The only thing every doctor agreed on was that I needed to stop nursing my son. They had various reasons behind their recommendations, he was allergic to my milk (not possible as he would have died before he left the hospital), I was not producing enough milk, I did not know how to breastfeed…
Agricultural bacteria, fertilizers and manure that is distributed throughout fields causes a rise in the groundwater’s concentration that exceeds the max containment level for intake. These excess levels of nitrate found in water are extremely hard on the human body, and can be lethal in infants (Holme). Mixing water with formula to feed a baby is a perfect example of how nitrites can enter an infant’s immature digestive system. In 1999, a 3-week old in Wisconsin suffered from methaemoglobinaemia, also known as “blue baby disease”.…
Yes, I do feel these three sites were useful. It’s easy to navigate and compare hospitals and user-friendly. It gave some great facts. If I was a patient I would have to choose Greenville memorial. This is they are more experience than Mary black and have seen a wide field of patients.…
WIC Impact Reflection I. Date, time, place, setting. Purpose, focus of care This clinical took place on November 21st at the WIC clinic in Rock Valley, Iowa. The purpose of this clinic is to create partnerships with women, infants, and children in the community with the goal of meeting their individual nutritional needs.…
I, felt that the Mayo clinic met the human needs of: Self actualization, physiological, safety, and social needs. While, the Cleveland clinic met the human needs of: Physiological, social, safety, self actualization, and esteem needs. The Mayo clinic website…
What are the components of a well-child check for this 3-month old infant? During the baby's early months, parents are curious and ask a lot of questions about their babies. When this three month old female is brought to the clinic, weight, length and head circumference should be checked and plot in the child's growth chart. A complete head to toe assessment is done.…
1 John Xuan Dinh RMI 2101 Prof. Wilkins Fall 2016 Homework Assignment 5 20 Points A. What is the ACA? Explain in detail the purpose of the law and how it is intended to operate. What are the key features of the ACA?…
This week I was at the Vine one day, and I also started my clinical at the Health Department. For the Vine Clinic, I did a three siblings 72 hours intake. They were all boys. I felt bad for those boys for the difficult environment they were living in. Those boys’ parents are currently not allowed to visit them due the verbal abuse and domestic violence.…
What is premature birth? A premature birth is a birth that takes place more than three weeks before the baby is due. In other words, a premature birth is one that occurs before the start of the 37th week of pregnancy. Normally, a pregnancy usually lasts about 40 weeks. Premature birth gives the baby less time to develop in the womb.…
The method for a safe transferring of sick neonates was also upgraded. As a result a significant drop in the mortality rate of these health care issues pre-cited were observed such as: perinatal rate from 27.4 to 21. 5 in three years, fetal mortality from 14.1 to 11.16, early neonatal mortality from 13.5 to 10. The training of introducing evidence based practice into…
visits during the 1st trimester. These appointments are the most critical appointments women need to attend. They help to promote proper nutrition, do and donts of pregnancy, harmful risk factors, healthy lifestyles, and make certain you get a genuine checkup of your medical history. So, for many women to miss out on these important visits shows that they did not equip and prepare themselves for the proper care and getting the necessary information about prenatal vitamins, calorie intake and risks associated with certain actions if they missed a lot of important appointments in the first trimester. It is essential to talk to your healthcare provider during the vital first month of pregnancy to ensure that your baby is healthy, your baby is growing properly, and alleviate conditions that could result from lack of…
Since Beauchamp and Childress wrote The Principles of Biomedical Ethics in 1977, patient autonomy, justice, non-maleficence and beneficence have been accepted as the four major medical principles (Murgic, 2015). In my opinion, autonomy is the hardest principle to implement especially in end-of-life care. I am reflecting on the Charlie Gard case where a healthy baby boy was born and it was soon discovered he had a rare genetic mutation that affected his brain, his musculature and most other major organs. The health care team reviewed the potential outcomes for this baby and decided that the best option was to allow him to “die with dignity”, remove life support and not pursue any untested experimental treatment. This could have been the end…
Fetal circulation of blood is much different than that of newborns or adults because a fetus is still receiving nutrients, oxygen and blood from the mother’s placenta, so the placenta does a lot of the work that later on the lungs will take over. There are also other organs that are not fully developed within the fetus and therefore cannot be used or circulated with blood yet, because of this there are specific vessels that direct blood to other areas that in a newborn and adult will not go to. When this circulation first begins it is due to the fetus receiving oxygenated blood through the umbilical vein, that came directly from the mother’s placenta. The blood then travels to the inferior vena cava rather than the liver where it wants to go;…
Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) is one of the leading causes of blindness amongst children. ROP is prevalent amongst infants who do not complete the full gestation period, are underweight, weighing less than 1250g and are not completely developed. ROP seems to be CO-related with low gestation age, low birth weight, and prolonged exposure to supplemental oxygen in incubators herein we explore and discuss Retinopathy of Prematurity in its entirety, its classification, its causes, and risk factors, its treatment, and prevention. Retinopathy of prematurity is a vasoproliferative eye diseases (Chen H, 2015: ) that affects premature infants who have not completely finished the gestation period.…
W1 Assignment 2 Discussion Question #1: What are the sources of pediatric primary care in the United States? Are these sources sufficient for providing health-care services to the pediatric population? Why or why not? Pediatric sources of primary care can be in the provided in many different practice settings. From the conventional pediatrician’s office or primary care doctor’s offices to rural health clinics, community clinics, health departments, schools, and in some cases emergency departments or urgent care centers.…