NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course — Lesson 38: Newborn Assessment and Care: Apgar, Vital Signs, Reflexes, Thermoregulation, Jaundice, and Feeding

Sarah Mitchell scores an Apgar, reviews normal newborn vital signs and the distress signs that are not normal, and explains why cold stress leads to hypoglycemia and acidosis. She covers vitamin K, eye prophylaxis, hepatitis B, cord care, physiologic versus pathologic jaundice with phototherapy care, feeding numbers, caput versus cephalohematoma, circumcision and safe sleep teaching, with scenarios on early jaundice and a cold, jittery newborn.

Lesson 38 of 125 in the NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.

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