Exam 14: The Newborn With a Perinatal Injury or Congenital Malformation

The nurse is providing care to a child with Down syndrome.What body system has the highest risk of congenital anomaly in a child with Down syndrome?

The home health nurse is educating parents on home phototherapy.What will the nurse include when providing information to these parents?

When bathing an infant,what sign does the nurse recognize as a sign of developmental hip dysplasia?

What occurrence results from obstruction within the ventricles of the brain or inadequate reabsorption of cerebrospinal fluid?

The nurse is caring for a macrosomic newborn of a woman diagnosed with gestational diabetes immediately after birth.What assessment findings can the nurse anticipate? (Select all that apply. )

The nurse is caring for an infant with hydrocephalus.What nursing action is most important for this nurse to implement?

A newborn was just admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit with a meningomyelocele.What is the priority preoperative nursing care of this newborn?

After delivery,a mother asks the nurse about newborn screening tests.The nurse explains that what is the optimal time for testing for phenylketonuria?

What would the nurse include when instructing parents about positioning their toddler who has just had a body spica cast applied?

The nurse is caring for an Rh-negative mother on the labor and birth unit.What scenario indicates this patient will require RhoGAM administration?

The nurse is providing education to parents of a child with cleft palate.What will the nurse instruct the parents to report immediately?

What assessment made by the nurse would lead the nurse to suspect hip dysplasia?