MIDTERM QUIZ 1

Question 1

Clinical signs and symptoms of a newborn with RDS

Answer 1

Apnea
Grunting
Cyanosis

Question 2

A 42 week gestation is admitted at the Nursery Intensive Care Unit. At delivery, thick green amniotic fluid was noted . Which of the following action by the nurse is critical at this time:

Answer 2

Respiratory evaluation to monitor for RDS

Question 3

Meryl gave birth precipitously in the Emergency Room. Nurse Irish initial action should be:

Answer 3

Establish airway for the newborn

Question 4

It is a membrane from an exudate infant blood that begins to line the terminal bronchioles alveoli, alveolar ducts.

Answer 4

Hyaline

Question 5

Soon after delivery a neonate is admitted with the mother. The nurse begins the initial assessment by:

Answer 5

Inspecting respiratory effort and color

Question 6

Meconium can cause RDS by, excluding:

Answer 6

inhibiting the growth of bacteria

Question 7

It is the enlargement of the anterior diameter of the chest:

Answer 7

Barrel chest

Question 8

It is a small tunnel that develops between the end of the bowel and the skin.

Answer 8

Anal fistula

Question 9

Breastfeeding is appropriate management for physiologic jaundice.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Factors that may contribute a child for SIDS are, EXEPT:

Answer 10

non pacifier attachment

Question 11

Which condition or treatment best ensures lung maturity in a neonate:

Answer 11

Lecithin to sphingomyelin surfactant

Question 12

Fluid that is continuously produced and absorbed and that flows in the ventricles within the brain.

Answer 12

Cerebrospinal Fluid

Question 13

Which of the following action best explain the role of surfactant in the neonate?

Answer 13

Helps the lungs remain expanded after the initiation of breathing

Question 14

While assessing a AN HOUR NEONATE, nurse Joy observes the neonate to have acrocyanosis, which of the following nursing actions should be performed first:

Answer 14

Notify the physician

Question 15

To prevent meconium aspiration at the time of birth, the care should include:

Answer 15

Suction secretion right away as soon as the head delivered

Question 16

By drying and wrapping the neonate after birth in blankets , the nurse is preventing which type of heat loss:

Answer 16

Convection

Question 17

Meconium is resent in the fetal bowel as early as:

Answer 17

10 weeks

Question 18

A nurse is monitoring a preterm newborn diagnosed with RDS. Which assessment signs if noted in the newborn would alert the nurse to the possibility of this syndrome?

Answer 18

Tachypnea with period of apnea

Question 19

In Hydrocephalus protein level is:

Answer 19

Increase