Newborn Care Assessment Quiz

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Newborn Care Assessment Quiz

Test your knowledge and skills in newborn care with our comprehensive quiz designed for healthcare professionals and students alike. This quiz covers critical topics such as hyperbilirubinemia, respiratory distress, and complications related to prematurity.

Key Highlights:

22 carefully curated questions
Multiple choice and checkbox formats
Focus on clinical scenarios and nursing interventions

22 Questions6 MinutesCreated by CaringNurse247

The nurse goes to do a newborn assessment on a baby that was born at 37 weeks. What signs does the nurse associate with hyperbilirubinemia? Select all that apply

The nurse is caring for a newborn who was born to a diabetic mother. What nursing management should the nurse implement to prevent complications? Select all that apply

A nurse in the NICU is taking care of a female neonate that weighs 2300gm, what assessment finding should require further evaluation? Respiratory rate of 40bpm

Respiratory rate of 40bpm

Acrocyanosis

Blood glucose of 32

Scant bloody discharge

The nurse is reviewing the lab values of a full-term infant born from a diabetic mother.  Which lab value requires immediate intervention?

Magnesium 1.3 mg/dl

Blood glucose 50 mg/dl

Hematocrit 61%

Bilirubin 3 mg/d

What treatment(s) should the nurse anticipate for a newborn with meconium aspiration? Select all that apply

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)

Clean the newborn with antiseptic wash

Place the newborn under a radiant warmer or isolette

Administer antibiotics

Increase newborn stimulation 

A postpartum nurse is providing instructions to the mother of a newborn infant with hyperbilirubinemia who is being breastfed. Which of the following instructions should the nurse include?

Switch to bottle feeding the baby for 2 weeks

Stop the breast feedings and switch to bottle-feeding permanently

Feed the newborn infant less frequently

Continue to breast-feed every 2-4 hours

A nurse is caring for a female patient that is trying to conceive. She is complaining of thin watery cervical mucus, spinnbarkeit, increase in basal body temperature, and mittelschmerz pain. What would be the best way to explain why these symptoms are occurring?

This means that you are about to start your menstrual cycle. Your peak time to conceive will be within the next 13 days.

These can be symptoms from your body withdrawing from hormonal birth control pills

These are symptoms of ovulation. The best time to conceive is within the 24 hours of these symptoms occurring.

These are symptoms of endometritis, you need to start taking clindamycin immediately.

A woman is taking oral contraceptives. What signs and symptoms should she report to her Health Care Provider? Select All that Apply

A student nurse is caring for a neonate undergoing intensive phototherapy. Which action indicates that the student understands how to provide care for an infant undergoing intensive phototherapy?

Assess temperature every 6 hours 

Strictly monitor I&O 

Remove eye coverings to keep the baby calm 

Remove the infant from the isolette for diaper changes

You are managing care of a newborn recently diagnosed with persistent pulmonary hypertension. What nursing intervention(s) should the nurse include? Select all that apply

Provide immediate resuscitation

Provide mechanical ventilation 

Do nothing. This a normal occurrence 

Start IV fluids 

Notify the healthcare provider

Communicate with the parents honestly and clearly 

A 24 week gestation, G4 P3 woman with a history of substance abuse and is a chronic smoker, delivered 2 hours ago.  The newborn presents with T=96.8, RR 50, O2 Sat 91, P 130.  What are the significant clinical risk

A newborn baby is diagnosed with necrotizing enterocolitis and the mother wants more information about the condition. Which response from the nurse provides proper teaching?

�Your baby has an inflamed bowel and will need treatment to prevent long term effects.” 

�Bloody stools are normal for newborns and will not need treatment.

�We highly discourage interacting with your baby at this time.”

Your baby will still be able to tolerate feedings well.”

Upon assessment of and SGA baby that is asymmetrical, What does the baby look like, at risk for, and should be intervened with?

The head is normal and bigger in proportion to body

The head is small and equal to body proportion

Risk for hypoglycemia

Risk for Hyperthermia

Risk for tachycardia

Postpone feedings

Place baby under radiant warmer

Body is smaller in proportion to head

Newborn has failed to sustain adequate respiration after birth, leading to hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE).  What would be the next appropriate action? 

Start IV Flush

Trach suction

Dry immediately and begin resuscitation

Gavage feeding

A newborn infant was presented with yellowing of the skin and sclera with labs revealing that the infant’s bilirubin level is 6.2 mg/dl. The health care provider has ordered phototherapy. What intervention(s) should the nurse provide for the newborn undergoing phototherapy? Select all that apply

A nurse is assigned to five patients in L&D, which of the five mothers are at increased risk of giving birth to a baby that is small for gestational age? Select all that apply

A mother with uncontrolled diabetes

A mother with untreated chlamydia 

A mother with oligohydramnios

A mother with ETOH and cocaine abuse

A mother who delivering at 42 weeks gestation

The nurse is taking care of a 38 week gestation, 4200g baby NICU, born 1 hour ago. The nurse knows that this baby is at greatest risk for?

Hypobilirubinemia

Hypothermia

Hypoglycemia

Scaphoid chest

A neonate born via C-section presented with cyanosis, grunting, nasal flaring and retraction of the chest. After treatment via CPAP the baby was safely discharged on the third day. What diagnosis do you suspect this baby had?

Failure to thrive

Respiratory distress syndrome

Transient Tachypnea of the newborn

Asphyxia

A baby girl is born via forceps at delivery. The nurse knows that the baby is at risk for which complication(s) as a result of head trauma from the delivery? Select all that apply 

A mother has just delivered her new born baby at 40 weeks gestation. When delivered, the nurse notices that the baby has greenish brown stains on its fingernails and skin. What are the possible risk(s) that the nurse can associate with this complication? Select all that apply

A mother baby nurse is reporting to her shift and 4 mothers have recently delivered. Which baby should the nurse attend to first? 

A. 36 week old baby who is 2200 grams and using accessory muscles to breathe

B. 38 week old baby who is born at 6lbs and 2 oz. With a BG of 52 

C. 39 week old baby who is 3500 grams and body is pink but extremities are blue 

40 week old baby who is 4100 grams but has an Apgar score of 8 

A mom has recently delivered a baby at 33 weeks. The nurse assesses the mom and baby in postpartum and notices the baby is not feeding well. The baby is experiencing abdominal distention with bloody stools. The nurse suspects necrotizing enterocolitis. What predisposing factor(s) in the mother’s history would be indicative of this condition? Select all that apply

Preeclampsia

Preterm Labor 

Prior low transverse C-section

History of spontaneous abortion

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