Physical Assessment
The normal term newborn heart rate range.
What is 110-160 beats per minute?
This reflex is also known as the startle reflex.
What is the Moro reflex?
The white, cheesy substance often found on a newborn's skin.
What is vernix?
The normal axillary temperature range of a newborn.
What is 36.5°C-37.5°C?
The first milk produced by the mother that is rich in antibodies and nutrients.
What is colostrum?
The normal respiratory rate for a newborn.
What is 30-60 breaths per minute
This reflex causes a newborn to turn toward a touched cheek.
What is the rooting reflex?
Fine, downy hair commonly seen on the shoulders and back of newborns.
What is lanugo?
This finding may indicate respiratory distress in a newborn.
What is nasal flaring?
A healthy term newborn should have its first void within this time frame after birth.
What is within the first 24 hours of life?
The soft spot on the top of a newborns head.
What is the anterior fontanel?
This reflex helps newborns coordinate feeding.
What are the suck and swallow reflexes?
The average head circumference of a term newborn.
What is approximately 33-35 cm?
A bluish discoloration of the hands and feet that is often normal shortly after birth
What is acrocyanosis?
This dark green, sticky stool is the newborn's first bowel movement.
What is meconium?
This finding often results from molding during vaginal birth and crosses suture lines.
What is caput succedaneum?
When pressure is applied to the sole, the toes fan outward in this reflex.
What is the Babinski reflex?
These blue-gray pigmented areas are commonly found on the lower back and buttocks.
What are Mongolian spots
This congenital heart screening uses pulse oximetry on the right hand and one foot.
What is Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD) screening?
Three signs that indicate effective breastfeeding.
What are audible swallowing, adequate urine/stool output, and appropriate weight gain?
This finding is caused by bleeding beneath the periosteum, does not cross suture lines, and may increase the risk of jaundice.
What is a cephalohematoma?
This reflex causes a newborn to grasp an examiner's finger placed in the palm.
What is the palmar grasp reflex?
Jaundice appearing within the first 24 hours of life is considered this type
What is pathologic jaundice?
Neonatal Opioid Withdraw Assessment Tool
What is the Eat, Sleep, Console (ESC) assessment?
Breastfed newborns should be fed at least this often during the first few days of life.
What is at least 8 times a day?