Neonatology is an important role in the hospital when a baby is born. A neonatal nurse takes care of the sick newborns till they are okay to be discharged from the hospital. The sick newborns have to be placed in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)‚ they are placed in the NICU for reasons such as they are born prematurely‚ complications during the birth‚ or they show signs of problems during the first couple of days after birth. Although the neonatal nurse takes care of sick newborns their time
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Tiffany Martinez Ms. Grgas Child Development 26 September 2014 Cultural Beliefs Traditional practices in Kenya capital of Na Obi pregnant woman can’t eat certain amounts of food. This is because they don’t want to have an oversized baby or encounter problems during deliver the things they don’t eat are bananas or eggs. Usually the mothers of these pregnant woman encounter them on what foods to avoid and the ones to eat. Thousands of woman in Kenya hold these cultural beliefs and practices
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Illicit Drug Use in Pregnancy COM 220 August 1st‚ 2010 Illicit Drug Use in Pregnancy Studies in 2008 have shown that the amount of babies born to drug addicted mothers has almost doubled since 2003. Pregnant mothers have been using drugs during pregnancy for thousands of years without knowing the effects they can have on their unborn baby. Even though some people claim that illicit drugs used by pregnant mothers cause no harm to the fetus‚ there have been studies that show otherwise. Cocaine
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Rylee Spencer English 10 Mrs. Spratling January 3‚ 2017 Outlaws There are many outlaws that have gone throughout world history. Doc Holliday‚ Diamond Field Jack‚ and Black Jack Ketchum are three well known outlaws that have shaped American History. All three outlaws came from different backgrounds but all leading to a life of fighting and thievery. They all lived to a moderate age for the mid 1800s to the mid 1900s‚ they either died by being taken to the law and being hung‚ or by being shot.
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kids with speech and/or language disorders.” (Speech Language Therapy‚ 2012) The major roles of a speech therapist are to identify children’s developmental speech and communication problems. They access in treating problems that are caused due to cleft palate or disorders and implementing and revising treatment programmes. They also support children by working one to one with them‚ calculating the children’s progress and most importantly maintaining confidentiality. Lastly‚ speech therapists support
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(Figure 1)‚ a normal size of tongue but in the setting of a very small jaw that the tongue looks large tends to fall a downward or backward-positioned toward the throat (glossoptosis)(Figure 2) can act as an obstruction and result in a U-shaped cleft palate presented at birth (birth defect) (Redett‚ 2008). This malformation development occurs in the womb and approximately one in 8‚500 to 14‚000
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Table 21-2 SUMMARY OF NEWBORN ASSESSMENT *MCH pages 479-473 | NORMAL | ABNORMAL (POSSIBLE CAUSES) | NURSING CONSIDERATIONS | Initial AssessmentAssess for obvious problems first. If infant is stable and has no problems that require immediate attention‚ continue with complete assessment. | Vital Signs | TemperatureAxillary: 36.5– 37.5°C (97.7 – 99.5°F).Axilla is preferred site. | Decreased (cold environment‚ hypoglycemia‚ infection‚ CNS problem). Increased (infection‚ environment to warm)
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THE BENEFITS OF BREASTMILK AND BREASTFEEDING Breastmilk is much more than simply nutrition – it is a unique and complex fluid containing well over a hundred documented constituents. Many scientific papers examining its biochemical properties have been written and so many discoveries about its properties are constantly being made that it is difficult to keep up with them all. Breastmilk is considered to be a “living fluid”‚ for in addition to its nutrient content it contains antibacterial‚ antiviral
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airstream • the air escapes over the central line of the tongue • shaped by such movable organs as the tongue‚ the lips and the velum A description of vowel-like sounds must include: • the part of the tongue which is raised (FRONT‚ CENTRAL BACK) and the degree of raising (HIGH‚ MID‚ LOW) • the kind of aperture formed by the lips (SPREAD‚ NEUTRAL‚ ROUNDED) • the position of the soft palate (ORAL‚ NASAL) Difficulties of description: • position of the tongue – tactile sensation is not helpful > normally
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Prenatal genetic testing‚ also known as prenatal diagnosis or prenatal screening‚ tests for diseases and disorders in a developing fetus or embryo. It is typically used for detecting Down’s syndrome or other chromosome abnormalities‚ spina bifida‚ cleft palate‚ Tay-Sachs disease‚ sickle cell anemia‚ thalassemia‚ cystic fibrosis‚ muscular dystrophy‚ and fragile X syndrome. There have been multiple ways to test for these diseases/disorders over the years‚ including (but not inclusive to) amniocentesis
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