ATI RN
Nursing Care of the Newborn and Family Questions
Question 1 of 5
New parents wish to include their extended family in welcoming their new baby. What suggestion does the nurse offer this couple?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Nurses can foster attachment in several ways, including encouraging parents to invite siblings and other family members to visit for short periods of time to avoid tiring the mother and overstimulating the baby. Of course sick people should not visit. Others can be recruited to feed the baby, and often relatives and close friends desire to do so. If all the visiting takes place when the baby is sleeping, the baby and the visitors cannot get to know each other.
Question 2 of 5
A nurse reads in the chart that a baby has a positive crossed extension reflex and asks a more experienced nurse to demonstrate this assessment. How does the nurse perform the assessment?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: A positive crossed extension reflex occurs when the infant is supine and one foot is stimulated. The infant should flex, adduct, and then extend the opposite leg. Tapping the forehead is part of the glabellar reflex assessment. The crawling reflex is present when the infant attempts to crawl while prone. The Galant reflex (or trunk incurvation reflex) is assessed with the infant in a prone position. Stroke one side of the vertebral column and watch the baby's buttocks curve toward the side where the stimulation occurred.
Question 3 of 5
When thinking about scoring an Apgar assessment, the nurse knows that grimace is an assessment of what in a newborn?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 4 of 5
A full-term newborn has been delivered by a physician after a lengthy labor and delivery. The newborn has poor tone, minimal respiratory effort, and central cyanosis. The cord is cut, and the patient is placed in an infant warmer. What data does the nurse need to notice that are clinically significant? Select all that apply.
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 5 of 5
Of the three fetal shunts, which one moves fetal blood from the lungs through the right atrium to the left atrium?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.