Risks
This describes an infant who weighs less than the 10 percentile for gestational age.
What is SGA?
This intervention is encouraged to promote bonding and warmth. It does not involve feeding.
What is skin to skin?
This is where the Neonatal Hypoglycemia policy can be found.
Policy Stat from Piedmont Empowered homepage.
When administering glucose gel, you should first use gauze to perform this task to the infant.
Use a gauze swab to dry the buccal mucosa.
This describes an infant who has temperatures of less than 97.1 for greater than or equal to two hours.
Hypothermia
This intervention is considered a medication and is ordered by the NNP.
What is glucose gel?
This is where you would find the glucose gel after an order is active in Epic.
The Pyxis.
The supplies necessary to apply buccal glucose gel are:
Gloves, gel, medicine cup, 3 cc syringe, gauze
This describes an infant who appears to have “chills”.
What is tenuousness or jitteriness?
This assessment can wait while mom is doing skin to skin until 60 minutes of life.
Infant weight
This is the best place for a jittery newborn that has been fed.
Skin to skin with mom or dad.
After applying gel a _____ should be initiated.
Feeding
This medication is given to hypertensive mothers.
What is Labetalol?
These two particular factors are indications for continuing blood glucose testing for 12 hours.
IDM and LGA
This helpful worksheet for symptomatic or asymptomatic newborns can be found here.
There are links on the policy within Policy Stat.
T/F Glucose gel does not need to be massaged into the mucosa.
False. Buccal gel does need to be massaged into the buccal mucosa.
This infant is between 34-36.6 weeks gestation.
What is a late pre-term infant?
One hour after administering this intervention another blood glucose check should be obtained.
Glucose gel
If skin to skin is not an option, and the nurse wants to keep the infant warm using warm swaddle blankets, they can be found here.
The blanket warmer in the OR on Labor and Delivery
If you have given gel 3 consecutive times without increasing the blood glucose to be above 40 mg/dl, you should do this.
Call the provider /NNP at *7745