ATI RN
Nursing Care of the Newborn Questions
Question 1 of 5
The nurse teaching a family about bonding with their infant describes touch as an important facet of this process. What does the nurse understand is most important about touch and bonding?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 2 of 5
The nurse holds an infant upright and allows his feet to brush the surface of the examination table. Which of the following is the normal reflex response to this stimulation?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The stepping reflex occurs when the infant is held upright and his or her feet brush a horizontal surface distal to the feet. Drawing the legs up tight against the lower abdomen would be an abnormal response. Extending the legs against pressure is a positive magnet reflex. Curling the toes in, then fanning them outward, is a positive Babinski reflex.
Question 3 of 5
The Apgar assessment tells the nurses and clinicians on the labor and delivery unit what information about the newborn?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 4 of 5
A nurse has just been asked to be the baby nurse for a coworker who is working with a birthing woman at 35 weeks, 3 days. The patient has preeclampsia, has had a very hard labor with multiple decelerations on her fetal heart monitor, and her amniotic fluid had meconium when her water was broken earlier in the day. In anticipation of this birth, what resources will the nurse need to gather? Select all that apply.
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 5 of 5
The most effective time to initiate breast-feeding is in which stage of reactivity for the neonate?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.