Another program is School Nurse Childhood Obesity Prevention Education (SCOPE). This program is a complete, continuing education program created by the National Association of School Nurses to provide methods for school nurses to help students, parents and their community deal with the challenges of childhood obesity (NASN). The U.S. Surgeon General’s “Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity” provides steps to prevent and decrease childhood obesity. Children need to have a thorough medical evaluation by a pediatrician to consider the possibility of a physical cause.
Common Transitions 0-19 years, possible affects and benefit positive relationship may have: • Babies weaning - young children may not like the texture or taste of other foods and may lose weight if weaning attempts to replace a milk diet too early. Children may begin to have disturbed sleep patterns, be more irritable whilst awake and less motivated to try new foods. Supportive relationships help to overcome the anxiety during these times with use of a soothing, calm voice, reassurance through eye contact, physical contact to comfort, play ideas that help distract tension and diffuse worry, or maybe anger at facing another unwanted episode of food tasting. Motivate trying new foods by showing how you taste them first and what imapct that has - facial expression yum, where this is hesitant try a tongue tip & touch approach to a new food, have knowledge of baby led weaning and the benefits this has for self motivated experimentation with foods, tastes, flavours, textures that are set solely at the child's own pace: Weaning and supporting children during this transition - leaflet from the Department of
Avoidant children often have rejecting parents, which leads to them developing an internal model which makes them think they are unacceptable and unworthy. The continuity hypothesis provides an explanation for why these early experience which lead to certain attachment types go on to affect relationships in adult life, as attachment type remains fairly stable over a lifetime. The internal working model developed in childhood influences a person’s expectations and attitudes towards relationships. The theory predicts that securely attached people are more likely to have stable relationships, compared to resistant types who are likely to be clingy and avoidant types who aren’t comfortable in relationships. Hazan & Shaver conducted an experiment which lends support to Bowlby’s concept of the IWM.
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Children may be cheerful with new technology at first, but after excessive use and weight gain, they eventually become emotionally depressed with how their bodies look. Overall, the focus of this essay is to explain how technology causes obesity in children and to provide solutions that prevent future risks of childhood obesity. Parents play an important role in their child’s weight and they should be responsible for keeping them healthy. Also, children should adapt their bodies to become physically active from a young age, so that the growth of technology does not affect their
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‘Research indicates an annual increase of this figure of 1-1.5%, a trend that suggests half of all young Australians will be overweight by the year 2025’ (Tipping the scales: Intervention and management of childhood obesity 2007). In developed countries, obesity is the most common child health problem
Children’s Functional Health Pattern Assessment Functional Health Pattern Assessment (FHP) Toddler Erickson’s Developmental Stage: Preschool-Aged Erickson’s Developmental Stage: School-Aged Erickson’s Developmental Stage: Pattern of Health Perception and Health Management: List two normal assessment findings that would be characteristic for each age group. List two potential problems that a nurse may discover in an assessment of each age group. • Able to tell you when they don’t feel good • Able to do things for themselves like cleaning their bodies, face and hand included • Able to express pain • Curious about how their body functions • Perception of illness could be influenced by culture • Understands they have wellness check up with the doctor • Risk for injury and poor health due to parental knowledge deficit • Risk for cavities • Immunizations not up to date • Poor hygiene • Poor hygiene • Poor health habits learned from parents, increases risk for illness and injury Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern: List two normal assessment findings that would be characteristic for each age group. List two potential problems that a nurse may discover in an assessment of each age group. • Weaning from breast feeding • Feeding themselves, with spoon/fork and drink from a toddler cup • Want to help make their lunch for school • They have favorite foods/snacks • Normal weight • Understand the difference between healthy snacks and junk food • Vomiting after they eat • Risk for cavities due to sleeping with bottles with juice in them • Want to eat junk food • Risk for allergies • Obesity • Family feeding them fast food Pattern of Elimination: List two normal assessment findings that would be
Children’s Functional Health Pattern Assessment Functional Health Pattern Assessment (FHP) | Toddler Erickson’s Developmental Stage: Autonomy VS Shame and doubt (Berman A and Snyder, S, 2012) | Preschool-Aged Erickson’s Developmental Stage: Initiative VS Guilt (Berman A and Snyder, S, 2012) | School-Aged Erickson’s Developmental Stage: Industry VS Inferiority (Berman A and Snyder, S, 2012) | Pattern of Health Perception and Health Management: List two normal assessment findings that would be characteristic for each age group. List two potential problems that a nurse may discover in an assessment of each age group. | Gaining independence Basic hygiene such as learning to brush teeth and hand washing | Verbalizes pain. Can tell what part of the body is sick | Cooperative, likes to talk and will tell nurse what is wrong. Understand the need for checkups | | Poor oral hygiene Missing doctors’ appointments and well check ups | Lack of self esteem Immunizations not up to date | Withdrawn Poor hygiene Unable to show signs of trust | Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern: List two normal assessment findings that would be characteristic for each age group.
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