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Specialties » Care of the Extremely Low Birth Weight Neonate (ELBW)

Care of the Extremely Low Birth Weight Neonate » ELBW (Code 7)

Description

• Physical, Gestational Age, Behavioral and Neurological Assessment
• Delivery Room Management, Stabilization and Transition
• Transport/Transfer
• Thermoregulation
• Fluid and Electrolytes
• Nutrition and Feeding
• Respiratory Management/Oxygenation (e.g. Blood gases, Ventilation)
• Skin Care
• Infection Risks (immaturity, prevention, bundles)

• Neurodevelopment (Structure, function, immaturity)
• Impact of NICU Environment
• Neuroprotective Intentional Caregiving and Promotion of Self-regulation
• Neurobehavioral Alterations and Responses (habituation, state and motor organization)
• Stress and Pain Assessment and Management
• Neuroprotection and Injury Prevention

• Perinatal Management, Maternal Risk Factors During Pregnancy and Obstetric Emergencies that Impact the ELBW neonate
• Cardiac
• Respiratory
• GI/GU
• Hematopoietic
• Infectious Diseases
• Metabolic/Endocrine/Genetic
• Neurologic, Neuromuscular, Skin and Musculoskeletal
• Renal
• Head, Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat
• Pharmacology

• Family Integration
• Trauma Informed Care/Parental Coping and Grieving Process
• End of Life Care/Palliative Care, Viability and legal/ethical issues
• Discharge Planning, Teaching and Follow up
• Risks for motor, cognitive, language delays and expected milestones
• Professional Practice and Team Communication along the continuum of care
• EBP, QI, Research, Data Outcomes, Benchmarking

Keywords

Acute renal failure

Adrenal insufficiency

Airway malacia/stenosis

Anemia

Antibiotic Stewardship

Apnea of prematurity

Behavioral Assessment

Benchmarking

Blood gas interpretation and management

Bone mineralization

Brain and neurosensory development

Brain development

Brain structural and functional immaturity

Breastfeeding support

Bronchopulmonary dysplasia/chronic lung disease

Cardiac

Circadian rhythms

Comfort care

Common drugs

Communication of outcomes - Cognitive

Communication of outcomes - Expected milestones

Communication of outcomes - Language delays

Communication of outcomes - Motor

Communication tools

Compassion fatigue

Continuity/Continuum of care

Cue-based care

Cultural sensitivity

Dislocation of the hip

Disorders of motility related to immaturity

Disorders of suck and swallow

EBP

Effects of humidity, maturity, temperature

Electrolyte monitoring

End of Life Care

Endocrine

Enteral substrates

Ethical principles

Family Integration

Family partnered care

Family support and education

Fluid and electrolyte management

Fluid status

Follow up nursing care

Formula composition and indications

GE reflux

General discharge planning

Genetics

Gestational Age Assessment

GI development and immaturity

GI/GU

Glucose homeostasis

Grieving Process

Habituation

Handling and positioning

Hearing loss

Hemangiomas

Hematopoietic

High output real failure

Hospital acquired infection

Hyperbilirubinemia

Hypotension

Immaturity of the ELBW immune system

Impact of NICU environment

Infection Risks

Infectious Disease

Inguinal hernia

Injury prevention

Inter-professional teamwork

Interpretation of lab values to evaluate nutritional status

Kangaroo Care

Late onset sepsis

Limbic

Lung structural and functional immaturity

Maternal factors that impact the ELBW neonate

Mechanisms and management of heat loss/production

Meningitis

Metabolic

Metabolic bone disease

Metabolic screen interpretation

Mode of Delivery

Motor organization

Movement

MRSA

Musculoskeletal

Necrotizing enterocolitis

Neuro-protective Intentional Caregiving

Neurodevelopment

Neurodevelopmental risks and outcomes

Neurologic

Neurologic Assessment

Neuromuscular characteristics

Neuroprotection

Neurosensory

Neurosensory development

Neutral thermal environment of the ELBW

Neutropenia/Neutrophilia

Newborn screening

Non-initiation of care

Nutrition

Nutritional requirements

Nutritional supplements

Obstetric emergencies

Osteomyelitis

Oxygen delivery and management

Pain and stress effects on the developing brain

Pain and stress non-pharmacological management

Pain and stress pharmacological management

Pain assessment and management

Palliative care

Parent education/training

Parent mental health

Parent teaching

Parental coping

Parental desire for futile care

Parental role attainment

Parental stress responses

Parenteral nutrition

Patent ductus arteriosus

Perforations/Peritonitis

Periventricular leukomalacia

Periventricular/Intraventricular hemorrhage

Pharmacokinetics

Pharmacology

Pharmacotherapeutics

Physical assessment

Physiology of heat production

PIV access

Pneumothorax

Post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus

Posture/Tone

Pre-feeding foundations and strategies

Prenatal consultation

Prevention and management of infection

Prevention of growth failure

Prevention of neonatal morbidities

Prevention of skin breakdown

Process Improvement

Promotion of self-regulation

Pulmonary air leaks

Pulmonary hemorrhage

Pulmonary hypertension

Pulmonary hypoplasia

Pulmonary interstitial emphysema

Quality Improvement

Reflexes

Renal

Renal insufficiency

Renal vein/artery thrombosis

Research

Respiratory

Respiratory distress

Respiratory distress syndrome

Respiratory management

Resuscitation & Stabilization (NRP)

Retinopathy of prematurity

Seizures

Self regulation

Sensory/interaction capabilities

Sepsis evaluation

Septic shock

Shared decision making

Short gut syndrome

Skin care

Skin injuries

Skin structural and functional immaturity

Small Baby Risks Data Outcomes

Stages of grief

State organization

Stress assessment and management

Stress response

Support systems

Surfactant

Thermoregulation

Thrombocytopenia

Thyroid disorders

Timing of umbilical cord clamping

Transition

Transport / Transfer

Trauma Informed Care

UAC access

UTI

UVC access

Ventilation strategies

Viability and Legal/Ethic Issues

Viral and fungal infections

Vocal cord paralysis

Withdrawal of care