The opening between the two atria which allows blood to bypass the right ventricle and lungs
What is the foramen ovale?
100
Touch the infants cheek or corner of the mouth and the baby will turn their head toward the stimulus.
What is rooting?
100
This is black and tarry and formed in utero.
What is meconium or baby's first stool?
100
One of the best ways for the nurse to prevent the spread of infection.
What is handwashing?
100
2500 - 4000grams
What is a normal newborn range for weight?
200
This is a type of fat tissue that has a dark pigment, is highly vascular, and has a high nerve supply. It is found mostly in newborns and helps them to create heat through non-shivering thermogenesis.
What is brown fat?
200
Insert finger in to baby's mouth. Practitioners use this opportunity to check for intact palate and gag reflex as well.
What is suck reflex?
200
This is a yellowish-white cream that protects the skin in utero.
What is vernix?
200
This is the best time to initiate breastfeeding and parental bonding. It usually last up to one hour after birth.
What is the first period of reactivity?
200
This has two arteries and one vein.
What is the umbilical cord.
300
The loss of body heat via vapor.
What is evaporation?
300
A diminished response to this reflex can indicate hypotonia. Hold baby up and allow one foot to touch the surface of the bed.
What is the stepping reflex?
300
This is an increased area of pigmentation and usually presents in those of darker skin tones.
What is Mongolian spots.
300
If a baby seems irritable and jittery the nurse should do this.
What is a heel stick to check a blood glucose?
300
This is located at the 3 - 4th intercostal space, midclavicular line.
What is the PMI or point of maximum impulse?
400
Newborn babies often have blue hands and feet as they transition to extra-uterine life.
What is acrocyanosis?
400
Grasp the baby's hands and lift the arms allowing baby's head to stay on bed, but taking weight off and then let go suddenly. A decreased response may indicate a neurological or hearing deficit.
What is the Moro or startle reflex?
400
This is bleeding that occurs between the periosteum and the skull and does not cross suture lines.
What is a cephalohematoma?
400
This is the nursing intervention for a newborn with a persistent heart rate below 100 beats per minute.
What is positive pressure bag mask ventilation?
400
A pause in breathing for greater than 20 seconds.
What is apnea?
500
The condition when one or more of the fetal ducts remain open following delivery.
What is persistent fetal circulation?
500
Begin at the heel and stroke the foot upward along the sole. The baby should fan toes and hyperextend foot. This should disappear at 4-8 weeks.
What is the Babinski reflex?
500
These are lesions caused by a concentration of immature blood vessels and can be very common in newborns. They are more pronounced when the infant cries.
What is Nevi or Stork Bites.
500
This intervention should be initiated when the heart rate goes below 60 beats per minute.