Bilirubin
- Hyperbilirubinemia Standard Operating Procedure: Timing of transcutaneous bilirubin (TCB) checks on well newborns, criteria for obtaining a serum bili, MD notification
Cardiac
- Arrhythmia Postnatal Monitoring
- Critical Congenital Heart Disease screening policy: timing, implementation, interpretation of results and eval of infants routinely screened for Critical Congenital Heart Disease
Fluids/Electrolytes/Nutrition
- Hypoglycemia Guideline_Sep2019: At risk newborn
- Glucose monitoring in otherwise healthy newborn (ie symptomatic baby who is NOT at risk)
General/Screening/Routine Care:
- Care of the Well Newborn Policy 5.2018 Routine newborn care (initial assessment, frequency of vital signs, expectations re timing of bath, administration of vitamin K, erythromycin, hepatitis B vaccine)
- Car Seat Challenge Testing AAP recommended car seat screening in late pre-term infants
- Circumcision policy
- Discharge Against Medical Advice Policy
- Fall (Newborn) Assessment and Management evaluation and monitoring required in the event of an infant fall
- Trisomy 21 Delivery Room and Initial Management
- Well newborn emergency response protocol
- Vitamin K refusal by parents-Guide for clinicians posted Jan 2017
Infectious Disease
- COVID-19 Care and Prevention in the Newborn
- Cytomegalovirus Newborn Testing Guidelines
- GBS & Prevention of Early Onset Sepsis -6.2019: monitoring and evaluation required for an infant exposed to maternal Group B strep in the well newborn nursery
- HIV Infection: Management of HIV+ Mothers and Their Newborns developed by the Infectious Disease group at YNHH based on the most recent perinatal HIV guidelines.
- HSV Management of Asymptomatic Neonates
- Influenza pertaining to mother/newborn updated July 2021
- Zika testing and evaluation guidelines CDC posted Jan 2017
Substance Exposure/Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
- NAS pharmacy guideline: care of the newborn exposed to narcotic at risk for withdrawal, including recommended period of observation and scoring.
- Kratom: Kratom: systemic review
Ortho
*The policies above are all available online for review via the Intranet. Go to “Yale New Haven” tab–> select “Policies”–> click on “Clinical Practice Manual” (third line)–> scroll down to “Women and Infants” and select.
Refusal Forms:
1. Erythromycin eye ointment Refusal Form
Resources: