NEONATAL NURSE PRACTITIONER
NCC EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
GBS occurs during what age - ANSWER 1 week of life
Signs of neonatal dehyrdation - ANSWER Suken eyes, cold feet, excessive sleepiness, fussiness, suken
fontanelles
Biophysical Profile (BPP) - ANSWER Assessment of five variables in the fetus that help to evaluate fetal
risk: breathing movement, body movement, tone, amniotic fluid volume, and fetal heart rate reactivity.
Caput Succedaneum - ANSWER Edema under scalp- pressure part of head against the cervix
How does caput succedaneum feel - ANSWER soft, spongy, crosses suture lines
When does caput succedaneum resolve? - ANSWER in a few days
Fetal fibronectin (fFN) - ANSWER 99% probability of birth within 2 weeks
Fetal circulation in blood vessels - ANSWER is constricted with very little blood flow due to increase PVR
APGAR 4-6 indicates - ANSWER focused resucitation efforts
APGAR <3 - ANSWER intensivie rescuitation efforts
Fetus responses to hypoxia by - ANSWER redistruction of blood to vital organ, transient bradycardia, and
anerobic metabolsim
essential fatty acids (EFAs) help to improve - ANSWER visual acuity and congenitive ability
, Oxygenation - ANSWER partial pressure of oxygen within arterial blood reflects the exchange of oxygen
Factors that impact oxygenation - ANSWER percentage of oxygen delivered and mechanical mean airway
presse(paw)
Ventilation - ANSWER removal of co2
What impacts infant co2 removal - ANSWER pulmonary blood flow and generated infant breath
In conventional ventilation strategies for co2 removal is most affected by - ANSWER tidal volume (amp of
the bx by PIP -PEEP) and frequency
PEEP promotes and improves - ANSWER FRC
Mean Airway Pressure (Paw) - ANSWER avg pressure applied to the lung during the respiratory cycle
Paw is affected by - ANSWER PIP, PEEP, iT, frequency, & gas flow
Time constant - ANSWER resistance x compliance
Compliance - ANSWER change in volume divided by change in pressure
Resistance - ANSWER change in pressure divided change in flow
Tidal volume - ANSWER difference between PIP and PEEP
Normal neonatal tidal volume - ANSWER 4-6 mL/kg
NCC EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
GBS occurs during what age - ANSWER 1 week of life
Signs of neonatal dehyrdation - ANSWER Suken eyes, cold feet, excessive sleepiness, fussiness, suken
fontanelles
Biophysical Profile (BPP) - ANSWER Assessment of five variables in the fetus that help to evaluate fetal
risk: breathing movement, body movement, tone, amniotic fluid volume, and fetal heart rate reactivity.
Caput Succedaneum - ANSWER Edema under scalp- pressure part of head against the cervix
How does caput succedaneum feel - ANSWER soft, spongy, crosses suture lines
When does caput succedaneum resolve? - ANSWER in a few days
Fetal fibronectin (fFN) - ANSWER 99% probability of birth within 2 weeks
Fetal circulation in blood vessels - ANSWER is constricted with very little blood flow due to increase PVR
APGAR 4-6 indicates - ANSWER focused resucitation efforts
APGAR <3 - ANSWER intensivie rescuitation efforts
Fetus responses to hypoxia by - ANSWER redistruction of blood to vital organ, transient bradycardia, and
anerobic metabolsim
essential fatty acids (EFAs) help to improve - ANSWER visual acuity and congenitive ability
, Oxygenation - ANSWER partial pressure of oxygen within arterial blood reflects the exchange of oxygen
Factors that impact oxygenation - ANSWER percentage of oxygen delivered and mechanical mean airway
presse(paw)
Ventilation - ANSWER removal of co2
What impacts infant co2 removal - ANSWER pulmonary blood flow and generated infant breath
In conventional ventilation strategies for co2 removal is most affected by - ANSWER tidal volume (amp of
the bx by PIP -PEEP) and frequency
PEEP promotes and improves - ANSWER FRC
Mean Airway Pressure (Paw) - ANSWER avg pressure applied to the lung during the respiratory cycle
Paw is affected by - ANSWER PIP, PEEP, iT, frequency, & gas flow
Time constant - ANSWER resistance x compliance
Compliance - ANSWER change in volume divided by change in pressure
Resistance - ANSWER change in pressure divided change in flow
Tidal volume - ANSWER difference between PIP and PEEP
Normal neonatal tidal volume - ANSWER 4-6 mL/kg
