Pediatrics

Throughout the years, people in the workforce are making mistakes in their respectful jobs and it’s affecting their work business overall. With these mistakes keep piling up, workers will feel guilty towards themselves for developing bad habits and they are having a hard time changing it. There have been high rates of death in employees and in consumers and this can result in a bad reputation for businesses. People that are working for a long period of time are faced with these kinds of…

Brenner, Drennan, Treacy, and Fealy, (2015) mentioned that the practice of limiting a child for a medical procedure is an implicit and vital part in the care of children in hospital. After a pediatric heart catheterization, a Syvek patch, gauze, elastoplast, and pressure is held on the arterial puncture site for approximately thirty minutes. At Cook Childrens Medical Center, the practice was to place infants and small children in a papoose. However, this temporarily restrained and frightened…

Becoming a pediatrician has been something that I’ve thought about for a long time. I’ve always had a passion for kids since I have younger siblings I’ve learned to deal with them when their sick, need help and can’t fully communicate what’s wrong with them as well as just overall being there for them. For a long time I battled between the decision of becoming an actual doctor, a nurse or a pediatrician. Being a doctor didn’t hit a nerve in a positive way to me. Doctors to me don’t have a…

skills. It is important because the sooner the pediatrician catch a delay or disability the sooner, the doctor can help connect the children and the parents with services, and support that make a real difference. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), development screenings should be conducted at 9, 18, 24 and 30 months (Under-referrals For Developmental Delays by Pediatricians: A Systematic Review, 2015). One of the tool that uses to assess children for their development stages…

Pediatricians are a branch of health care that focuses on children from birth to the age of 18-21. Pediatricians are more than just baby doctors, the job of a pediatrician is focused towards a developing body, therefore it is very different from the person who is 34 years old because that person is fully developed. When a baby is born, an infant has 300 bones, and an adult has 206 because of the fusion of the bones due to cartilage. A vast difference from a baby to an adult. Pediatricians are…

According to 1.salary.com, " $357,650 is the median amount o money surgeons get paid." How much money one makes depends on the specialty one goes into. Pediatric surgeons make $166,000, which is not the least amount of money a surgeon can make. Plastic surgeons make somewhere around, $74,000 to $84,000 per year. If one wants to do it all, go into general surgery. If ones looking for a specific specialty…

Hot Topics Personal Position Paper, “Should I Let My Baby Sleep With Me?” Co-Sleeping: NO! Hannah Myers University of Washington, School of Nursing The hot topic of co-sleeping has recently been the source of much debate. Parents are indecisive about what will be best for them and their baby. It is a very confusing topic, but after sufficient research, I have found that the risks outweigh the benefits. It is important to note that there are different “types” of…

girls. (A) Weight-for-age in grams (gm). (B) Length- and head circumference (HC)-for-age. Of note, 3rd and 97th percentiles on all curves for 23 weeks should be interpreted cautiously given the small sample size. Reproduced with permission from: Pediatrics, Vol. 125, Pages…

In the photo shown, a neonatal nurse is feeding an infant in the NICU. He was in the third level of the NICU. Although he wasn’t premature, he did have some severe complications. His mother had gestational diabetes, once the cord was cut, the infant’s blood dropped quickly therefore his body couldn’t regulate his blood sugar on his own. The nurses noticed he wasn’t eating so they began to feed him through a tube until he could eat on his own. The infant was also having trouble breathing thus…

system. 6. After finishing an O.D. degree, some optometrists complete a 1-year residency program to get advanced clinical training in one specific area. Some of these areas for residency programs include family practice, low vision care, pediatric or geriatric optometry, and ocular disease, etc. 7. Since all states require optometrists to be licensed, an optometrist must have an O.D. from an accredited optometry school and must complete all sections of the National Board of…