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Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate questions with correct answers.
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Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate questions with correctanswers
Which action should the labor and delivery nurse take?
Explain that she has a healthy baby girl with a great cry.
Wait for the obstetrician to tell Blanca what is happening.
Answer Blanca's questions and allow her to see her daughter.
Take the infant to the neonatal intensive care unit immediately. Correct
Answer-Answer Blanca's questions and allow her to see her daughter.
The labor and delivery nurse knows that many infants with a cleft lip
also have a cleft palate. Which assessment technique will determine if
the infant has a cleft palate?
Insert a gloved finger and palpate the top of the infant's mouth.
Assess the inside of the infant's mouth with a pen light.
Place a sterile tongue blade in the mouth and press down.
,Request a computed tomography (CT) scan of the face and mouth.
Correct Answer-Insert a gloved finger and palpate the top of the infant's
mouth.
Based on the newborn assessment that the NICU nurse records in the
EMR, which areas need to be addressed?
Acrocyanosis.
Sucking reflex.
Palates intact.
Moro reflex.
Nares patent. Correct Answer-Sucking reflex.
Palates intact.
Nares patent.
Physiological Integrity/Psychological IntegrityDue to Blanca's limited
prenatal care, she and her husband are unprepared to have an infant born
with an abnormality. Which prenatal screening could have detected the
presence of a cleft lip at 13 to 14 weeks' gestation?
, Glucose tolerance screening.
Coombs screening.
Alphafetoprotein screening.
Ultrasound screening. Correct Answer-Ultrasound screening.
Which therapeutic response is appropriate for the NICU nurse to give to
Jose?
"A cleft lip and palate is the most common birth defect in the United
States."
"I understand this can be upsetting. This deformity occurs early in the
pregnancy, often before a woman knows she is pregnant."
"There are a variety of things that can cause this. Let me access your
wife's prenatal records and review it together."
"Why do you ask what your wife did to cause this? You should be more
supportive and less judgmental of your wife." Correct Answer-"I
understand this can be upsetting. This deformity occurs early in the
pregnancy, often before a woman knows she is pregnant."
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