Neonatal intensive care unit

Nursing today is in high demand within our country and our communities deserve quality care. The current nursing shortage is on the verge of becoming a crisis, which may decrease quality of care for patients. I have a passion for helping others and desire to work in the healthcare field. I helped those in need while working for Anthem BC, but my true desire is to become a registered nurse. An unlikely event occurred in 2016 that gave me my inspiration back of becoming a nurse. My son…

of professionalism, medical experience and knowledge that several times served to resuscitate my son. The NICU nurses inspired me to become a registered nurse. They left me with a need to provide my future patients the same level of esteemed medical care that my son received. New York University College of Nursing, being my first choice, with their Clinical Simulation Learning Center and off- campus clinical experience will provide me the nursing knowledge and clinical skills necessary to be an…

Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist (NAVA) is a new mode of ventilation that is becoming more popular in pediatric hospital intensive care units as a method of weaning patients from mechanical ventilation. It is also aimed at improving patient ventilator synchrony. I plan to explain NAVA and the research of the use of this mode in the pediatric and neonatal units and find if it is more beneficial than other ventilator weaning modes. In the beginning, there was only what was called…

University of Iowa at Des Moines Area Community College. I plan to work as a nurse for about 5-7 years and then go back to school to become a nurse practitioner. I plan to work at a hospital hopefully on the pediatrics floor or in the neonatal intensive care unit. Two of my most meaningful achievements happened last year when I was invited to be at the honors breakfast and honors assembly. I showed me that with all of the schooling I have to go through to become…

case of cattle as soon as the calf in born, it learns to stand up by itself, and suck the milk from the mother and begins to run around soon. If the new born babies are left unaided or not taken care they cannot survive. So much care is needed to a new born infant, especially from the mother and this care includes love, affection, warmth, protection and nutrition for good health. Aim To evaluate the effectiveness health teaching…

The NICU is an intensive care unit for babies born either prematurely or have a condition where they will need special care. In the u.s nearly half a million babies are born preterm and many of these babies have low birth weights. Babies born with heart diseases, infections, etc will also be admitted into the NICU. Some…

practice. Schon (1983) Nonetheless, reflection on professional action and experience become a barrier for health care professionals when liked with negatives outcome as they are reluctant to explore which limits the learning experience. King and Appleton (1997) states that nurses who enhance their knowledge through reflecting on their experiences are at an advantage in delivering care to…

cells in the body. Since neonates accumulate the majority of their iron in the third trimester, week 28 of gestation until birth, preterm infants often do not collect enough iron from their mother, which results in their admittance to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) for iron deficiency anemia (Rao & Georgieff, 2009). While transfusions are an option for treating anemia in many people, NICU healthcare professionals have become more restrictive in their use of transfusions to treat…

parts of the world and also to hone their skills. “The Air and Surface Transport Nurses Association (ASTNA) is an organization of nursing specialty that offers client care during all stages of transport” (www.lifeflightmain.org). ASTNA mission statement “is to advance the practice of transport nursing and enhance the quality of patient care” (www.lifeflightmain.org). Their main objective of transport nursing is to carefully meet the client’s essentials during the stages of transport. During…

defined as “improvements in medical care” by Field et al. 2008 (p.1221).…