Learn Maternal and Newborn Nursing: 77 NCLEX Flashcards from Gravida-Para to the Apgar Score

Deck KG3413 — NCLEX: Maternal & Pediatric Nursing — is 77 cards, and it is the rare NCLEX deck in the Flip It library that teaches nursing content instead of facts about the exam. Two caveats before you start: the pediatric half of the title barely exists, and the paediatrics that is there is really neonatal. Cards 1–31 cover pregnancy and its complications, 32–45 labour, 46–60 the newborn, 61–70 postpartum, 71–77 a short newborn-care tail. Treat it as a maternal-newborn deck and it is excellent.

Ten cards from the deck

Everything the 77 cards cover

Gravida and para, presumptive/probable/positive signs, hCG doubling, quickening at 16–20 weeks, placental function, the two-artery one-vein umbilical cord, amniotic fluid, trimester discomforts, gestational diabetes, preeclampsia and eclampsia, HELLP, placenta previa, abruptio placentae, ectopic pregnancy, the four abortion types (threatened, inevitable, complete, incomplete), the four stages of labour, latent/active/transition phases, effacement, dilation, station, crowning, episiotomy, Apgar scoring bands, vernix caseosa, lanugo, newborn vitals, physiologic versus pathologic jaundice, phototherapy, the rooting, Moro, Babinski, sucking and grasp reflexes, lochia, involution, mastitis, postpartum hemorrhage, uterine atony, baby blues versus postpartum depression versus postpartum psychosis, neonatal abstinence syndrome, signs of respiratory distress, kangaroo care.

Two things to fix before test day

Write the missing intervention cards. The deck is strong on recognition and thin on what the nurse actually does — exactly where NCLEX items live. It defines preeclampsia and eclampsia but never mentions magnesium sulfate or its antidote calcium gluconate. It names late decelerations nowhere, so VEAL CHOP never appears. Rh incompatibility and RhoGAM, group B strep prophylaxis, and the indications for a cesarean are all absent. Six or seven self-written cards close the biggest gap in the deck.

Build one vital-signs table instead of three cards. Cards 10, 51, 71 and 72 give a fetal heart rate of 110–160, a newborn rate of 120–160 and an infant rate of 100–160, with the respiratory rate of 30–60 repeated twice. Reviewed separately they blur into each other. On one sheet — fetus, newborn, infant — the ranges make sense as a progression, and card 72 becomes a duplicate you can suspend.

How to run it

Study by block, not shuffled, because the terminology is cumulative: quickening and station mean nothing before gravida and para. Do cards 1–31 until the complication contrasts are automatic (previa versus abruption, preeclampsia versus eclampsia versus HELLP, the four abortion types are the three discriminations examiners love), then move on. The reflex cards and the Apgar components reward being said out loud with the gesture attached.

Deck KG3413, NCLEX: Maternal & Pediatric Nursing, 77 cards, is in the Flip It library. For the exam itself rather than the content, see NCLEX Exam Facts: Format, Cost, Scoring and Blueprint in 78 Flashcards and NCLEX Study Guide: 191 Flashcards on Adaptive Testing, Client Needs and the Next Generation Exam.

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