Newborn Assessment and Nursing Care

• Includes all newborn content including discharge planning
• Updates on newborn skin care and procedural pain management

Content includes:

• Video on newborn physical assessment and reflexes
• Skin-to-skin care, breastfeeding, and infant nutrition
• Infant self-attachment and the breast crawl, sudden postnatal collapse of the newborn, and updates on safe sleep

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Maine General Hospital

35 Medical Center Parkway

Augusta, ME 04330

8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Instructor:

15 slots available

Registration starts at 7:30 a.m.

All food will be on your own

Topics to Include:

• Discuss issues of patient safety and reduction in the delivery of nursing and medical infant care.
• Identify infants at increased risk for becoming hypothermic.
• Summarize basic evaluation of neonatal respiratory distress.
• Discuss the causes, presentation and initial treatment of hypovolemic, cardiogenic, and septic shock.
• Describe the clinical signs of neonatal sepsis.
• Discuss the crisis that families face when the infant requires care in a neonatal intensive care unit.

You may find it helpful to have a STABLE Program Learner Manual with you during this class.

You may borrow a copy from your facility or purchase one from www.stableprogram.org