JANE ASSESSMENT - NICU SPECIFIC EXAM | ACTUAL QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED ANSWERS | GRADED A+ | 2025

enterocolitis (NEC)?
1. How would a baby pre-
sent with hyperbiliru-
binemia?


2. How would a baby pre-
sent with neonatal sep-
sis?


3. How would a baby pre-
sent with a pneumoth-
orax?

4. How would a baby
present with an in-
traventricular hemor-
rhage (IVH)?




5. How would a baby
present with respirato-
ry distress syndrome
(RDS)?

6. How would a baby pre-
sent with a patent duc-
tus arteriosus (PDA)?



7. How would a baby pre-
sent with necrotizing
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, 3. Increased pulse (bounding peripheral pulses)
1. Jaundiced (icterus)
4. Decreased SpO2
2. Coombs positive
5. Respiratory difficulty
3. Decreased hematocrit
4. Increase in bilirubin levels 1. Abdominal girth (distended, increased girth)
2. Abdominal/bowel assessment (big, loopy)
1. Decreased temperature
3. History of feeding intolerance (undigested feeds)
(temperature instability)
4. Low platelets (remember bacteria loves to eat
2. Decreased pulse
platelets)
3. Maternal history
5. Low hematocrit
4. Apnea

1. Change in vital signs
2. Absent breath sounds
3. History of Respiratory
Distress Syndrome (RDS)

1. Fontanels full and tense
2. Change in ABG's or
respiratory status
3. Decreased hematocrit
4. Limp and lethargic
5. Decreased SpO2
6. Decreased pulse
7. Delivered C-section

1. Change in respiratory
status
2. Grunting
3. ABG values (show
increase in carbon
dioxide)
4. History of 34 week LGA

1. Low birth weight infant
2. Cardiac murmur
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