatrics, 24th edition, is a physician reference. Pre-licensure students usually need a maternal-newborn or child health nursing title instead, such as Ricci, Durham or Ball, so go by the book named on your syllabus.