Baby Friendly
This policy can be found on the Pulse page and outlines guidelines for infant feeding
What is the Infant Feeding Policy?
This is the first thing you should check when finding an unresponsive adult patient.
What is a pulse?
Newborns should be placed on their backs for sleep, in their own sleep space, and without loose blankets or soft bedding to reduce the risk of this condition.
What is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)?
After delivery, nurses monitor the uterus to ensure it is firm and located here, just below this landmark.
What is the umbilicus?
These early warning signs may include 2+ SIRS criteria, hypothermia, leukopenia, fever, altered mental status, delayed cap refill, and unexplained pain.
What are the early signs and symptoms of sepsis?
The first milk, rich in antibodies and yellow in color, is nicknames "yellow gold"
What is colostrum?
During an adult code, the compression to breath ratio when no advanced airway is in place.
What is 30 compressions to 2 breaths?
To locate this artery for a neonatal arterial stick, hold arm supine with a slightly extended wrist and palpate in the distal notch of the radius, just below the thumb and lateral to the tendon.
What is the radial artery?
This vaccine is recommended for mothers during each pregnancy ideally between 27 and 36 weeks' gestation and can also be given postpartum if not received during pregnancy to protect the newborn from pertussis.
What is the Tdap vaccine?
This type of restraint is permitted only when less restrictive alternatives such as de-escalation, environmental changes, or verbal supervision have already been attempted.
What is physical restraint?
Madison Hospital earned this certification by training staff in the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding created by the World Health Organization.
What is being a Baby Friendly Hospital
The initial heart rate below this number in an infant signals the need for chest compressions.
What is 60 beats per minute?
In newborns this is caused by in-utero exposure to opioids and may present with tremors, irritability, poor feeding, and high-pitched crying.
What is Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (NOWS)?
This recovery protocol for cesarean births promotes early oral intake within 2 hours, foley removal at 6 hours, and mobilization by 8 hours to improve outcomes and reduce complications.
What is Enhanced Recovery After Cesarean (ERAC)?
These are a few of the key interventions that must always be in place for high fall risk patients.
What is low bed position with upper side rails x2, bed alarm on, and placement of fall risk signage?
Sharing these benefits ensures parents can make a fully informed decision about how to feed their baby
What is the importance of breastfeeding education?
This is the preferred method for delivering effective chest compressions during an infant code.
What is the two thumb encircling technique?
This approach to managing NOWS evaluated whether an infant can perform three basic functions feeding effectively, resting undisturbed, and being consoled within 10 minutes.
What is the Eat-Sleep-Console method?
A score of 13 or higher on this 10-item screening tool suggests a mother may be experiencing postpartum depression and needs further evaluation.
What is the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)?
In the PASS method, this step ensures the extinguisher effectively smothers the fire at its source, rather than just spreading flames.
What is "sweep side to side at the base of the fire?
Bonding, regulation of temperature, and stabilization of blood sugar and heart rate are all benefits of this practice.
What is skin to skin?
This is the recommended ratio of compressions to breaths during coordinated chest compressions and ventilation in neonatal resuscitation.
What is 3 compressions to 1 breath (3:1 ratio)?
During a neonatal arterial stick, the skin should be entered at this angle and location (just proximal to the wrist at the level of the proximal skin crease, where pulse is the strongest).
What is 30–45° angle into the radial artery site?
For late preterm infants (34-36.6 weeks), breastfeeding mothers should begin pumping within this timeframe and this long.
What is within 6 hours of birth and for 15 minutes?
This is what needs to be on the label of an IV admixture prepared on the unit when pharmacy is not available and an emergent dose is required.
What is the drug name, strength, date prepared, and the expiration date and time?