Reflexes

distension and observe for overflow because bladder distension can precipitate autonomic dysreflexia (Bauman & Russo-McCourt, 2016) Patients experiencing neurogenic shock after a spinal cord injury make a patient lose the voluntary muscle control and reflexes that could result in acute urinary retention. The nurse will have to insert a urinary catheter inside the urinary tract to decompress the bladder to allow stable urination and also help in monitoring the patient’s progress especially during…

DOI: 11/8/2014. Patient is a 61-year-old female care taker who sustained a work-related injury while she was turning a patient and felt that her back popped. Per OMNI, she was diagnosed with severe stenosis secondary to disc protrusion and facet cyst. She is status post laminectomy on 05/27. Based on the progress report dated 07/05/16, the patient is scheduled for a 3-level global fusion on 07/22/16 and 07/25/16. She reports that her back pain is rated as 7 /10. Yesterday was worse. The pain…

103). Motor skills starts in infants as reflexes that becomes skills if they are practiced and encouraged. Infants are born with a sucking reflex, rooting reflex, moro reflex and grasping reflex. These reflexes becomes skills that is need in the development of gross motor skills. Gross motor skills is the physical abilities involving large body movements, such as walking and…

Jean Piaget’s (1896-1980) theory of cognitive development began in the 1920’s. His partner, Theodore Simon, designed a standardized test that was meant to measure a child’s intelligence and how his/her age could be responsible for the nature of the mistakes made. Piaget found this test to be too constricting however, and so created a revised version. With this less rigid version, Piaget studied a child’s intelligence and their reasoning for the errors they made. He found that, if they did not…

The Apgar Score tests the baby’s breathing effort, heart rate, muscle tone reflexes, and skin color to see how healthy the baby is after the first and fifth minute. The Apgar Score is scored out of 10 and each category is scored out of 2. If the baby is not breathing the score for breathing effort is 0. If the baby has slow or irregular…

hate books (literature) so that they don’t read things that could cause them to learn the truth about the horrifying truth about their world, "They'll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an 'instinctive' hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably conditioned. They'll be safe from books and botany all their lives.’ The Director turned to his nurses. ‘Take them away again.’…

(Gabbard, 1996) During the first 2 to 4 months, infants begin to show different reflexes. During the interviews, both particpants explained that the first reflexes they noticed were facial expressions. Also, they shared how eager their babies were to breastfeed and how both infant’s would reach and hold their mother’s breast. This is an example of the Moro reflex.The baby…

sensory-neural hearing loss on the left. Additional examination show a normal elevation of the palate, an intact swallow movement but a slowed tongue movement even if the tongue power seems to be intact. In contrary to her hearing abilities, her tendon reflexes are rated as normal and symmetrical in her arms and even as brisk at the ankles. She also presents a bilateral extensor toe…

Jean Piaget On August 9, 1896 in Neuchatel, Switzerland one of the most well-known psychologists was born. This man changed the way that people think about children and also raised our curiosity as to why children think the way that they do. To us, the mind of a child is very hard to understand because we do things differently and we also have a more complex way of thinking than they do. Before Jean Piaget’s work became known, people thought that children were less knowledgeable thinkers than…

In such short periods children can digest such an immense amount of information. Comprehending the range of periods children go through allows for us to provide efficient and influential care to all children. Infants begin life using reflexes, while some reflexes are a response to their environment, many are used for…