Chapter 5 Gestational Age Assessment
1. Low birth weight is classified as birth weight less than:
2. Length measurement entails measuring the infant:
3. Large for gestational age is birth weight:
4. Small for gestational age is birth weight:
5. Appropriate weight for gestational age is birth weight:
6. Head circumference indicates brain:
7. An infant is born at 36 weeks’ gestation. This infant is considered to be:
8. When assessing a premature infant born at 27 weeks’ gestation, the nurse would expect to find:
9. When assessing an infant with intrauterine growth restriction, the nurse can anticipate finding that the infant’s:
10. A physical assessment performed on a newborn infant notes that the skin of the infant is wrinkling, the areolae are raised with 10-mm buds, and the pinna springs back from being folded. Based on these physical assessment findings, this infant is considered to be:
11. Following the initial assessment of the newborn infant, the infant’s weight, length, and head circumference are plotted out on a growth chart. The growth chart shows that the infant’s weight is at the 15th percentile, length is at the 20th percentile, and head circumference is at the 30th percentile. These results indicate that the infant is:
12. A 4000-g male infant has just been delivered via cesarean section due to fetal distress. The infant is born through thick meconium and requires endotracheal suctioning. At the initial assessment, the infant’s skin is noted to be leathery, cracked, and wrinkled. The infant’s scrotum is noted to be pendulous with the testes descended. The nurse assessing this infant can anticipate that this infant is:
13. A gestational age examination has just been performed on a newborn infant. The infant was noted to be in flexed position. The assessment shows that the square window angle is 0 degrees, the popliteal angle is 45 degrees, and the scarf sign evaluation shows increased resistance to crossing the midline. The infant’s skin is noted to be cracking with no veins visible. Creases over the entire sole of the plantar surface are noted. Based on these findings, which of the following gestational ages would this infant be likely to be?
14. The correct way to assess the scarf sign in an infant is to:
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