during my nursing career – the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). My NICU hospital experience occurred on Sunday‚ March 26‚ 2017 at the Honor Health Scottsdale Shea center. My nurse and I were assigned to two premature infants – a 4-week-old female and an 8-week-old male. The infant I decided to do my assignment on was the 4-week-old female. She was born on 02/20/2017 at 25 weeks and 4 days to a G4P1 mother. Her birth weight was 1 pound 11 oz and her current weight is 2 pounds 14 ounces. She is received
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combination of family groupings‚ continuity of care‚ primary caregiving‚ and rich partnerships with families enhance healthy infant development and learning in the context of infant care. It is very important that an infant develops a relationship with at least one primary caregiver for social and emotional development to occur normally. The attachment theory suggests that infants‚ toddlers and adults need time to create positive emotional bonds with one another. The transition between home and school
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on the family. Objectives Recognition of the unique psychological tasks and stressors of NICU families Description of assessment strategies for families in crisis Discussion of the impact on and interventions for successful family-infant bonding in NICU Definition of Crisis Temporary disequilibrium A problem or transitional phase so stressful that normal
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Introduction: Kangaroo care is defined as the way of “holding a preterm or full term infant so that there is skin-to-skin contact between the infant and the person holding it. The baby‚ wearing only a diaper‚ is held against the parent’s bare chest. Kangaroo Care (also Kangaroo Maternal [Mother] Care or Skin-to-Skin Contact and Breastfeeding) is a method used to restore the unique mother-infant bond following the sudden separation during the birth experience particularly in premature births”(
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The way a parent cares and tends to their infant may affect the child’s intellectual development. The book Child Care and Child Development contains information and studies about child care. For instances‚ if you abuse your child this can lead for a child not to communicate right away. This affects their intellectual thought process by not letting or helping a child further their learning because of being abused‚ another example in this text is not having a relationship with a child can affect their
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in infancy? Briefly describe these milestones. How are motor‚ sensory‚ and perceptual skills developed in infancy? During infant physical development is the progress of synaptogenesis and subsequent pruning. From time an infant is born until it is 4 its brain mass quadruples and so do the number of dendrites and synapses (Boyd & Bee‚ 2006). A newborn infant already has an almost completely developed medulla and midbrain‚ but its cortex is very immature. During the first few years the cortex
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Over the first few months of life‚ nearly all of an infant’s perceptual abilities improve dramatically. One of the most important perceptual abilities is to be able to decide accurately how far away a person or object is. This is very valuable as infants move around‚ because they are likely to fall and hurt themselves if they do not know how far away various objects and obstacles are. This depth and distance perception allows us to change 2D information from the retina‚ into 3D information. We achieve
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can meet the baby’s basic needs. •What the infant is trying to understand and what skills the infant is trying to master. •What babies can learn that will facilitate their future growth. •Ways parents can support their children’s efforts to learn and to become competent. Copyright Harriet Heath‚ Ph.D. 2010 in consultation with Dana McDermott To introduce you to infancy the following video is of a baby having a massage. It introduces you to infants and to a procedure that can be very powerful
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early childhood. Children quickly learn a wide range of emotions and when to express certain emotions to communicate with their caregivers and also learn how to discriminate between different emotions. A study done by Paul Ekman et al.‚ showed that infants are able to make almost all the same muscle movements used by adults to express emotions (7). There are some emotions referred to as basic emotions. Basic emotions are characterized by typical facial expressions‚ a physiological change‚ and an accompanying
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prevent or reduce injuries while children are in my care I check the rooms complete and by checking the care environment both inside and outside and supervising children at all times. Infants Are placed on their backs when they are sleeping the crib is free of soft materials or other that could cause suffocation. Mobil Infants Are kept safe by making sure that there isn’t anything that is small enough they could put in their mouth and swallow toys are checked daily for broken or loose parts. Toddlers Are
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