HESI PN MATERNAL NEWBORN PROCTORED EXAM

HESI PN MATERNAL NEWBORN PROCTORED EXAM

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- Acrocyanosis: bluish color of hands and feed

• Acupressure: treatment method that involves massage of points along body’s energy

pathways

• Acupuncture: treatment that involves therapeutic stimulation along body’s energy

pathways with needles

• Apgar scoring: assignment of numbers to an assessment of a newborn @ 1 and 5 minutes

after birth

- Areola: pigmented tissue around the nipple

• Asphyxia: inadequate O2 that causes unconsciousness, without intervention, death

- Atony: lack of muscle tone

- Bilirubin: yellow or orange product of the breakdown of hemoglobin

• Braxton-hicks contraction: painless, ineffective uterine contractions that occur during late

pregnancy

- Cervix: low narrow end of the uterus that contains opening

- Circumcision: surgical removal of the foreskin of the penis

- Colostrum: white to yellowish fluid that precedes breast milk

- Counterpressure: application of pressure to the sacrum during contractions

- Cradle cap: infant scalp dermatitis manifesting as THINK YELLOWISH scales

• Cyanosis: blue discoloration of skin or mucous membranes due to excessive concentration

of deoxyhemoglobin in blood

- Dilation: stretching of the opening of the cervix to accommodate childbirth

• Ecchymosis: hemorrhagic spot, or bruise, caused by bleeding under the skin and irregularly

formed in blue, purple, or brown patches

- Edema: accumulation of excess fluid

- Effacement: thinning and shortening of cervix in preparation for childbirth

• Effleurage: light massage or stroking, usually on patient’s abdomen, in rhythm with

breathing during contractions

• Engagement: entrance of fetal presenting part into the upper pelvic channel or birth canal

- Fetus: unborn child still inside uterus

- Fetoscope: stethoscope for listening to fetal heart tones

- Friable: easily broken

- Fundus: rounded upper portion of the uterus

• Hematoma: localized collection of blood underneath tissues, appearing as a swelling mass

often characterized by bluish discoloration

• Hyperemesis gravidarum: COMPLICATION of pregnancy that involves excessive vomiting,

electrolyte imbalances, weight loss, nutritional deficits, and ketonuria

- Hyperglycemia: ELEVATED blood glucose

- Hyperventilation: excessively rapid or deep breathing

- Hypoglycemia: LOW blood glucose

- Lanugo: fine, downy hair on the fetus after 20 weeks of gestation

• Leopold maneuvers: series of 4 types of abdominal palpation for determining fetal position
• Letdown reflex: release of breastmilk in response to oxytocin, “milk ejection reflex”
• Lightening: descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity about 2 weeks before term labor
• Meconium: odorless, green-tinged, black sticky initial stools of a newborn
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