NCC RNC-NIC Certification Sample Questions

The NCC RNC Certification for Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing Certification Sample Question Set on this page is designed to familiarize you with the actual NCC RNC-NIC exam format and question types. These sample questions help you understand how questions are structured and what to expect on test day. While they provide a useful starting point, they represent only a limited preview of the real exam experience.

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NCC RNC-NIC Sample Questions:

01. A healthy term infant is being discharged home and will be exclusively breastfed.
Which supplement teaching should the nurse provide?
a) Give vitamin D drops every day, starting in the first days of life
b) Give fluoride drops every day, starting at discharge
c) Give iron drops every day, starting at discharge

02. A calm 34-week infant has an oscillometric blood pressure reading that is much higher than earlier readings. The nurse notices that the cuff in use is noticeably narrow for the infant's upper arm.
The nurse should
a) average it with the earlier readings before recording it
b) repeat it with a correctly sized cuff
c) report the reading to the provider as new hypertension

03. A newborn has features consistent with trisomy 21, and a chromosome analysis (karyotype) has been sent. The mother is 24 years old. The parents ask whether a future baby would be likely to have the same condition.
Which response by the nurse is most accurate?
a) The chromosome result will show which type it is, and a genetic counselor can explain the risk
b) The condition is inherited from a parent, so each future baby has a high risk
c) The risk depends only on maternal age, so it matches that of any woman your age

04. A term infant of a mother with diabetes is plethoric, lethargic, and feeding poorly. Repeated testing confirms marked polycythemia, and the blood glucose is within the normal range.
Which treatment should the nurse anticipate?
a) A packed red blood cell transfusion
b) A double-volume exchange transfusion with whole blood
c) A partial exchange transfusion with normal saline

05. A term newborn who is small for gestational age has petechiae, hepatosplenomegaly and microcephaly. Cranial ultrasound shows periventricular calcifications, and the infant does not pass the newborn hearing screen.
Which congenital infection should the nurse suspect most strongly?
a) Syphilis
b) Cytomegalovirus
c) Toxoplasmosis

06. During the night, the nurse caring for a 30-week infant receives a phone call from a woman who says she is the infant's grandmother and asks how the baby is doing. On admission the parents set a privacy code and gave the unit a list of people allowed to receive updates.
How should the nurse respond?
a) Transfer the call to the charge nurse to decide what can be shared
b) Confirm she is on the parents' list by her name and relationship, then give a general update
c) Ask for the privacy code and check her name against the parents' list before sharing any update

07. The mother of a 30-week infant is struggling to express enough milk. She says a friend who is breastfeeding has offered to pump extra milk for the baby and asks whether the nurses can give it.
Which response by the nurse is most appropriate?
a) No, only screened, pasteurized milk from a milk bank can be used
b) Yes, if the milk is labeled with her name and brought in on ice
c) Yes, if your friend is healthy and freezes the milk right after pumping

08. Routine nasal surveillance cultures show that a stable 30-week infant in an open-bay NICU is colonized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The infant has no signs of infection.
The nurse should
a) place the infant on contact precautions, cohorting with other infants who carry MRSA
b) continue standard precautions, since the infant is not infected
c) start IV vancomycin as ordered and transfer the infant into an airborne isolation room

09. While preparing a feeding, a nurse notices that the syringe of expressed breast milk at the bedside is labeled for a different infant. The nurse removes it before anything is given, locates the correct milk and feeds the infant without incident. A colleague says, "No harm was done, so there's nothing to report. Just be more careful next time."
What should the nurse do about the event?
a) Notify the provider so the infant can be assessed for exposure to the wrong milk
b) Report it in the event-reporting system as a near miss
c) Discuss it informally with the colleague and the charge nurse instead of filing a report

10. Twin girls with similar names are in adjacent incubators. One twin is due for a blood culture before her first antibiotic dose. The nurse is at her bedside, which is labeled with a crib card showing her name.
How should the nurse confirm the infant's identity before collecting the specimen?
a) Match the name and bed number on the crib card with the order and the specimen label
b) Ask the parent at the bedside to state the infant's name
c) Match the name and medical record number on her ID band with the order and the specimen label

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