Slide 1: Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I’d like to start by introducing myself; I am Edith De Soto a medical assistant in a surgical center who is pursuing a medical degree in cardiology and oncology. Cardiology is the study of diseases and treatments of the heart‚ while oncology is the study and treatment of tumors in the body. For this reason I decided to present to you and inform you of a disease that could surprise us at any given moment. But before we begin let me ask you this: Do you have
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Have you ever wondered where you would be in five‚ maybe ten years? What you would be doing? I never imagined that I would have a set career goal for myself. Most kids are uncertain about what they want in life; however‚ I always knew that my career choice was to be a neonatal nurse. I want to spend my life caring for newborn infants. Growing up‚ I have watched my mother come home from her nursing job and tell me how much she loves caring for other people. It gives her patience‚ more time management
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Neonatal Nurse Without neonatal care millions of pre-term infants would not have a fighting chance. Although the schooling and training to become a neonatal nurse can be extensive‚ it doesn’t have to be. Due to the need for neonatal clinicians many people would choose it for the chance to save an infant’s life‚ the income or because they just simply want to help. First‚ the job of a neonatal nurse is extremely important to a pre-term baby’s life. There are
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Recent breakthroughs in neonatal care might have an indirect effect on low-birth weight For the last 20 years‚ thanks to advances in neonatal technology‚ doctors were able to save babies whose time spent in the womb had to be shortened because of particular problems. Those preterm childbirth also seem to pose a problem of low-birth weight among the babies conceived with the help of neonatal technologies. Low birthweight is a weight of less than 5 pounds‚ 8 ounces‚ low birth weight can cause heart
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Kangaroo Care Brianna Jacobson JCBBRI009 Psychology 2009F 19 March 2015 Dr. Lauren Wild Infants born prematurely or at a low birth weight are at a higher risk for medical and developmental complications than full-term infants. Complications can affect the growing infant and family drastically with problems ranging from chronic lung disease to neurodevelopmental problems (Browne‚ 2003). Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) and health care providers attempt to provide around-the-clock
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My whole childhood has climaxed to this crucial point of my life- my first footsteps into the world of medical science. I soared past elementary‚ middle‚ and high school in the hopes of becoming a professional in the healthcare industry‚ and what were once dreams is now becoming a reality. My general education classes at UCSD have trickled down to more specialized courses particular to my major‚ human biology. I have always appreciated the vastness of the human body and the many ways it can manipulate
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Within my future I plan to be something important in healthcare. I know that I am going to graduate from college with a nursing degree‚ preferably a registered nurse‚ but I want to try and figure out now what that important major is going to be. I have two majors in mind‚ an anesthesiologist or a cardiac surgeon. The two majors are both a well-practiced and are a highly educational field. An anesthesiologist is a physician trained in anesthetics‚ a substance that induces people in order for them
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My dream career is being a Dental Assistant. I’m pursuing that by attending LCTI for Dental Technology. As a senior‚ I have realized that all along‚ the dentistry field has been one of my many interests. Now that I am 17 and graduating in the next couples of months‚ I have decided that the Dental Assistant is the career pathway that I am most interested in and would like to pursue further after graduation. Unlike many children‚ growing up as a child I have always enjoyed going to the dentist office
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repetitive‚ and sometimes the stress of owning your own practice is too much. And of course there is always sticking your fingers in people’s dirty mouths. But the positive aspects by far outweigh the negative. Dentists make a lot of money. And dentistry is considered a very prestigious career. They are also self-employed (unless you work in a
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