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:

A two month infant on nasal cannula at 0.1 Lpm with a large VSD develops tachypnea, tachycardia and poor weight gain.  You recognize that the clinical changes experienced by this infant is most likely related to:

The neonatal nurse practitioner evaluates a newborn hip by flexing the knee and hip, grasps the thigh with the thumb positioned along the inner thigh and adducts the leg while pushing laterally on the upper inner thigh.

A common theme for protecting and meeting parental needs during end of life or difficult conversations about critically ill infants would include:

The nursery nurse has asked you to evaluate a newborn in the mother’s room reporting light brown drainage coming out of the umbilicus. Your exam reveals no erythema surrounding the cord and persistent oozing. You expect this is a/an

You are the NNP called to evaluate an infant in the nursery who is vigorous with history of 9/9 apgars, no other symptoms but the nurse auscultated an abnormal heart rhythm. When placed on an ECG monitor you note an irregular R-R interval. Mother’s history is unremarkable. You suspect this infant has: