Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale

(Brazelton Nugent 1989) The Neonatal Behavioral Assessment used visual, auditory, and the tactile stimuli. The NBAS was used to judge physical and neurological responses from newborns, it also assessed their emotional well-being and individual differences. (Harvard library) Brazelton goal of the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale to evaluate the baby’s contributions to the failures that resulted when parents had a difficult or deviant infant. (T. Berry Brazelton) Brazelton figured if they understood the cause if the child’s behavior then he could help parents understand their roles and get a better outcome when developments start to occur. (T. Berry Brazelton) Doing research with the NBAS helped Brazelton with…

basis including mechanical ventilation, repeated heel sticks for blood draws, acute medical illnesses, postoperative issues, and even invasive procedures. It has been found that acutely ill neonates in the NICU are subject to between 50 and 132 bedside procedures that can cause pain in a single 24-hour period (Witt, 2016). Nurses, in their nature, strive to make comfort their primary focus. They must alleviate the pain and discomfort of their patients regardless of the ability of the patient to…

The intervention lasted for two to eight weeks, with three to seventeen sessions, depending on the needs and hospitalization length. Each session took one to one-and-a-half hours. Data was collected at baseline and discharge to mothers, using the Demographics, Parental Stressor Scale: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (PSS:NICU), Maternal Self-Report Inventory (MSRI), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Family Environment Scale (FES), and Demographic questions. The Clinical Interview For Parents of…

Introduction Literature Review Pain is defined as “a physical and sensory discomfort that causes suffering that affects an individual’s quality of life” (Lewis, Dirksen, Heitkemper and Camera, 2014). And like every individual, pain is perceived differently regardless of the age. For a newborn(neonates) who is born before 48 weeks, they are exposed to greater pain sensitivity and intensity due to inability to control the pain process (Hatfield, 2014). A preterm who is placed into the neonatal…

Pain is subjective. It is whatever the person says it is and when it is happening. As a nurse you must be aware of the different assessment tools available and how to use them correctly. Self-reporting is the best method for pain assessment, however, most pediatric patients can barely talk, let alone inform their nurse of pain. So behavioral and physiological observation is very important to the pediatric nurse. Physiological indicators of acute pain include an increase in respiration,…

(2009) evaluate the behavioral and physical responses of pain repeated heel sticks over 11 months. Researchers conclude that sucrose is an effective method to control pain with repeated needle sticks based on their findings. They observed an increase in heart rate and a decrease in oxygen saturation. Over the course of 11 months, facial scores decreased with each heel lance. Post procedure crying time was six percent less than during the procedure. Facial scores in 20% of heel sticks were given…

received a Raw Score of 81, equating to a standard score of 56. This score falls within the .2% percentile, with a stanine of 1, and a Growth Scale Value of 128. These values equate to an age equivalency of 5:0 and a description of an extremely low score. The basal was established at age 6 with the ceiling being established at age 10. In total, T.O made 27 errors during the assessment out of a 60 opportunities. Every opportunity to identify a verb was missed. The remaining errors were…

42% had completed less that a high school education. Within the subsample, 67% of the participants were White/non-Hispanic, 20% were multiracial, 9% were African American, and less than 1% were Hispanic or Asian American. At the time of the assessment participants ages ranged from 16 to 36 years of age (Raby, Steele, Carlson and Sroufe, 2015). Procedures The mother and infant and environmental characteristics were assessed at different testing periods along with observations of mother-infant…

specifically in regards to the psychological burden, erectile function, and sexual satisfaction of the male partner (Zhang et al., 2016). The study found that having a partner that experienced recurrent miscarriages was significantly correlated with erectile dysfunction, anxiety and depression, as well as lower reported sexual satisfaction (Zhang et al., 2016). Further investigating the partner impact, researchers studied the impact of miscarriage on the interpersonal and sexual relationships…

Some of the adverse effects that have been associated with the usage of antidepressants include ?intrauterine death, spontaneous abortion, preterm birth, fetal growth impairment, neonatal toxicity, structural malformations, gastrointestinal problems, persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN), cardiac malformations, or long-term effects on infant neuro-cognitive development? (Anderson et al. 2015). There appears to be a higher occurrence of malformations in the infant if the mother…