Newborn Care: The First 6 Weeks

Core Competencies Covered

  • Normal newborn physiology and adaptation
  • Comprehensive newborn examination
  • Gestational-age assessment
  • Growth and development
  • Newborn screening
  • Preventive newborn care
  • Jaundice
  • Infection
  • Congenital abnormalities
  • Feeding and weight assessment

Skills Introduced, Practiced & Initially Verified

  • Perform a complete newborn examination
  • Obtain newborn vital signs
  • Perform gestational-age assessment
  • Assess newborn weight and growth
  • Recognize abnormal newborn findings
  • Assess feeding and hydration
  • Provide newborn-care education
  • Determine when pediatric consultation or referral is indicated

Professional Standards Alignment
MEAC/NARM: 6.1–6.32
Additional Alignment: MANA newborn-care competencies; NARM Well-Baby Care domain
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