Newborn Terminology
Swelling of the newborns head that resolves in 3-5 and crosses suture lines is called?
Caput
Where do we give a newborn IM injections?
Vastus Lateralis
What is thermoregulation?
What is the process of maintaining core body temperature
When is preterm birth?
What is prior to 37 weeks
What items do you need for giving a baby a bath?
What is a washcloth, towel, soap, diaper, clothing
When the umbilical cord becomes wrapped around the fetus' neck
nuchal cord
How long does it take for an infant to start making its own vitamin K?
What is about a week
How does the nurse measure length and head circumference?
What is length- measure from crown to feel of foot and head- measure at greatest diameter (occipital to frontal).
Head 32-36.8cm (12.6- 14.5in)
Length 45-55cm (18-22in)
What does SGA and AGA stand for?
What is small for gestational age and appropriate for gestational age.
What is the main concern with the umbilical cord when giving a baby a bath?
What is NO BATHS until cord falls off
What is a blueness of the extremities
What is acrocyanosis
What is the recommended dosage schedule for Hepatitis B immunization?
What is at birth, 1 month, and 6 months.
What are pain cues seen in a newborn face?
Brows furrowed, eyes forcibly close and mouth open, squarish.
What do nurses give babies to prevent eye infections?
Erythromycin
How many times should you bathe a baby each week?
What is 2-3 times.
What is a traumatic hematoma that occurs underneath the skin, in the periosteum of the infants skull?
cephalohematoma
What do you write when labeling a medication?
name of patient, medication name, drug dosage, route, initials
What are behavioral responses to pain in the newborn?
Occurs in neonates who weight above the 90th percentile or more than 4,000g (8.8lb).
What is Large for gestational age (LGA). Macrosomic.
Do you wash a baby from toe to head or head to toe?
What is always head to toe.
What is a type of birthmark caused by the pigment of the skin?
What is Mongolian spots
What does my baby need Hep B?
What is to provide protection against Hepatitis B which may cause liver inflammation.
What is moro reflex?
What is when you lay the baby down quick and they throw their arm up like they are trying not to fall or the become startled by a loud noise.
A newborn who is born after 42 weeks gestation and often has placental degeneration and uteroplacental insufficiency.
What is Postmature infant.
Special considerations for using a wash cloth during a bath?
What is never use the same wash cloth for the face and the bottom.