pre-operative and Post Anesthesia Care Unit registered nurse, I have worked with patients at a pivotal time in their lives. Patients experience a variety of emotions and have a multitude of challenges to overcome when they present for surgery. Working in the acute peri-operative setting has allowed me to developed the interpersonal skills to provide compassion for the patients, yet thoroughly, safely and expeditiously assist them through the surgical experience with a high level of care they…
Neonatal care is a huge issue in the United States. Neonatal care has rescued so many premature babies over the years due to the new technology that has been made. Many people believe that neonatal care is a great priority and some people are apposed to this idea, that these children aren 't even worth saving. Neonatal care is the care of premature or ill newborn infants. The issue of premature and ill infants isn 't a new problem. It wasn 't until 1922 that hospitals started grouping these…
1.0. INTRODUCTION Neonatal admission generally refers to the admission of newborns under 29 days old into a health facility for medical care. Because neonates are fragile and yet to develop competent immune system, they are prone to infections and most of the illnesses they acquire usually require critical care, hence their admission to the neonatal and intensive care units (NICU) (Gupta et al., 1993). Neonatal infections may begin in-utero, early in labour or postpartum (U.N IGME, 2014).…
specialties in the nursing field you can choose.. Neonatal nursing is providing care for those infants such as those who are born with illness, premature, birth defects and diseases.The reason why I have chosen this career is when I was a little girl I've always watched my mother in the medical field, and I've seen things that normally little girls shouldn't,as my mother being a medical examiner.What is required to become a successful Nursing Neonatal is you have to become a Registered…
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome The cost in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) for an infant with neonatal abstinence syndrome is an average of $3,500 per day, with an average length of stay of 30 days. In 2009, 77.6% of infants with NAS were covered by state Medicaid programs (Patrick, et al., 2012). Sometimes also referred to as neonatal withdrawal syndrome, it is a group of complications that occur in a baby after being exposed to narcotics in the womb. Some problems that can occur in a…
unexpected occurred, and Riley had to spend critical weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit. “Approximately 12 percent of all neonates in the United States require admission to the NICU” (Rizzo). When giving birth to a child, the majority of parents expect to have an ordinary delivery and a healthy child. However, many infants are diagnosed with illnesses, abnormalities, or diseases after birth. During Riley’s stay in the intensive care unit, he was cared for by multiple physicians,…
Nursing is a health care profession centered on the care of individuals and their families. Nurses provide compassionate care designed to maintain quality of health and improve quality of life. Furthermore, nurses collaborate with physicians, therapists and other healthcare professionals to coordinate recovery plans and successfully treat illness. As professional health care providers, nurses require extensive knowledge and training in multiple levels of patient care in order to assess, diagnose…
license I would like to specialize in neonatal medicine. “The neonatal period is defined as the first month of life; however, these newborns are often sick for months” (National Association of Neonatal Nurses). Some of the problems that a neonatal nurse works with is prematurity, birth defects, surgical problems, and cardiac malformations to name a few. Depending on the institution, further education varies but experience working in a neonatal intensive care unit as an RN is preferred as a…
Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP) are advanced nurses that work in the neonatal intensive care units (NICU), delivery rooms, emergency rooms, or specialty. They work with healthy, sick, and premature newborns. Neonatal Nurse Practitioner also deals with cases like low weight, heart abnormalities, congenital abnormalities, and other disorders. This is the career that I would love to become. In this essay I will talk about what NNP's job description, salary, education requirements, training,…
the nursing profession. An example of how nursing changes was the implementation of the HIPPA act. According to Rodriguez (2013), information regarding someone’s healthcare not shared with people who are not directly involved with that individual’s care needs. Their information is protected by privacy laws; otherwise known as the HIPPA act. The privacy act was not something that I was taught about in nursing school. However, it was during my first year of nursing that it went into effect. I…