Physical Assessment of the Newborn: A Comprehensive Approach to the Art of Physical Examination / Edition 6

by Ellen P. Tappero DNP, RN, NNP-BC, Mary Ellen Honeyfield DNP, RN, NNP-BC

Overview

“The text is… a core text for any program preparing individuals for advanced practice roles in perinatal and neonatal care, and it should be a resource in every setting providing care to neonates. At all levels of practice, it serves as a convenient reference to normal parameters, common variations, and less commonly seen abnormalities.”

--Susan Tucker Blackburn, RN, PhD, FAAN

Author of Maternal, Fetal, and Neonatal Physiology: A Clinical Perspective

From the Foreword

The newly revised, 25th Anniversary Edition of this definitive publication on neonatal care continues to illustrate how to systematically and accurately gather assessment data and interpret results. Because even normal newborns feature a tremendous range of physical variation, subtle signs that indicate internal malformations or syndromes may escape notice without a proper assessment. Many problems in the neonate can be noticed early by an astute nurse, nurse practitioner, or physician with honed assessment skills, long before electronic monitors or other equipment can detect them.

Physical Assessment of the Newborn, Sixth Edition addresses the physical, physiologic, neurologic, and behavioral implications of a thorough assessment, and explains how healthcare providers can reduce the risks associated with the transition to extrauterine life and the neonatal period. Grounded with a scientific basis and rationale, each system assessment represents the most up-to-date clinical content. Because assessment skills are such an integral aspect of practice, many individuals take them for granted, yet all health professionals who perform newborn examinations, including nurses, neonatal and pediatric nurse practitioners, nurse-midwives, physicians, and therapists can benefit from the essential content presented in this book, as well as students preparing for advanced practice roles in neonatal care.

New to the Sixth Edition:

• Provides clinical updates throughout
• Presents an Enhanced Art Program
• Offers an all-new chapter on the Opioid-Dependent Neonate
• Includes an Image Bank and Power Points

Key Features:

• Addresses all key aspects of newborn assessment
• Provides a well-organized evaluation of individual body systems
• Assist practitioners in identifying infant state, behavioral clues, and signs of pain
• Examines the tremendous range of variation among newborns of different gestational ages
• Provides Antepartum Tests and Intrapartum Monitoring
• Written in an easy-to-read, user-friendly style
• Contains tables, figures, and numerous full color photos and illustrations

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826174437
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	08/10/2018
Edition description:	Comprehens
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	988,497
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Contents

Contributors

Foreword Susan Tucker Blackburn

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. PRINCIPLES OF PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT

Mary Ellen Honeyfield, DNP, RN, NNP-BC

2. RECORDING AND EVALUATING THE NEONATAL HISTORY

Kimberly Horns LaBronte, PhD, NNP-BC, FAANP

3. GESTATIONAL AGE ASSESSMENT

Carol Wiltgen Trotter, PhD, RN, NNP-BC

4. SKIN ASSESSMENT

Catherine L. Witt, PhD, RN, NNP-BC

5. HEAD, EYES, EARS, NOSE, MOUTH, AND NECK ASSESSMENT

Patricia J. Johnson, DNP, MPH, RN, NNP

6. CHEST AND LUNG ASSESSMENT

Debbie Fraser, MN, RNC-NIC

7. CARDIOVASCULAR ASSESSMENT

Lyn Vargo, PhD, RN, NNP-BC

8. ABDOMINAL ASSESSMENT

Martha Goodwin, MSN, RN, NNP-BC

9. GENITOURINARY ASSESSMENT

Terri A. Cavaliere, DNP, RN, NNP-BC

10. MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM ASSESSMENT

Ellen P. Tappero, DNP, RN, NNP-BC

11. NEUROLOGIC ASSESSMENT

Pamela Dillon Heaberlin, MS, RN, NNP-BC

12. BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT

Dorothy Vittner, PhD, RN, CHPE

Jacqueline M. McGrath, PhD, RN, FNAP, FAAN

13. ASSESSMENT OF THE DYSMORPHIC INFANT

Michelle Bennett, MSN, APRN, NNP-BC

Susan R. Meier, DNP, APRN, NNP-BC

14. PAIN ASSESSMENT IN THE NEWBORN

Marlene Walden, PhD, APRN, NNP-BC, CCNS, FAAN

Carol Turnage Spruill, MSN, RN, CNS, CPHQ, NTMNC

15. ASSESSMENT OF THE NEWBORN WITH ANTENATAL EXPOSURE TO DRUGS

Carol M. Wallman, DNP, RN, NNP-BC

APPENDIX A: ANTEPARTUM TESTS AND INTRAPARTUM MONITORING

Kimberly Horns LaBronte, PhD, NNP-BC, FAANP

Glossary of Terms

Index