Newborn

ethical argument concerning abortion, through exploring the differentiation between a fetus and a newborn baby. The liberal argument expresses the view of that it is acceptable to kill a fetus up to a certain point but has adverse feeling towards killing a baby that is able to live outside the womb. Singer (1979, p.122) argues that if a fetus does not have the same claim to life neither does a newborn baby, even one that of a week-year-old. He previously stated the life of a fetus has no…

Emese Nagy, the author of Innate Inter-subjectivity: Newborns’ sensitivity to Communication Disturbance, designed a study that would determine if newborns have different responses to a communication disturbance modeled by the still face situation. The period of development this study studies is infancy. The developmental domain of this study is emotional and social. In order to qualify as a participant of the study, infants must be healthy and singleton requiring no neonatal intensive care. 90…

The story of a healthcare-related professional misconduct that I found in the New York Post was a story of two navy nurses that inappropriately handled newborns in a hospital located in Florida. One of nurses was making a newborn dance to rap music by moving its arms to music, while the other nurse was holding up her middle finger at the newborns and calling them ‘mini Satans’. All of these pictures and videos were recorded and posted on social media by the nurses. 1.) There…

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 newborn infants into one area. These ill newborn infants will be put in the neonatal intensive care unit. There are different levels of neonatal care for these premature or ill infants. Neonatal…

that effects newborns, mostly premature infants. About 40,000 newborns are diagnosed with this disease annually and the rate is growing rapidly (Ludman, Mark D). RDS is a common breathing problem with premature newborns because myriad organs of the infants are underdeveloped, especially the lungs. This prevents the newborn from being able to breathe in oxygen and pass it to the necessary organs in the body that depend on it. Unfortunately, if treatment is not immediately given to a newborn with…

day close to 4,000 newborns still require resuscitation per year (Chalkias). Respiratory support may be needed in the delivery room when a newborn undergoes asphyxia and can not reach the level of oxygen needed to thrive and survive by his or her own self (Chalkias). Resuscitation is abundantly seen in preterm delivery, which is describes as a delivery prior to the 37 week mark of the gestational period (Morrison). In most situations there is a 100% survival rate among newborns born after 32…

Currently, in the United States of America, circumcision is one of the most commonly performed medical surgeries in hospitals. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) show that in 2010 the percent of newborn males circumcised is 58.3%. A number which represents over half of the males living in the United States. Since this study only takes into account the number of circumcisions performed in hospitals, it is likely that the number of…

Pulse oximetry is a noninvasive procedure that is used to measure the oxygen saturation level of the newborn (Pillitteri & Pillitteri, 2013). The device used in pulse oximetry readings contains two diodes that release equal concentrations of red and infrared light concurrently into the tissue bed the electrode is secured (WHO, 2011). The reading that is displayed is the proportion of reduced hemoglobin and oxygenated blood that is calculated and displayed indicating the oxygen concentration…

of smoking during pregnancy on newborns can be harmful to babies when they are born, and even be deadly. Some expectant mothers smoke because they are addicted to nicotine or due to stress, but no matter the reason an unborn baby is still being potentially harmed. Some of the most known birth defects in newborns, from mothers smoking, are premature birth, stillbirth, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Smoking during pregnancy causes these harmful effects on newborns because when a mother…

LBW will be higher than the mean of women with premature labor. Illustrating that relationship between LBW and preterm labor. a sole variable linked to newborns with low birth weight. Using the two-sampled hypothesis test will allow us to further examine the correlation between the two variables and if they indeed impact the LBW among newborns. For this hypothesis, we will use a level of significance of 0.05 with a sample size of 190. The number of successes…