A High-Cost Outlier Is Where the Total Costs for the Admission

question 68

True/False

A high-cost outlier is where the total costs for the admission exceed the outlier threshold.

Understand the appropriate assessment and care for a newborn with jaundice, including the identification of jaundice in dark-skinned newborns.

Describe the management and parent education for newborns undergoing home phototherapy.

Demonstrate knowledge of compassionate and appropriate responses to parents after the death of a newborn.

Identify and manage the symptoms and treatments of hyperbilirubinemia in newborns.

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Definitions:

Serotonin Reuptake

A process by which neurotransmitters are reabsorbed by the neuron after being released into the synapse, relevant in the treatment of depression.

Chromosomes

Thread-like structures located inside the nucleus of animal and plant cells, made of protein and a single molecule of DNA, carrying genetic information.

DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid, a self-replicating material which is the carrier of genetic information in nearly all living organisms.

Neurotransmitters

Chemical messengers that transmit signals across a chemical synapse, from one neuron (nerve cell) to another 'target' neuron, muscle cell, or gland cell.