Neonatal Nursing: Assessment, Developmental Care and Safety

Course Purpose

3 contact hours nursing continuing education course: Neonatal Nursing: Assessment, Developmental Care and Safety.

Continuing Education Credit Designation

This educational activity is credited for 3 contact hours at completion of the activity.

Overview

3 contact hours nursing continuing education course: Neonatal Nursing: Assessment, Developmental Care and Safety.

Objectives

Upon completion of this independent study, the learner will be able to:

1. Describe the routine newborn interventions of the first hour and the timing the retrieved review states for each.
2. Explain what the Apgar score is used for and why delivery-room staff must know the neonatal resuscitation guidelines and equipment.
3. Perform a structured head-to-toe newborn assessment and distinguish common benign skin and scalp findings from findings that require escalation.
4. Describe hip, spine, palate, eye and femoral pulse assessment and the specific findings the retrieved review says should prompt further evaluation.
5. Summarise the delivery-room evidence for preventing hypothermia in preterm and low-birth-weight infants, including which interventions the review supports and how strongly.
6. Explain transitional glucose physiology after cord clamping and why the widely used numerical definition of neonatal hypoglycemia is contested.
7. Identify the infant groups the retrieved review names as most commonly affected by neonatal hypoglycemia and the mechanisms behind each.
8. Differentiate physiologic from pathologic unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia using the retrieved timing and rate criteria, and describe how bilirubin is measured.
9. Compare transient tachypnea of the newborn with respiratory distress syndrome in mechanism, population and course as described in the retrieved reviews.
10. Recognise early- and late-onset neonatal sepsis risk and explain why prompt therapy and antibiotic stewardship are argued for together.
11. Support feeding and kangaroo mother care using the retrieved World Health Organization definitions, conditions and evidence limits.
12. Teach the retrieved safe sleep actions to families and explain the purpose and limits of newborn dried blood spot screening.
13. Assess comfort and distress in an infant who cannot self-report using observational and physiologic indicators, and state what this course does not teach about analgesia.

Who this course is for:

Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, registered nurses, licensed practical or vocational nurses, and other healthcare providers in any setting who want continuing education on Neonatal Nursing: Assessment, Developmental Care and Safety.

Course outline

12 sections · finish in any order across devices

1. 1

   Course overview and learning objectives

2. 2

   Introduction

3. 3

   The First Hour: What Routine Newborn Care Actually Contains

4. 4

   The Head-to-Toe Newborn Examination: Sorting Benign From Reportable

5. 5

   Thermal Care: What the Delivery-Room Evidence Actually Shows

6. 6

   Newborn Glucose: A Contested Number and a Real Physiology

7. 7

   Jaundice: Telling Physiologic From Pathologic

8. 8

   Working Harder to Breathe: Transient Tachypnea and Respiratory Distress Syndrome

9. 9

   Sepsis Recognition and Stewardship at the Same Time

10. 10

    Feeding, Kangaroo Care, Comfort, Safe Sleep and Screening

11. 11

    Nursing Considerations

12. 12

    Conclusion

This Course Satisfies

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