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Which assessment question will best provide the nurse with an understanding of how childbirth is viewed by an African-based culture?

A) "Does your culture utilize folk healers and natural remedies to manage labor?" B)

"Can you share with me the concerns you have about your pregnancy and labor?"

C) "Will you describe for me the care you would expect to receive if you were giving

birth in your homeland?"

D) "Are you comfortable with the type of prenatal and labor care provided to all pregnant women who give birth at this hospital?"

2. Which outcome demonstrates the successful implementation of culturally congruent care for a pregnant client whose culture holds holistic health beliefs? A) The infant's father cut the umbilical cord.

The mother sipped on an herbal tea to maintain hydration during the labor.

Labor pain was successfully managed with nonpharmacologic interventions.

Family members remained with the mother and infant during the entire hospitalization.

3. Which pregnant woman would be most accepting of her baby's father being viewed as an observer during the birth process?

An American giving birth for the first time.

An Asian whose first delivery required surgical intervention.

A Hispanic whose first birth was attended to by a midwife.

A Swede whose has experienced two previous stillbirths.

4. Which outcome is a common result of unintended pregnancies?

Preterm labor

Uterine hemorrhage

Skeletal deformities

Cardiac malformations

5. Which viewpoint, regarding birth control, would be supportive of the cultural beliefs of a Mormon woman?

Mormons love children and strive for large families.

The Mormon family avoids birth control until a son is born.

Birth control is viewed as a sin by the Mormon's religious teachings.

D) Each Mormon couple has a religious responsibility to parent a large family.