Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

Patient is a newborn baby girl, 2 days old, in bassinet in mother’s room, no monitors, crying. Mother is standing next to the baby. Participant is informed via EMR progress notes on VR tablet that patient is newborn baby with fussiness overnight and poor feeding.

Learning Objectives:

1. Gather brief history
2. Evaluate newborn by checking vitals, examinations, heelstick blood glucose
3. Calm newborn
4. Obtain social history such as drug use or domestic violence
5. Educate on possible NAS
6. Report findings to MD via SBAR format