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Miami Dade College

School of Nursing
Newborn Worksheet

1. What is the correct order for suctioning an infant’s airway with the bulb syringe? Why?

2. Why is it particularly important that the infant’s head be dried promptly?

3. What added assessments and interventions should the nurse do if an infant has a slightly less
than normal temperature?

4. Heat loss causes increased oxygen and glucose consumption in the newborn. Complete the
following chart to improve your understanding of the mechanism of heat loss and ways to
prevent health loss.
How heat loss occurs Ways to prevent
Evaporation

Conduction

Convection

Radiation

5. Complete the chart of common newborn medications

Vitamin K Erythromycin ointment Hepatitis B immunization
Why is it given

How is it given

How much do you

give

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6. Differentiate caput succedaneum from cephalhematoma.

Cephalhematoma Caput succedaneum

Collection of
Time of onset

Time of resolution

Differentiate by location

7. State the importance of colostrum for the new infant

8. What’s are the normal rages for neonatal vital signs

Heart rate =
Respirations =
Temp Rectal =
Temp Auxiliary =

9. Brown fat is used to:

a. Maintain temperature
b. Facilitate digestion
c. metabolize glucose
d. conjugate bilirubin

10. The primary purpose of surfactant is to

a. Maintain normal blood glucose levels.

b. keep lung alveoli partly open between breaths.
c. inhibit excess erythrocyte production.
d. stimulate passage of the first meconium stool.

11. One minute after the delivery the L/D nurse notes: the infant HR is 70, the body pale, the baby
whimpers and grimace when suctioned and the arms and legs are partially flexed. What is the
APGAR score?

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Match the Reflexes with the definition

a. rooting
b. sucking
c. tonic neck
d. grasping
e. moro
f. babinski

12. When the baby's mouth or lips is touched, the baby will begin to suck.

__________

13. This reflex begins when the corner of the baby's mouth or cheek is stroked or touched; The
baby will turn his/her head and open his/her mouth to follow in the direction of the stroking.

___________

14. Stroking the palm of a baby's hand causes the baby to close his/her fingers

___________

15. Elicited by lifting the baby slightly above the crib and then suddenly lowered; in response the
baby extends out the arms and legs, cries, then pulls the arms and legs back in.

___________

16. When the sole of the foot is firmly stroked from the heel upward towards the ball, the big toe
dorsiflexes and the other toes fan out.

____________

17. When the newborn is supine and the head is turned to one side, the arm on that same side
stretches out and the opposite arm bends or flexes up at the elbow.

____________

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Fill in the blank

18. ______________ is the whitish cheese like substance that covers the fetus in utero. It
lubricates the skin of the newborn.

19. _______________is exposed sebaceous glands; Appear as white raised spots on the face
and especially the nose.

20. ___________________ is a type of birth mark with macular areas of bluish black or gray blue
pigmentation on the back and buttocks' area.

21. _________________blueness discoloration of the skin of the hands and feet.

22. ______________makes the top of the infant's head look elongated, stretched out, or even
pointed at birth

Explain in your own words

23. A mother calls you in the room as shows you bloody spots in her baby’s diaper. How would
you explain this?

24. Explain the newborn fontanels. How many are there? What are they shaped like? When do
they close? How should the feel? What does depressed or bulging usually indicate?

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