Physical Assessment RNC NIC
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Chorioamnionitis : Symptoms - ANSWER✔✔Maternal fever >100.4; uterine
tenderness; tachycardia, maternal elevated WBC
What is the significance of green amniotic fluid? - ANSWER✔✔meconium
stained
What is the significance of yellow amniotic fluid? - ANSWER✔✔meconium or
sepsis
What is the significance of cloudy amniotic fluid? - ANSWER✔✔sepsis
How soon after birth should gestational age assessments be conducted? -
ANSWER✔✔within 48 hours to ensure high accuracy
New ballard score is most accurate when an 20 to 26 week infant is scored when? -
ANSWER✔✔within 12 hours of birth
The new ballard score has how many physical and how many neurological
categories? - ANSWER✔✔6 of each
New ballard score is accurate by how many weeks? - ANSWER✔✔about two
weeks GA
,Gestational Age: Posture - ANSWER✔✔with increasing gestation posture is more
flexed; preterm posture is hypotonic
Gestational Age: Square Window - ANSWER✔✔angle decreases with increasing
gestational age
Gestational Age: Arm Recoil - ANSWER✔✔
Gestational Age: Popliteal Angle - ANSWER✔✔Angle decreases with increasing
gestational age
Gestational Age: Scarf Sign - ANSWER✔✔performed by taking infant hand and
pulling across chest to opposite shoulder
Gestational Age: Heel to Ear - ANSWER✔✔
Gestational Age: Skin - ANSWER✔✔With increasing GA transparency decreases;
texture increases; vessels less visible
Gestational Age: Lanugo - ANSWER✔✔fine hair present from 20 to 28 weeks
Gestational Age: Plantar Creases - ANSWER✔✔appear at 30 weeks; extend to the
heel as GA increases
Gestational Age: Breast Development - ANSWER✔✔1-2 mm by 36 weeks
10 mm by 40 weeks
, Gestational Age: Eyes and Ears - ANSWER✔✔Eye lids are fused until 26 to 28
weeks
Ear pinnas are floppy until 34 weeks
Gestational Age: Female Genitalia - ANSWER✔✔By 40 weeks labia majora are
covering the clitoris
Gestational Age: Male Genetalia - ANSWER✔✔Testes are undescended until 28
weeks
Fully descended by 40 weeks with rugae
Classify Maturity: Terms - Preterm - ANSWER✔✔Any infant born before 37th
week of gestation
Classify Maturity: Terms - Late preterm - ANSWER✔✔34 and 0 days up to 36
and 6 days
Classify Maturity: Terms - Term - ANSWER✔✔Born 38 weeks up to 42nd week
CDC recommends what growth chart for ages 0 to 24 months? -
ANSWER✔✔World Health Organization growth chart
SGA small for gestational age is defined as - ANSWER✔✔birth weight less than
10th percentile
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