What should parents understand is one of the most common causes of injury and death for an 8 months

old infant?

A. Poisoning.
B. Separation anxiety.
C. Aspiration.
D. Falling.
ANSWER: C

The nurse is assessing an eight months old child. Which developmental skills are normal and should be
expected?

A. Speaks in short sentences.

B. Sits alone.
C. Can feed self with a spoon.
D. Momentarily head control.
ANSWER: B

You are observing a 5 months old for developmental skills. Which of the following skills would concern
you if the infant was not demonstrating?

A. Follows objects with eyes.

B. Crawling.
C. Sitting with support.
D. Grasps objects.
ANSWER: A

The infant uses a crude pincer grasp by _____________months of age, where as a neat pincer grasp by
______________ months.

A. 9 and 11.
B. 2 and 8.
C. 3 and 11.
D. 9 and 5.
ANSWER: A

During infancy, thermoregulation becomes more efficient. The most effective methods to maintain their
infant body temperature is:

A. Baby Posture.
B. Shivering.
C. Evaporation.
D. Conduction.
 E. Convection.
ANSWER: B

During infancy period, the kidneys remain immature and unable to concentrate urine as much as an
adult.

A. True.
B. False.
ANSWER: A

Regarding to extrusion reflex. Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

A. Occurs when the food placed on an infant’s tongue is thrust forward and out of the mouth.
B. Usually appears at 4 months.
C. It is a life-saving reflex.
D. It interprets as the infant as food dislike.
ANSWER: D

The nurse knows that the head circumference by the end of the first year equal:

A. 46 cm.
B. 43 cm.
C. 33 cm.
D. 54 cm.
ANSWER: A

Nansy birth weight is 3.5 kg. The nurse anticipates that her weight by the end of the first year is:

A. 5 kg.
B. 12.5 kg.
C. 10.5 kg.
D. 7 kg.
ANSWER: C

Usually the first primary deciduous teeth to erupt are the:

A. Upper central incisors.

B. First molar.
C. Canine.
D. Lower central incisors.
ANSWER: A

Which statement by a mother regarding her 12 month old requires further evaluation?

A. I do not add honey to his oatmeal in the morning.

B. He loves drinking juice from a bottle at night that it helps him sleep.
 C. I only buy whole milk, not skim or low fat.
D. I avoid giving him popcorn, and raisins.
ANSWER: B

The expected respiratory rate of a neonate within 3 minutes of birth may be as high as:

A. 50.
B. 60.
C. 80.
D. 100.
ANSWER: B

By keeping the nursery temperature warm and wrapping the neonate in blankets to prevent flow of
heat from the baby body surface to the cooler air. The nurse knows that this is preventing which of the
following types of heat loss:

A. Conduction.
B. Convection.
C. Evaporation.
D. Radiation.
ANSWER: B

The nurse is aware that a healthy newborn’s respirations are:

A. Regular, abdominal, 40-50 per minute, deep.

B. Irregular, abdominal, 30-60 per minute, shallow.
C. Irregular, initiated by chest wall, 30-60 per minute, deep.
D. Regular, initiated by the chest wall, 40-60 per minute, shallow.
ANSWER: B

Two thirds of all deaths that occur during the first year of life occur in the:

A. Infancy period.
B. Neonatal period.
C. Premature period.
D. Preterm period.
ANSWER: B

Newborns production heat through brown fat. All of following are the source of brown fat except:

A. Nape of the neck.

B. Axillae.
C. Subcutaneous.
D. Around kidney.
E. Mediastinum.
ANSWER: C

Which of the following is NOT correct related to fetal circulation?

A. Blood is transferred from placenta through umbilical vein into the ductus venosus.
B. Blood is carried to the right atrium in which is forced into the left atrium by an opening called
foramen ovale.
C. Blood is carried to the right ventricle in which is forced into the left ventricle by an opening
called foramen ovale.
D. Blood is carried from Lt. Pulmonary artery to aorta by opening ductus arteriosus.
ANSWER: C

A newborn regurgitates easily because of an immature cardiac sphincter between the stomach and
esophagus.

A. True.
B. False.
ANSWER: A

Newborn stool at second and third day of life changes in color, consistency, and becoming:

A. Bright green.
B. Green and loose.
C. Clay-colored.
D. Gray colored.
ANSWER: B

When newborns lie on their backs, their heads usually turn to one side or the other. And, the arm and
the leg on the side toward which the head turns extend, and the opposite arm and leg flexed. This reflex
called:

A. ATNR.
B. Moro Reflex.
C. Startle Reflex.
D. Babinski Reflex.
ANSWER: A
Fill in the Blank?

Infant starts to lift head, chest, and upper abdomen and can bear weight on
hands at______________________________months.

A. Two months.
B. Four months.
C. 12 months.
D. Six months.
ANSWER: D

Fill in the Blank?

Within 3 minutes after birth, the normal heart rate of the infant may range
between_____________________________________.

A. 100 and 180.

B. 130 and 170.
C. 120 and 160.
D. 100 and 130.
ANSWER: C

Fill in the Blank?

_________________reflex elicited by the examiner stroking the cheek or

corner of the infant’s mouth. The infant’s head turns toward the stimulus and
opens its mouth.

A. Moro reflex.
B. Sucking reflex.
C. Gasping reflex.
D. Rooting Reflex.
ANSWER: D
Fill in the Blank?

Coagulability is temporarily diminished because a newborn’s intestine is

sterile at birth. So, ______________________is usually administered
intramuscularly into the lateral anterior thigh, immediately after birth.

A. Vitamin K.
B. Vitamin E.
C. Phyeton vitamin.
D. Vitamin B12.
E. Vitamin D.

ANSWER: A

Fill in the Blank?

By 6 months, infant’s visual acuity is _______________ of adults.

A. Same.
B. Half.
C. 6 over 6.
D. Two third.
ANSWER: B

Fill in the Blank?

The nurse is aware that the earliest age at which an infant is able to say some
simple vowel sounds is ________________ months.

A. 3.
B. 5.
C. 12.
D. 15.
ANSWER: B
Fill in the Blank?

The nurse is aware that the earliest age at which an infant is spends his/her
time looking at hands uses them, as toy (hand regard) is ___________months.

A. 3.
B. 1.
C. 8.
D. 12.
ANSWER: A

Fill in the Blank?

The normal respiratory rate of the toddler may range between_____________.

Explain why the toddlers tend to have a prominent abdomen?

Why toilet training should begin and be completed according to a child's

ability to accomplish it, not according to a set schedule?

Explain why the parents of normal full-term infant can thrive on breast milk
or a commercial iron-fortified formula without the addition of any solid food
until 4 to 6 months?