A sign of illness in the newborn is a. More than two soft ...

[ap345]

A sign of illness in the newborn is
 
  a. More than two soft stools per day
  b. Regurgitating a small amount of feeding
  c. A yellow scaly lesion on the scalp
  d. An axillary temperature greater than 37.5 C

Question 2

The nurse who is teaching a group of women about breast cancer should tell the women that
 
  a. Risk factors identify almost all women who will develop breast cancer.
  b. African-American women have a higher rate of breast cancer.
  c. One in 10 women in the United States will develop breast cancer in her lifetime.
  d. The exact cause of breast cancer is unknown.

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Answer to Question 1

D
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A This is an expected finding in the newborn.
B This is an expected finding in the newborn.
C This is a sign of cradle cap or seborrhea capitis.
D Infants commonly respond to a variety of illnesses with an elevation in
temperature. The normal range for an axillary temperature in the newborn is
36.5 to 37.3 C.

Answer to Question 2

D
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A Risk factors help identify a small percentage of women in whom breast cancer
eventually will develop.
B Caucasian women have a higher incidence of breast cancer; however,
African-American women have a higher rate of dying of breast cancer after they
are diagnosed.
C One in eight women in the United States will develop breast cancer in her
lifetime.
D The exact cause of breast cancer in unknown.

[ap345]

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[gcook]

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