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The nurse's role in diagnostic testing is to provide which of the following?
 
  a. Advice to the couple
  b. Information about the tests
  c. Reassurance about fetal safety
  d. Assistance with decision making

Question 2

When is the earliest that chorionic villus sampling can be performed during pregnancy?
 
  a. 4 weeks
  b. 8 weeks
  c. 10 weeks
  d. 12 weeks



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
The nurse should provide the couple with all necessary information about a procedure so that the couple can make an informed decision. The nurse's role is to inform, not to advise. Ensuring fetal safety is not possible with all the diagnostic tests. To offer this is to give false reassurance to the parents. The nurse can inform the couple about potential problems so they can make an informed decision. Decision making should always lie with the couple involved. The nurse should provide information so that the couple can make an informed decision.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C
Fetal villus tissue can be obtained as early as 10 weeks of gestation and can be analyzed directly for chromosomal or genetic abnormalities. It is too early to be performed at 4 weeks. It is too early to be performed at 8 weeks. The test should be performed at 12 weeks, but it can be done as early as 10 weeks.



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