A group of nurses are reviewing information about the changes in the newborn’s lungs that must occur to maintain respiratory function. The nurses demonstrate understanding of this information when they identify which event as occurring first? 

The nurse institutes measures to maintain thermoregulation based on the understanding that newborns have limited ability to regulate body temperature because they: 

When assessing a newborn’s reflexes, the nurse strokes the newborn’s cheek, and the newborn turns toward the side that was stroked and begins sucking. The nurse documents which reflex as being positive?

The nurse observes the stool of a newborn who is being bottle-fed. The newborn is 2 days old. What would the nurse expect to find? 

The slight overlapping of cranial bones or shaping of the fetal head during labor is called:

The nurse places a newborn with jaundice under the phototherapy lights in the nursery to achieve which goal? 

During an assessment, the nurse notes that the patient has been unable to urinate properly since giving birth and is bleeding more than expected. The nurse suspects which condition?

A nurse is preparing a class on newborn adaptations for a group of soon-to-be parents. When describing the change from fetal to newborn circulation, which information would the nurse include? Select all that apply. 

Assessment of a newborn’s head circumference reveals that it is 34 cm. The nurse would suspect that this newborn’s chest circumference would be: 

The nurse prepares to assess a newborn who is considered to be large-for-gestational-age (LGA). Which characteristic would the nurse correlate with this gestational age variation?