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A 3-day-old newborn is brought to the clinic by her mom for her first exam after being discharged from the newborn nursery. Mom is breastfeeding and notes that her milk “just came in today.” The baby has had two small meconium stools in the past 48 hours and has had “about 3 or 4 wet diapers yesterday and today.” When examining the newborn, the pediatric nurse practitioner notices the newborn is jaundiced just past the nipple line, about half way to the umbilicus. Mom states that the baby “looks more yellow today than she did yesterday”. What should the pediatric nurse practitioner do?

The primary care pediatric nurse practitioner elicits positive Ortolani and Barlow signs in a 6-month-old infant not previously noted in the medical record. What is the correct treatment for this infant?

The pediatric nurse practitioner is examining a 12-month-old male who presents for his well child check. Which finding would cause the pediatric nurse practitioner to become concerned?

A child has a recessive genetic disorder that is homozygous for that mutation. What is most likely about this child’s parents?

The primary care pediatric nurse practitioner is counseling a couple about genetic risks and learns that one parent has neurofibromatosis, an autosomal dominant disorder, and the other parent does not. What will the nurse practitioner include when discussing this disorder and its transmission?

A 5-day-old infant who was delivered at home has abdominal distension and poor feeding. The mother is worried that the infant is constipated because he didn’t have a first stool until yesterday and it was only a very small amount of meconium. What will the primary care pediatric nurse practitioner do?

The parent of a 2-week-old infant reports that the infant was diagnosed with transient tachypnea of the newborn shortly after birth. The primary care pediatric nurse practitioner understands that, in this condition what is true?

What is the primary care provider’s (PCP) primary care intervention for a child diagnosed with achondroplasia?

The primary care pediatric nurse practitioner is performing a well baby examination on a 2-month-old infant who has gained 25 grams per day in the last interval. The mother is breastfeeding and states she has good milk production and the infant feeds well, but over the past week her infant seems fussy and wants to nurse more often. What will the nurse practitioner tell her?

A marketing team for a fitness app wants to collect a large amount of data on workout habits from a national sample quickly and at a low cost. Given what you have learned in this class, which method of administering questionnaires typically offers the best Administrative Control, meaning that it less expensive and less time consuming for this goal?