The nurse is assessing a 6-month-old healthy infant who weighed 7 ...

[Collmarie]

The nurse is assessing a 6-month-old healthy infant who weighed 7 pounds at birth. The nurse should expect the infant to now weigh approximately:
 
  a. 10 pounds. c. 20 pounds.
  b. 15 pounds. d. 25 pounds.

Question 2

A patient receiving an intravenous opioid analgesic has become apneic. Match the nursing interventions with the step numbers in order from the highest priority (first intervention) to the lowest priority (last intervention).
 
  a. Place the patient on continuous pulse oximetry to assess SaO2.
  b. Administer the prescribed naloxone (Narcan) dose by slow IV push.
  c. Ensure oxygen is available.
  d. Prepare to calm the child as analgesia is reversed.
 
   22. Step 1
 
   23. Step 2
 
   24. Step 3
 
   25. Step 4

[bigsis44]

Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
Birth weight doubles at about age 5 to 6 months. At 6 months, an infant who weighed 7 pounds at birth would weigh approximately 15 pounds. Ten pounds is too little; the infant would have gone from the 50th percentile at birth to below the 5th percentile. Twenty pounds or more is too much; the infant would have tripled the birth weight at 6 months.

Answer to Question 2

22. ANS: B
23. ANS: A
24. ANS: C
25. ANS: D