Infant mortality

members ("Pediatric Nurse Practitioner"). “The very first hospital dedicated to helping and treating children was founded in Philadelphia in 1855.” The intention of this hospital was to provide care for children, and decrease the number of child mortality (“History”). According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the employment of RNs is estimated to grow nineteen percent from 2012 to 2022 (“Summary”). Today, Pediatric Nursing is one of the fastest growing…

Benzene and leukemia Melonie Brown Columbia Southern University Introduction Benzene is a hydrocarbon that is highly flammable. The hydrocarbon is used in many industrial processes. Statistics indicate that it is among the top 20 chemicals that are widely used in different industries across the world. The substance has wide application in oil and gas industry. As a matter of fact, it is used in making various types of lubricants. Benzene can be formed through natural processes such volcano…

were participating in an update education to introduce evidence based into their practice of delivering care. As the perinatal mortality rate was the highest in Europe health care administrators was provided an evidence based practice training to all health care staff with the objective to implement and evaluate how it would help in reducing the rate of perinatal mortality. As a result of the intervention nurses in Macedonian was motivated to implement evidence based into their practice and…

Twenty million women and ten million men will suffer from an eating disorder at some point in their life (NEDA, 2015). Eating disorders are among the most common diseases in young adults and adolescents. Eating disorders are characterized by abnormal eating patterns, unusual fatigue, and weight changes. There are many types of eating disorders. The most commonly known and practiced eating disorder is anorexia nervosa, often referred to as anorexia for short. It is the third most common chronic…

Florence Nightingale paved the way for nursing as a respected profession. Although her legacy is debated, indisputably without her, modern nursing would look significantly different. Nightingale felt a calling to serve mankind through the medical profession. Being part of the elite and wealthy social circle, her family did not support her decision. Their hesitance stemmed from the fact that in Victorian England nurses were known to be drunks and engage in immoral behavior (Cohen, 1984).…

My older daughter was formula fed. After a week of tantrums (mine and hers) and weight loss (all hers), a friend advised me that a baby needed a happy mother more than she needed to be breastfed. That made sense to me. So, I sent my husband to the store for some formula and my daughter gratefully accepted a bottle and began to eat. By the time she was three months old, I couldn't imagine anything else. I loved our life. I liked that my husband could share in the feedings. I liked that I could…

Reduce the rate of fetal deaths at 20 or more weeks of gestation,Reduce the rate of child deaths,Reduce cesarean births among low-risk women,and Increase the proportion of infants who are breastfed. 2. How is low birth weight defined? Gestational age? Identify five risk factors associated with LBW and preterm birth. A infant that weighs less than 5 pounds, 8 ounces is diagnosed as low birthweight. Babies weighing less than 1,500 grams (3 pounds, 5 ounces) at birth are considered very low…

Paid maternity leave is offered to women and the policy even extends to men for a lesser time frame around the globe. Countries have offered as much as 12 to 18 weeks paid leave and some private sector organizations overseas can offer up to a year of maternity leave. Countries that are rapidly growing within their economic development have also extended policy centered around maternity leave which begs the question: Why is the United States lagging behind our global counterparts in providing…

Death. The end of life. The total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism (dictionary.com). Death is the absolute ending to a living thing. This concept at first is difficult to grasp. As a child, one doesn’t understand the finality of it. How does a more intellectually capable human explain to a young mind about this final event? Lies of a “long sleep” or “happy trip” are told to them to keep the idea simple. In reality though, the idea of death is a very complex…

The two variables I have chose to illustrate this are child mortality (ages 0-5 dying per 1,000) and Income per person (or GDP/capita) because we tend to determine how developed a country is based on the income and GDP. My observations reflect concept because countries with higher income per person (such as The United States, Germany, or the UK) tend to have lower child mortality rates than less developed countries (such as Zambia, Afghanistan, or Nepal) over time. Also…