I am currently going to school to become a nurse. My ultimate goal in becoming a nurse is to make a difference in other people’s lives. I want to help those who can no longer help themselves. Pre-natal to birth and the dying developmental concepts would be primary concepts from lifespan development that would contribute to my development in a nursing career. These are two topics that really stuck out to me the most while taking this psychology class. Lifespan development psychology and nursing is far more intertwined than I could ever imagine. These concepts edified me on “things” that I did not understand. Moreover, they allowed me to grasp a better understanding of its relatedness to lifespan development. Thus, I now have a better intricacy for these influential concepts in lifespan
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With the concept pre-natal to birth, as a nurse, I can help educate the parents of the child to ensure that the child receives the proper care that she or he needs. As previously learned, a child’s needs should come first. I can inform the parents of all the disorders and diseases that may occur as a child. Furthermore, I will make it my goal to edify them on sudden death syndrome, preterm birth, birth defects, and much more. As a nurse, I should know “the code of life,” which are basic knowledge of a humans DNA, genes, chromosomes, and more (Feldman, 2014). Germinal, embryonic, and fetal makes up the phases of the “prenatal” period. In the first phase, germinal stage, “the zygote begins to divide and grow in complexity during the first two weeks following conception” (Feldman, 2014). In the embryonic stage the zygote forms into an embryo and the ectoderm, endoderm, and mesoderm forms. The last phase is fetal and in this stage, the child begins to grow
With the concept pre-natal to birth, as a nurse, I can help educate the parents of the child to ensure that the child receives the proper care that she or he needs. As previously learned, a child’s needs should come first. I can inform the parents of all the disorders and diseases that may occur as a child. Furthermore, I will make it my goal to edify them on sudden death syndrome, preterm birth, birth defects, and much more. As a nurse, I should know “the code of life,” which are basic knowledge of a humans DNA, genes, chromosomes, and more (Feldman, 2014). Germinal, embryonic, and fetal makes up the phases of the “prenatal” period. In the first phase, germinal stage, “the zygote begins to divide and grow in complexity during the first two weeks following conception” (Feldman, 2014). In the embryonic stage the zygote forms into an embryo and the ectoderm, endoderm, and mesoderm forms. The last phase is fetal and in this stage, the child begins to grow