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QUESTIONS SPONTANEOUS
BREATHING FOR 20
1. A baby girl is born 8 weeks SECONDS OR MORE
premature. At birth, she has
no spontaneous respirations
but is successfully 4. Heat regulation is the most
resuscitated. Within several critical factor for a newborn’s
hours she develops survival next to establishing
respiratory grunting, respiration. Which of the
cyanosis, tachypnea, nasal following characteristics of
flaring, and retractions. She’s newborns predispose them to
diagnosed with respiratory poor heat regulation?
distress syndrome, intubated ANSWER: NEWBORNS
and placed on a ventilator.
CANNOT SHIVER YET
Which nursing action should
be included in the baby’s
plan of care to prevent 5. Hypothermia is common in
retinopathy of prematurity? newborn because of their
ANSWER: PARTIAL inability to control heat. The
PRESSURE OF OXYGEN following would be an
appropriate nursing
(Pao2) LEVELS
intervention to prevent heat
loss EXCEPT:
2. Andrea has no spontaneous ANSWER: PLACE THE CRIB
respiration at birth. Suppose BESIDE THE WALL
her amniotic fluid is heavily
stained with meconium.
Which would be your best 6. Which of the following is the
action? most important concept
ANSWER: KEEP HER associated with the high-risk
newborn?
WARM UNTIL A
LARYNGOSCOPE CAN BE ANSWER: SUPPORT THE
PASSED HIGH-RISK NEWBORN’S
CARDIOPULMONARY
ADAPTATION BY
3. Which of the following
MAINTAINING ADEQUATE
manifestations in a six month
AIRWAY
old infant who was born
prematurely would lead a
nurse to suspect that the
infant has apnea?
7. Which of the following becomes too cool, the
nursing diagnoses would be neonate requires:
given priority in the care of a
ANSWER: MORE OXYGEN,
newborn one hour of age?
AND THE NEWBORN’S
ANSWER: ACTIVE METABOLIC RATE
THERMOREGULATION INCREASES
ANSWER: PREVENT
ALVEOLI FROM
32. An insulin dependent
COLLAPSING ON
diabetic delivered a 10-pound
EXPIRATION male. When the baby is
brought to the nursery, the
priority care is to
29. Baby Jenny who is
small-for-gestation is at ANSWER: CHECK THE
increased risk during the BABY’S SERUM GLUCOSE
transitional period for which LEVEL AND ADMINISTER
complication? GLUCOSE IF <40MG/DL
ANSWER: POLYCYTHEMIA
PROBABLY DUE TO
33. The physical finding
CHRONIC FETAL HYPOXIA
you would expect to be seen
in Jezie because of
30. Small for gestation age prematurity is:
newborns are at risk for ANSWER: LACK OF SOLE
difficulty of maintaining body CREASES ON HER FEET
temperature due to:
ANSWER: THE DO NOT
34. Which of the following
HAVE AS MUCH FAT
would the nurse need to
STORES AS DO OTHER incorporate in the plan of
INFANTS care for a newborn who is
large for gestational age
(LGA)? SATA
31. A Nurse is assessing a
newborn who was born at 32 ANSWER:
weeks gestation. Which of
the following would the Nurse Observe closely for
most likely find? SATA signs of
hyperbilirubinemia
ANSWER: FALSE
INTRAVASCULAR AND Echocardiography
INTERSTITIAL Colored doppler
MRI
ECG
55. Postoperative nursing
care to an infant with cleft 60. It is a type of
palate includes positioning congenital heart disease
into: which is an abnormal
communication between the
ANSWER: PRONE two atria, allowing blood to
TRENDELENBURG shift from left to the right
POSITION atrium Causing an increase in
the volume in the right side
of the heart and generally
56. Postoperative nursing results in ventricular
hypertrophy and increased
care to an infant with cleft lift
pulmonary artery blood flow
includes positioning into:
ANSWER: ATRIAL SEPTAL
ANSWER: SUPINE DEFECT
POSITION
61. It is a type of Atrial
Septal Defect wherein the
57. It is the most common opening is at the lower end of
type of congenital heart the septum
disease wherein the pressure ANSWER: OSTIUM
in the left ventricle is greater PREMIUM (ASD1)
than in the right ventricles
ANSWER: VENTRAL 62. It is a type of Atrial
SEPTAL DEFECT Septal Defect wherein the
opening is near the center of
58. It Indicates the the septum
presence of a defect that ANSWER: OSTIUM
permits the passage of blood SECUNDUM (ASD2)
from the higher pressure, left
sided cardiac chamber to a 63. What are the
lower pressure, right sided manifestations of a patient
cardiac chamber. with Atrial Septal Defect?
ANSWER: ACYANOTIC SATA
HEART DISEASE/ ANSWER:
INCREASED PULMONARY Harsh systolic
BLOOD FLOW murmur over the 2nd
or 3rd interspace
59. How Ventral septal (pulmonic area)
defect diagnose. SATA Enlarged right side
ANSWERS: of the heart
Increased pulmonary 68. It occurs when blood is
circulation shunted from the venous to
Separation in the the arterial system as a
atrial septum result of abnormal
Increased oxygen communication between the
saturation in the two system (deoxygenated
right atrium blood to oxygenated blood)
or RIGHT-LEFT shunts.
64. What are the most ANSWER: CYANOTIC
common diagnostic HEART DISEASE/
procedure for Atrial Septal DECREASED PULMONARY
defect? BLOOD FLOW
ANSWER:
Echocardiography 69. What will happen when
Cardiac there is a decreased
catheterization pulmonary blood flow that
Doppler involves obstruction in the
pulmonary artery? SATA
65. What to observe in ANSWER:
postoperative client with Increases pressure
Atrial Septal defect? in the right side of
ANSWER: OBSERVE FOR the heart
ARRHYTHMIAS Deoxygenated blood
shunts from right to
66. A Nurse is assessing a left RESULTING in
newborn who was diagnose deoxygenated blood
with PDA. Which of the invading the
following would the Nurse systemic circulation
most likely find? SATA
ANSWERS: 70. It is an extremely
Wide pulse pressure serious disorder because the
Low diastolic tricuspid valve is completely
pressure closed allowing no blood to
Machinery murmur flow from the right atrium to
ECG is normal – but the right ventricle.
may show ventricle ANSWER: TRICUSPID
enlargement if the ATRESIA
shunt is large
71. Tricuspid Atresia causes
67. The most common blood to cross through the
diagnostic procedure used for patent foramen ovale into
PDA is: the left atrium, bypassing the
ANSWER: lungs. What will be develop
ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY into an infant if the shunts
are close? SATA
ANSWER:
Extreme Cyanosis presented by these
Tachycardia symptoms?
Dyspnea ANSWER: TETRALOGY OF
FALLOT
72. Which nursing
management should be 75. It is a procedure in
included in the baby’s plan of treating Tetralogy of Fallot
care in treating Tricuspid wherein it relieves pulmonary
Atresia? stenosis, VSD and overriding
ANSWER: aorta.
IV infusion of PGE1 ANSWER: BROCK
Surgery PROCEDURE
ANSWER: SLOW PR