1. Nursing Care of newborn

2. Objectives Discuss priorities in the high risk newborn
Compare and contrast the differences with the gestational ages and their physical changes using weeks as your guidelines.
Explain why preterm infants need so much care utilizing the head to toe assessments.

3. Newborn Priorities Initiate respiratory effort
Extra uterine circulation
Fluid and electrolyte balance

4. Newborn Priorities Temperature Radiant heat sources Incubators
Kangaroo care

5. Newborn Priorities Nutritional intake Waste elimination
Infection prevention

6. Post Resuscitation Protocol
S-sugar/ safe care
T-Temperature
A-Airway
B-Blood Pressure
L-Lab work
E-Emotional Support

7. Altered Gestational Age/Birth Weight
Classifications
Term
Preterm
Post term
AGA
SGA
LGA

8. Altered Gestational Age/Birth Weight
Small for gestational age
Causes
Assessment
Whitney on Oct 11, 2000 at 25.5 weeks gestational age weighing one pound ten ounces - just 737 grams.

9. Altered Gestational Age/Birth Weight
Large for gestational age
A woman in Brazil gave birth in January of 2005 to a boy that doctors nicknamed "giant baby." The infant weighed 17 pounds, about the average size of a six-month-old. He was delivered by Caesarean section.

10. Altered Gestational Age/Birth Weight
Preterm infant
Incidence
Causes
Assessment
History
Appearance
Laboratory findings

11. Altered Gestational Age/Birth Weight
The Preterm infant
Potential complications
Anemia
Kernicterus
Persistent patent
Periventricular/intraventricular hemorrhage

12. Altered Gestational Age/Birth Weight
The Preterm infant issues
Temperature
Nutrition
Feeding schedule
Gavage feeding
Formula
Breast milk

13. Altered Gestational Age/Birth Weight
Post term infant
Post term syndrome
Dry cracked skin
Absence of vernix

14. POST TERM

15. Comparison

16. Illness in the Newborn Respiratory distress syndrome Pathophysiology
Assessment
Therapeutic management
Surfactant replacement
Oxygen administration
Ventilation

17. Illness in the Newborn Transient Tachypnea of Newborn (TTN)
Meconium Aspiration Syndrome (MAS)

18. Illness in the Newborn
Hyperbilirubinemia

19. FAS (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome)

20. Maternal Infections Maternal infection Beta-hemolytic, group B strep
Generalized herpes virus
Infant of a diabetic mother
Infant with fetal alcohol syndrome