2006). The Newborn and Infant Physical Examination (NIPE) is one element of the UK National Screening programme and is offered to all parents for their baby within 72 hours of birth and then repeated again at 6 weeks of age‚ usually by their GP. This role is one of the tasks that has been highlighted where midwives can expand their role (Marshall & Raynor 2010). The trust where I work has recently introduced community clinics where parents can take their baby in order to have the newborn examination
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Assignment 2: Newborn babies SIYING LI 1. Upon seeing her newborn baby for the first time‚ Caroline exclaimed‚ "Why is she so out of proportion?" What observations prompted Caroline to ask this question?" Explain why her baby’s appearance is adaptive. “A reflex is an inborn‚ automatic response to a particular form of stimulation.’(P.g 143) As we know‚ some reflexes have adaptive value. Reflexes help identify normal brain and nerve activity. Caroline perhaps sees her baby lie in a fencing
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OF BASIC NURSING PART C – Nursing Throughout the Life Cycle CHAPTERS: Unit 10 The High-Risk Newborn New Terminology ABO incompatibility anencephaly choanal atresia cleft lip cleft palate congenital endotracheal tube epispadias erythroblastosis fetalis esophageal atresia exstrophy galactosemia high-risk newborn hydrocephalus hyperbilirubinemia hypospadias New Terminology‚ cont. imperforate
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If you have ever spent any significant amount of time around a newborn‚ I am sure you will agree that you can almost see them growing right in front of your eyes. Growth spurts will be the trend throughout childhood‚ the teens and early twenties‚ but from birth to about the age of three is an unparalelled period of growth for the human child. In order to sustain this rapid growth period as well as the growth spurts that follow‚ proper nutrition is essential. Through the mid 20th century‚ as bottle
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THE NEWBORN WITH SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS A preterm infant is usually defined as a live-born infant born before the end of week 37 of gestation; another criterion is a weight of less than 2‚500 grams (5lb 8oz) at birth I. INCIDENCE Occurs approximately 7% of live births of white infants‚ in Afro-American infants the rate is doubled 14% (Thilo & Rosenberg‚ 2003) CAUSES/FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH PRETERM BIRTHS 1. Low socio-economic status 2. Poor nutritional status 3. Lack of prenatal care 4
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NEWBORN NUTRITION Food provides the energy and nutrients that babies need to be healthy. For a baby‚ breast milk is best. It has all the necessary vitamins and minerals. Infant formulas are available for babies whose mothers are not able or decide not to breastfeed. Infants usually start eating solid foods between 4 and 6 months of age. Check with your health care provider for the best time for your baby to start. If you introduce one new food at a time‚ you will be able to identify any foods that
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The purpose of this assignment is to explore the issue surrounding screening and examination of the new born from birth. The article will look at why we perform this examination following birth and will pay particular attention to the examination of the eye. It is documented that the purpose of the first examination of the new born is to confirm normality and to provide reassurance to the parents (MacKeith‚ 1995‚ Hall‚ 1999) and also to identify any apparent physical abnormality (Buston and Durward
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The first sentence in “Evolution and the Primitive Brain of a Newborn” chapter about Lucy and when I read this chapter‚ it was the anniversary of Lucy’s discovery and I found that convenient. In any case‚ as I read‚ I noticed how this chapter is talking about how unfinished humans are when we’re born; our brains aren’t even half developed as most other animals are. This fact interested me because I know with dogs and cats it doesn’t take as long as nine months to deliver offspring. Despite us having
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Abstract The authors (Chiu‚ Anderson‚ & Burkhammer‚ 2005) of the article present all the essential components of the research study. There will be a decrease in temperature in the newborn if having difficulties breastfeeding while having skin-to-skin contact with the mother. That was the inferred hypothesis. The method used to gather the information was a pretest-test-posttest study design and the sample consisted of 48 full-term infants. The key findings showed most infants reached and maintained temperatures
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major concern in today’s society and methods of treatment need to be developed further. This paper will discuss some of the most common neurological disorders in newborns as well as touch on some of the rarer‚ but just as important disorders. Intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) is one of the most common neurological disorders in newborns. It is characterized by bleeding inside or around the ventricles. These are the spaces in the brain containing the cerebral spinal fluid. Intraventricular hemorrhage
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