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Baby Sarah is a 6-month-old infant who recently started staying with a new caregiver during the day while her parents work. Sarah often cries when her parents leave and seems to be cautious around the new caregiver. However, after a few weeks, Sarah begins to smile at the caregiver, calm down more easily, and accept comfort from her during the day. Based on Erikson’s psychosocial stages, which stage is Sarah currently navigating?

The mating between a pedigreed Labrador retriever and a pedigreed German shepherd would produce a(n) ______.

Imagine that a newly discovered, recessively inherited disease is expressed only in individuals with type O blood, although the disease and blood group are independently inherited. A normal man with Type A blood and a normal woman with Type B blood already have one child with the disease. The woman is now pregnant for the second time. What is the probability that the second child will have the disease? Assume that both parents are heterozygous for the gene that causes the disease.

Which of the following figures, A, B, or C, represents semi-conservative replication?

You are caring for a former 24-week premature neonate now corrected to 50 weeks with BPD.  She has been on a Lasix course for 2 weeks and has decreased urine output.  You obtain a renal function panel and the serum creatinine level results at 2.4.  What effect on the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is reflected by this creatinine level?

A 3-day-old, term neonate is admitted through the Emergency Department with a temperature of 38.5 C, lethargy, poor feeding, skin rash, and centrally pink on room air with no significant respiratory distress.  Your initial clinical lab evaluation for this infant should include:

During routine screening for hypothyroidism in a 28-week premature infant, the Free T4 is abnormally low.  The next BEST intervention would be:

Upon examination of a term neonate with hematemesis and skeletal defects including underdevelopment of both forearms, the NNP should have which of the following disorders in the differential diagnosis? 

You are the NNP consulted for a term male infant with h/o limited prenatal care and difficult delivery with Apgar scores of 3, 4, and 8.  After spending 3 hours with his mother in skin-to-skin holding he was taken to the well-baby nursery.  He is now 7 hours old and was noted to have brief periods of apnea in the nursery.  You admit him to the NICU and on your assessment, you note the following:  occasional brief staring and repetitive sucking movements.  The most likely diagnosis at this time is?

EXAM QUESTION Resources Allowed: You can use the following excel templates ANOVA CHI SQUARE ANALYSIS REGRESSION Also you can use your ONE PAGE of NOTES uploaded on sharepoint     ONE PAGE NOTES FOR FINAL EXAM You must access the ZOOM MEETING ROOM From your mobile device with the Camera on from an angle that can complement the Honorlock camera. The camera must stay ON and the audio must stay ON for the duration of the exam until the Honorlock test is submitted. Dr Simpson ZOOM Meeting Room   I understand I must join the zoom meeting room with my phone with video on showing an angle where I can be seen working on my exam.