Title: Newborn Period
Course: NUR 1411C Nursing Care for the Family Part 1 > Section: Module 5

The newborn is considered a neonate from birth through the 28th day of life. This module will prepare the nursing student to care for the infant with normal physiological and behavioral adaptations to extrauterine life as well as those infants who manifest findings that are deviations from normal.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this module, students will be able to:

- Describe biologic system adaptations of the newborn to extauterine life.
- Describe the appropriate sequence of a newborn assessment.
- Describe the purpose and method of common nursing interventions and procedures for the neonate after birth.
- Identify assessment findings in the neonate that are deviations from normal.
- Describe the behavioral characteristic of the neonate.
- Identify the purpose and categories of the APGAR score.
- Determine gestational age based on infant characteristics.
- Discuss current recommendations for optimum nutrition of the infant including breastfeeding and formula-feeding practices.
- Discuss care of the preterm infant and conditions associated with gestational age.
- Describe the risk factors for and treatment of high-risk infants with complications.

Readings

Perry, Hockenberry, Lowdermilk & Wilson. Maternal Child Nursing Care, (4th ed.), 2010.  Evolve Elsevier: MOSBY .  ISBN-13: 978-0-323-05720-2

- Chapter 24
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Chapter 28

Websites

APGAR

Ballard Score for Gestational Age

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5iNDcDgnkM&playnext=1&list=PL6992612DB545DAAE&feature=results_main

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Xn05PnC1Y&list=PL6992612DB545DAAE&index=2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSmyv8xy2mA&list=PL6992612DB545DAAE&index=3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf2Z7_5dBlY&list=PL6992612DB545DAAE&index=4

Newborn Assessment

Circumcision

Circumcision 2

Neonatal Jaundice