Medications
This vaccine is given to babies to prevent hemorrhaging or bleeding complications
what is vitamin K injection?
Treatment of choice for bilirubin
What is phototherapy?
Describe the usual cry of a baby with NAS
What is a high pitched, shrieking cry
When is a baby considered premature
A newborn is at risk for hypoglycemia if they have a mother who has what health condition?
What is diabetes.
This medication is an eye ointment given to newborns to prevent eye infections
what is erythromycin?
What percentage of full- term newborns get jaundice (hyperbilirubinemia)?
What is 60%.
Score chart that monitors amount of morphine baby has received and the length of term to wean baby off the drug.
What is the Finnegan scale?
Because of the premature infant's decreased immune functioning, what nursing diagnosis should the nurse include in a plan of care for a premature infant?
What is risk for infection
Name 2 signs and symptoms of hypoglycemia in a newborn at risk
What is lethargy and jitteriness
This vaccine is given to newborns to prevent transmission of Hepatitis B virus from mother to infant
what is Hepatitis B Immunoglobulin
Those who are at greater risk for Jaundice.
What is Asian, Native American, & Hispanic?
A mother’s prenatal cocaine use places the newborn/infant at an increased risk for what?
What is sudden infant death (SID)
Premature babies struggle the most with what body system
What is respiratory
In a newborn at risk with symptomatic hypoglycemia in what 2 ways should it be treated
what is frequent breast or formula feedings or dextrose gel massaged into the buccal mucosa
How many doses of Hep B vaccine
What is 3
Hyperbilirubinemia makes the skin and sclera what color?
what is yellow
Name three symptoms of NAS
What is irritability, weight loss, and seizures
In the assessment of a preterm infant, the nurse notices continued respiratory distress even though oxygen and ventilation have been provided. The nurse should suspect:
What is shock or hypovolemia
Hypoglycemia in a neonate is defied as blood glucose value below
what is 35 to 45mg/dL
What thigh does the Vitamin K injection usually go in
What is the left thigh
What neurological disorder can occur if unconjugated bilirubin is left untreated?
what is kernicterus
The scoring system used to determine how much morphine babies withdrawing from opioids need?
What is the Finnegan Scale
A nurse gives premature infant with respiratory distress syndrome receives artificial surfactant. Parents ask the nurse that what is the purpose of surfactant therapy
What is improving the ability of your baby’s lungs to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide
Babies with hypoglycemia are at risk for _________ disorders if left untreated
What is neurological/brain disorders