Wednesday, December 28, 2011

NCLEX Exam Practice Question of the Week - 12/28/11

Elsevier NCLEX Exam Review

Question: A nurse is collecting data during an admission assessment of a client who is pregnant with twins. The client has a healthy 5-year-old child who was delivered at 38 weeks and tells the nurse that she does not have a history of any type of abortion or fetal demise. The nurse would document the GTPAL for this client as:


1.  G = 3, T = 2, P = 0, A = 0, L = 1
2.  G = 2, T = 1, P = 0, A = 0, L = 1
3.  G = 1, T = 1, P = 1, A = 0, L = 1
4.  G = 2, T = 0, P = 0, A = 0, L = 1



Answer:2

Rationale: Pregnancy outcomes can be described with the acronym GTPAL. G is gravidity, the number of pregnancies; T is term births, the number born at term (longer than 37 weeks); P is preterm births, the number born before 37 weeks' gestation; A is abortions or miscarriages, the number of abortions or miscarriages (included in gravida if before 20 weeks' gestation; included in parity [number of births] if past 20 weeks' gestation); and L is the number of current living children. A woman who is pregnant with twins and has a child has a gravida of 2. Because the child was delivered at 38 weeks, the number of term births is 1, and the number of preterm births is 0. The number of abortions is 0, and the number of living children is 1.


Test-Taking Strategy: Focus on the data in the question. Recalling the meaning of the acronym GTPAL will direct you to option 2. If you had difficulty answering this question, review the GTPAL method of describing pregnancy outcomes.
Level of Cognitive Ability: Applying
Client Needs: Health Promotion and Maintenance
Integrated Process: Nursing Process—Assessment
Content Area:
Maternity—Antepartum
Reference: McKinney, E., James, S., Murray, S., & Ashwill, J. (2009). Maternal-child nursing (3rd ed., p. 262). St. Louis: Saunders.

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