FAU Advanced Health Assessment Practice Test

The Apgar score is a quick assessment tool used to evaluate the health of a newborn immediately after birth. It assesses five criteria: Appearance (skin color), Pulse (heart rate), Grimace response (reflexes), Activity (muscle tone), and Respiration (breathing effort). Each category is scored on a scale from 0 to 2, with a maximum possible score of 10.

In this scenario, the infant is showing:

- Pink coloration, which indicates good oxygenation (score of 2 for Appearance).

- Grimacing, reflecting a response to stimuli (score of 1 for Grimace response).

- Flexing limbs indicates some activity but not fully active movements, so this would be scored as 1 for Activity.

- A heart rate of 110 beats per minute is within the normal range for a newborn, which scores 2 for Pulse.

- The description does not specify the infant's breathing effort, so it’s assumed to be normal and awarded a score of 2 for Respiration.

When you add these scores together:

- Appearance: 2

- Pulse: 2

- Grimace: 1

- Activity: 1

- Respiration: 2

This gives a total Ap