Unmeet Need Here at Sacred Heart Hospital there is a dire need for education for the parents of premature and at risk newborns. Premature and at risk newborns must be handled very delicately because they are particularly fragile at this point of their lives. In order for a parent or family member to interact with the newborn they must be taught how because of their fragile state. The nurses are busy making sure the baby receives all the care it need in order to survive, therefore they do not…
of either the mother and or baby may be compromised by omission or denial. Due to diverse personal, cultural, and religious beliefs, confidentiality must also exist in order for the mother to have autonomy about the care she wishes for her and the newborn without outside influences or coercion. Abuse is a problem that may be unintentionally exacerbated with the knowledge of certain privileged information, thus confidentially plays a crucial role for these patients. Although confidentiality is…
terminating the pregnancy? Or shall she continue with the pregnancy and prepare for the birth of a child, whose prognosis is poor? The expectation is that Mariana, her family, and the providers shall come to an agreement about delivery and care of the newborn, while staying consistent with the Catholic Institution’s fundamentals. Dr. Wilson has noted fetal abnormalities via routine ultrasounds. He has…
“pain is whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever the experiencing person says it does.” (p.472). However, what if the person experiencing the pain is an infant? A newborn endures as many as twenty-one painful procedures their first day in the hospital (Pasek & Huber, 2012, p.62). To protect newborn babies from pointless suffering, it is imperative that the nurse advocates for pain relief. Oral sucrose is a non-pharmacological intervention that…
pain evaluations (especially in newborns) very difficult for physicians and parents alike. Even though a baby may cry, writhe, or grimace when in pain (physical signs a doctor examining a baby may notice), these signals may be misleading, as babies exhibit similar behaviors for painless concerns, such as for hunger or simply the need for nestling. Study coauthor Rebeccah Slater of the University of Oxford and her colleagues attempted to accurately determine when a newborn baby is in distress by…
Hospital policy requires meconium testing for all newborns who are suspected of being substance exposed in utero. Substance exposure in utero is of serious concern and is associated with significant perinatal complications for mother and child. In the past, maternal interviews were the primary source of substance use during pregnancy. Maternal interviews can provide health care professionals with critical information although they can be misleading. Not all substance using mothers will willingly…
There are hundreds of diseases in the world that many people do not know about. Cretinism is a disease that many people have not heard of, including myself, before I started to research it. Granted the disease is not very common and mainly occurs in newborns, it is important that everyone knows what it is and how it occurs. Cretinism is a disease of the thyroid gland also more commonly known as congenital hypothyroidism. The thyroid gland is an endocrine gland located in the anterior part of the…
children previous of her newborn. Her first child had a blood type of O positive and a negative direct anti-globulin test. Her second child had a blood type of O positive as well but, had a positive direct anti-globulin test. After an Elution was done, removing any antibodies attached to the baby’s red blood cells, the second child resulted positive for anti-E and anti-c. He also developed hyperbilirubinemia after birth and responded well to phototherapy. The mother and the newborn…
H “Next to the establishment of the respiration, thermoregulation is most critical to the newborn’s survival rate” (2015, p. 244). Newborns are predisposed to develop hypothermia because of a large body surface area (BSA), blood vessels are close to the skin, and thin layer of subcutaneous fatty tissues. Heat loss in newborns can occur after birth through evaporation, radiation, conduction and convection. Hypothermia can be prevented by doing something as simple as putting the…
Due to the harsh challenges that Arabian women face in attempt of providing the proper nutrition that newborns require in order to thrive, many women are placed under high stress, considered unqualified, and placing their children’s health in addition to theirs at a high risk of morbidity, while in reality they are victims of lacking the proper knowledge to find alternative to feed their infants. The Arabian culture places many challenges and restrictions that contribute to make breastfeeding…