Exam 2: Neonatal

A senior staff nurse takes the pulse of 6 months old sleeping child during her routine monitoring of vitals, what is the normal range of pulse rate/minute of 6 months old healthy sleeping child?

What drugs can be used for a baby who is suffering from Apnea?

A 4 week old child is brought to hospital by his mother after he started vomiting whatever he eats. After vomiting he becomes hungry. Vomiting is projectile in nature and contains the food particles. On examination a palpable mass is felt in upper abdomen and signs of dehydration are present. Which of the following diagnostic modalities will most likely help to confirm the diagnosis?

Baby Daniel us 36 hours old and has been brought into the Emergency Department with a temperature of 97.0 F. What immediate action should triage nurse?

What must NICU RN be cautious of when dispensing medications?

A 6 year old girl is brought to emergency department after having a deep stab wound on left side of her lower abdomen. On her neurological examination she has left leg paralysis and loss of pain and thermal sensation of right leg and right lower abdomen below injury. Which of following is most likely diagnosis?

What is the best prevention nurses working in the neonatal can use at the beginning of the shift?

Baby Ron is Hypokalemic. What signs will he display?

A nurse is caring for a newborn infant with spina bifida (meningomyelocele type) who is scheduled for surgical closure of the sac. In the preoperative period, the priority nursing action would be to monitor the:

A nurse develops a plan of care for a child at risk for generalized tonic-clonic seizures. In the plan of care, the nurse initiates seizure precautions and documents that which items need to be placed at child's bedside?

Basically there are three areas of congenital heart disease that the nurse must be concerned with. One of these causes central cyanosis. Which of these would it be?

In the disease Galactosemia, what products must a neonate NOT receive?

Vitamin K (AquamMEPHYTON) is prescribed for a neonate. A nurse prepares the medication and selects which muscle site to administer the medication?

Baby Allan has just been born and Nurse Wayne is checking him for appropriate sensory behavior. Which finding is true about baby Allan's sensory behaviors at birth?

A neonatal nurse has a 2 month old patient and she must ensure monitoring of Hemodynamic monitoring, pulmonary pressure, and right, left venous pressure included in the monitoring will be the heart rate, any contractibility and arrhythmias. Along with there will be other various presentations to watch for as well. What is the most likely reason for this intensive type of monitoring from the following choices?

Baby Tammy develops Tacycardia due to pain. What are other physiological responses that are a response to the heart?

Baby Ryan after being admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit for prematurity is discharged 1 week later. However, he returns to the neonatal intensive care unit and is diagnosed with inborn metabolism. What are some of the clinical symptom(s) of inborn metabolism?

What are important sign for the students to recognize as a positive Ortoloni's sign on baby George?

The mother of a newborn diagnosed with strabismus was told by the physician that surgery will be necessary to realign the weakened eye muscles. The nurse was asked by the mother if when the surgery might be performed. The most appropriate response is to tell the mother that surgery will be performed:

After baby Dawn's mother visits, the neonatal nurse finds her in animal print cotton blanket and cyanotic. What should she do?