Maternity Nursing: Newborn

Nursing care and parental teaching related to circumcision, bathing and umbilical cord care, crib safety and safe sleep, and car seat safety for newborns.

Concerns related to infant nutrition, including weight loss, hunger cues, patient teaching related to breastfeeding, and the do's and don'ts of breastmilk storage and formula feeding.

Considerations related to preterm infants and postmature infants. The pathophysiology, risk factors, signs and symptoms, complications, and nursing care of meconium aspiration syndrome.

The pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, treatment, complications, nursing care, and parental teaching of hyperbilirubinemia. The nursing care associated with phototherapy to treat hyperbilirubinemia.

Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), hypoglycemia, the macrosomic infant, sepsis neonatorum, and necrotizing enterocolitis.

Primitive reflexes present at birth (e.g., Moro/startle, walking/stepping, rooting, sucking, palmar grasp, Tonic neck reflex, plantar grasp, and Babinski), the heel stick procedure, lab tests at birth, and prophylactic medications administered to the newborn following delivery.

Expected findings, abnormal findings, and normal variations of the infant's skin, head, face, clavicles, umbilical cord, and hips.

The components and scoring of the APGAR score, normal newborn vital signs, the components of the neuromuscular and physical maturity assessments of the New Ballard scale, thermoregulation in the infant, and anthopometric measurements such as height and weight.