Systematic, accurate, ongoing physical assessment is a critical component of managing neonates across all settings. The purposes of neonatal assessment include identifying influences of the prenatal environment, evaluating transition to extrauterine life, recognizing early the subtle indicators or changes that may be harbingers of serious problems, and evaluating a plethora of clinical findings to distinguish between normal variations and problems. This book is an excellent resource for beginning and experienced practitioners on gestational assessment, neurologic assessment, neonatal history, and assessment of the dysmorphic infant, as well as the systemic evaluation of individual body systems. Chapters also discuss behavioral and pain assessment, including the use of specific tools with various groups of infants ranging from term to extremely preterm infants. The book addresses implications of antepartum testing and intrapartum for the newborn. The numerous tables, figures, and illustrations, including many color illustrations and photographs, are a major strength that enhances the book’s usefulness as a clinical resource. A glossary provides a quick resource for looking up definitions of findings and techniques. The chapter authors clearly identify areas for assessment, provide the scientific basis for and rationale underlying its various assessment techniques, review standard terminology, and define and exemplify normal and abnormal findings and common variations. The book is both an excellent teaching tool and a resource for anyone who does newborn examinations, including nurses, neonatal and pediatric nurse practitioners, nurse-midwives, physicians, and therapists. It should be a core text for any program preparing individuals for advanced practice roles in perinatal and neonatal care. Individual practitioners have varying degrees of familiarity and comfort with the many areas of newborn assessment. This text can serve as an in-depth, systematic introduction to the major components of, and techniques for evaluating all the major systems. The free supplements include a Continuing Nursing Education Test (13.6 contact hours) that epires July 31, 2021.