You are requested to attend an imminent delivery for a 37-week infant of a mother in labor 20 hours. The labor and delivery nurse reports that there are variable decelerations of fetal heart rate noted on the monitor. You know these are caused by

A former 24-week infant is status post bowel resection that included the ileocecal valve. What long-term condition would you anticipate?

When utilizing an instrument in nursing research that is able to be used repeatedly and produces consistent results, the instrument is demonstrating

The physical finding of “blue berry muffin” spots on the skin is commonly associated with which viral infections?

Which of the following conditions will cause a decreased affinity for oxygen to bind to hemoglobin?

You attended the delivery of a 41-week infant with shoulder dystocia and meconium. You admit the infant and obtain an initial chest x-ray which shows patchy consolidation and pulmonary hyperinflation. This infant is at risk for

A neonate born at 25 weeks is in which stage of lung development?

You are called to evaluate an infant in mother’s room because the nurse noted several unusual markings when giving the first bath. You note four hypo-pigmented leaf-shaped white macules.  This was a spontaneous delivery with membranes ruptured 12 hours, RPR, HIV and Hepatitis B negative.  What do you suspect?

ABO incompatibility is categorized as what type of pathological jaundice in the newborn?

The family centered care consensus model of building clinical competencies to promote the best neurodevelopment of premature infants and family care well-being are focused on: