Newborn Assessment and Care
bedside report, routine medications, first bath, physical assessment of infant, determine gestational age
- Answer-what isincluded in nursery or couple admission (5)
vit k, erythromycin, hep b - Answer-routine medications given to infant at nursery or couplet admission
(3)
1 hour - Answer-within how long after birth is vit k and erythromycin given to infant
duration and course, status of mother and fetus, antepartum history - Answer-labor assessment data
(3)
apgar score, review of vital signs, voids, passing of meconium - Answer-condition at birth assessment
data of infant (4)
24 hours - Answer-within how long should newborn void
48 hours - Answer-within how long should newborn have first meconium
,gonorrhea, chlamydia - Answer-preventative treatment for newborns required by law is
erythromycin .5% opthalmic ointment to prevent what infections transferred during birth process (2)
erythromycin .5 - Answer-what is given to prevent gonorrhea and chlamydia transfer during birth
process within 1 hour
absence of gut bacterial flora, inability to produce vitamin k - Answer-what contributes to low
prothrombin levels first few days of life (5-8) (2)
vitamin k - Answer-what given to newborns prevents early clotting problems
.5-1mg IM in vastus lateralis thigh muscle - Answer-how is vitamin k given to newbrn
active, good tone/movement, alert while awake, have strong lusty cry, be consolable - Answer-activity
level of infant should be (5)
limp floppy tone, excessively irritable/inconsolable, rigid/jittery - Answer-activity level abnormalities in
newborn (3)
sole creases, breast tissue, lanugo cartilaginous develpment of ear, testicular descent, scrotal rugae,
labial development - Answer-external physical characteristics to estimate gestational age (7)
objective - Answer-external physical characteristics to estimate gestationl age are obective/subjective
clinical criteria
can be unstable during first 24 hours - Answer-why is neurologic or neurmuscular development not
assessed to estimate gestational age
, 12 - Answer-within how many hours of life is gestational age estimated
less - Answer-the more preterm the infant, the more/less creases there will be on the foot
more - Answer-the more preterm the infant, the more/less lanugo the baby will have
more - Answer-the more floppy the infants ear is the more/less preterm it is
dubowitz - Answer-over simplified tool to estimate gestational age
ballard - Answer-new tool to betterassess gestational age for those infants born between 20-28 weeks
and less than 1500g
good tone - Answer-physical maturaity characteristics of posture
thin but not translucent - Answer-physical maturity characteristics of skin
immature - Answer-square window sign: wrists lie flat means mature/immature
immature - Answer-scarf sign: arm can wrap around neck means mature/immature
mature - Answer-heel-to-ear extension: if foot cant go all the way up to the ear, baby is
mature/immature
on admission, q shift - Answer-how often is weight of baby taken
bedside report, routine medications, first bath, physical assessment of infant, determine gestational age
- Answer-what isincluded in nursery or couple admission (5)
vit k, erythromycin, hep b - Answer-routine medications given to infant at nursery or couplet admission
(3)
1 hour - Answer-within how long after birth is vit k and erythromycin given to infant
duration and course, status of mother and fetus, antepartum history - Answer-labor assessment data
(3)
apgar score, review of vital signs, voids, passing of meconium - Answer-condition at birth assessment
data of infant (4)
24 hours - Answer-within how long should newborn void
48 hours - Answer-within how long should newborn have first meconium
,gonorrhea, chlamydia - Answer-preventative treatment for newborns required by law is
erythromycin .5% opthalmic ointment to prevent what infections transferred during birth process (2)
erythromycin .5 - Answer-what is given to prevent gonorrhea and chlamydia transfer during birth
process within 1 hour
absence of gut bacterial flora, inability to produce vitamin k - Answer-what contributes to low
prothrombin levels first few days of life (5-8) (2)
vitamin k - Answer-what given to newborns prevents early clotting problems
.5-1mg IM in vastus lateralis thigh muscle - Answer-how is vitamin k given to newbrn
active, good tone/movement, alert while awake, have strong lusty cry, be consolable - Answer-activity
level of infant should be (5)
limp floppy tone, excessively irritable/inconsolable, rigid/jittery - Answer-activity level abnormalities in
newborn (3)
sole creases, breast tissue, lanugo cartilaginous develpment of ear, testicular descent, scrotal rugae,
labial development - Answer-external physical characteristics to estimate gestational age (7)
objective - Answer-external physical characteristics to estimate gestationl age are obective/subjective
clinical criteria
can be unstable during first 24 hours - Answer-why is neurologic or neurmuscular development not
assessed to estimate gestational age
, 12 - Answer-within how many hours of life is gestational age estimated
less - Answer-the more preterm the infant, the more/less creases there will be on the foot
more - Answer-the more preterm the infant, the more/less lanugo the baby will have
more - Answer-the more floppy the infants ear is the more/less preterm it is
dubowitz - Answer-over simplified tool to estimate gestational age
ballard - Answer-new tool to betterassess gestational age for those infants born between 20-28 weeks
and less than 1500g
good tone - Answer-physical maturaity characteristics of posture
thin but not translucent - Answer-physical maturity characteristics of skin
immature - Answer-square window sign: wrists lie flat means mature/immature
immature - Answer-scarf sign: arm can wrap around neck means mature/immature
mature - Answer-heel-to-ear extension: if foot cant go all the way up to the ear, baby is
mature/immature
on admission, q shift - Answer-how often is weight of baby taken
