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After a prolonged labor, a woman vaginally delivered a 10 pound, 2 ounce baby girl. In the immediate postpartum period, the nurse would be alert for the development of which complication?

What is one scale the nurse can use to evaluate pain in a newborn or a preterm infant?

When the newborn’s crib was moved suddenly, the nurse noticed that his legs flexed and the arms fanned out, and then both came back toward the midline. The nurse would interpret this behavior as which of the following?

Following delivery, a father asks the nurse about newborn screening tests. The nurse explains that the optimal time for screening test (Guthrie test), like for phenylketonuria, is which of the following?

While assessing the head of a healthy, full-term newborn, the nurse anticipates that the anterior fontanelle is which of the following?

What is one scale the nurse can use to evaluate pain in a newborn or a preterm infant?

A full-term newborn is just born. All the following interventions are important after delivery, but which nursing intervention is important for the nurse to perform first?

A baby has just been admitted into the neonatal nursery. Before taking the newborn’s vital signs, the nurse should warm his or her hands and the stethoscope to prevent heat loss resulting from which of the following?

To reduce the risk of hypoglycemia in a full-term newborn weighing 4,000 grams (8 pounds 8 ounces), what should the nurse do?

To protect newborns from infection while in the nursery, the nurse should plan to do which of the following?