ATI RN
Nursing Care of the Newborn Questions
Question 1 of 5
A faculty member explains to a nursing student that the best way to prevent hemorrhage from injuries in a neonate is which of the following?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 2 of 5
A nurse is beginning a newborns physical assessment and notes that the infant is jumpy and seems irritable when being handled and when the nurse or parents speak. What action by the nurse is best?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 3 of 5
A nurse is assessing an infant who has a large bruise around his neck and face from a nuchal cord. What other assessment finding correlates with this condition?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Infants born with a nuchal cord often demonstrate significant bruising to the face and neck. This may be upsetting to the parents. Irritability with handling might be related to damage from birth trauma. Large-for-gestational-age infants often have bruising related to extraction techniques during a difficult birth. Obvious vertebral defects are associated with neural tube anomalies and can be seen in children with hairy pigmented skin lesions and hairy nevi located in the posterior midline area near the spinal column.
Question 4 of 5
An infant who was stable for a day after birth now demonstrates pallor tachycardia tachypnea and circumoral cyanosis. The parent asks how the child might have a heart problem when he was stable yesterday. What information by the nurse is most accurate?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: This baby has clinical manifestations of tetralogy of Fallot. While the ductus arteriosus remains patent the infant remains stable. However when the ductus begins closing after the first 24 hours of life the infants cardiovascular system becomes unstable and manifestations appear. The other statements are inaccurate.
Question 5 of 5
The perinatal nurse notes that a newborn does not seem to have an opening inside the anal ring. Which action by the nurse takes priority?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.