GENDER AND RACE Sign of Distress -Labored breathing -Wincing -Sweatiness -Trembling Apparent State of Health -Robust - Acute or Chronically ill - Frail Skin Color - Palor -Cyanosis - Jaundice Sexual Development - Facial hair -Voice change -Breast development Weight‚ by appearance or measurement -Ectomorph -Endomorph -Mesomorph Posture and Gait - sway back - Lumbar Lordosis Gait - spastic - scissors - prepulsive - Steppage - Waddling Arm and leg on one side (hemiplegic)
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which is instinctive and are born with. Behaviour that is inherited or passed on through genes. Things such as reflexes are innate behaviour; a reflex is an involuntary automatic response to a certain stimulus. Those who believe we are shaped by nature are known as nativists. Examples of innate behaviour are the moro or falling reflex‚ the moro reflex is any sudden movement that affect the baby’s neck‚ giving them the feeling of falling or being dropped. The baby’s innate reaction to this is to
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automatic responses. E.g. sucking a nipple or a bottle. Grasp reflex is when a baby automatically grasps a finger if it is placed in their hand and also a startle reflex which is when a baby will hear a noise and clench their fists and move their head towards the noise. Walking and standing reflex is when baby is held upright and automatically make stepping movements following this is the moro reflex which is known as the falling reflex which is when a baby falls they know that they should grip something
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babies will automatically grab things that touch the palm of their hands and finally they will try to stiffen their legs when you hold them as if they are standing. I feel many of the reflexes are inborn into babies. I noticed the moro reflex and rooting reflex in particular with my three children‚ that although these reflexes seem to get less and less over a short period of time‚ they seem to be re-learnt again in later life. Babies of a very young age‚
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order to survive. To ensure a baby can feed they have a swallowing and sucking reflex. To help a baby find food they move their head to look for a nipple or teat if their cheek or mouth is touched this is called rooting. Babies have a grasping reflex by where they will automatically grab whatever is placed in their hand if it touches their palm. If there is a loud sound or bright light babies will perform their startle reflex‚ they will raise their arms and clench their fists. If a baby is held with
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Health Assessment Study Notes Therapeutic Nurse-Client Relationship: Components of the Nurse-Client Relationship – Trust Respect Professional Intimacy Empathy Power Four Standard Statements – Therapeutic communication Client-centered care Maintaining boundaries Protecting client from abuse Caring Care: C – Center: prepare for intentional caritas process) A – Assess: the immediate picture – scan the client‚ take a read on the situation – CABD‚ behaviour appropriate‚ pain‚ red
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act on visceral organs of the body‚ whereas somatic reflexes involve skeletal muscle stimulation. Both types of reflexes are put into effect via the nervous system. (1) The Patellar reflex‚ or Knee-Jerk reflex‚ is used to test the nervous tissue in the spinal cord from L2-L4. The patellar reflex is known as a “reflex arc”. It is a negative feedback circuit that is made of three components. The first is a sensory‚ or afferent neuron which takes in information from a sensory stimulus‚ and translates
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by the emergency room physician‚ Samuel is found to have right hemiparesis and diminished pinprick and two-point discrimination on the right side of his head and arm. His deep tendon reflexes are brisk on the right and there is a positive Babinski reflex on the right. He has difficulty articulating answers to the questions he is asked‚ speaking only a few words and frequently responding with just a verb or a noun. His ability to respond to complicated verbal commands‚ whether spoken or written‚ is
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behaviour is inborn‚ inherited in our genes‚ unchangeable behaviour such as a reflex; a uncontrollable‚ involuntary movement. For example when an eyelid will automatically close when a puff of wind is blown into it or the palmer grasp‚ a baby will automatically close its hand and hold any object that stimulates its palm. Babies are born with numerous innate reflexes. These primitive reflexes include‚ The rooting reflex – when the corner of a babies mouth is stroked it will turn toward the stimulus
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involuntary movements from a specific stimulus such as : the rooting reflex – the newborn will move its head towards anything that strokes its cheek or mouth‚ sucking reflex – this causes the newborn to suck anything that touches the root of their mouth‚ walking reflex – when the soles of their feet touch a flat surface they will attempt to walk by placing one foot infront of the other and the moro reflex – the trigger of this reflex can be a loud noise which startles the baby and their arms and legs
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