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The family centered care consensus model of building clinical competencies to promote the best neurodevelopment of premature infants and family care well-being are focused on:

The physical finding of “blue berry muffin” spots on the skin is commonly associated with which viral infections?

A common theme for protecting and meeting parental needs during end of life or difficult conversations about critically ill infants would include:

You are requested to attend an imminent delivery for a 37-week infant of a mother in labor 20 hours. The labor and delivery nurse reports that there are variable decelerations of fetal heart rate noted on the monitor. You know these are caused by

The neonatal nurse practitioner evaluates a newborn hip by flexing the knee and hip, grasps the thigh with the thumb positioned along the inner thigh and adducts the leg while pushing laterally on the upper inner thigh.

You are called to evaluate an infant in mother’s room because the nurse noted several unusual markings when giving the first bath. You note four hypo-pigmented leaf-shaped white macules.  This was a spontaneous delivery with membranes ruptured 12 hours, RPR, HIV and Hepatitis B negative.  What do you suspect?

When utilizing an instrument in nursing research that is able to be used repeatedly and produces consistent results, the instrument is demonstrating

The lung’s ability to respond by stretching or distending is referred to as

Interpret this capillary blood gas:  pH 7.24, pCO2 59, pO2 35, HCO3 21

You are the NNP called to the emergency room for an imminent delivery of a baby with no prenatal care.  A premature infant is delivered, receives routine NRP interventions including respiratory support of nasal CPAP.  You are asked to quickly assess and estimate gestational age.  You note there are some plantar creases. You would be able to estimate that this infant is at least