The nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit receives report from the Labor and Delivery nurse about a full-term neonate and learns the patient’s Apgar scores were 0-0-1-5 at 1, 5, 10, and 15 minutes of life, respectively. How does the nurse interpret this information?
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