help the new parents take care of their new baby. The term neonatal means the first twenty-eight days of life, as a neonatal nurse you work close with parents showing them how to do basic tasks to care for their new baby, you teach them how to change a diaper, how to breast feed, or if your bottle feeding how to make the bottle and the right temperature of the water so that you don’t burn your babies throat. Being a neonatal nurse requires very harsh working conditions, you work very long hours
with infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. As long as I can remember I have always been very nurturing and it seems to me that a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner is the only position that will express my full potential.. I love children and it is my hope that I can lend a helping hand where I am needed. * ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- At first I was thinking about being a veterinary assistant so I volunteer with the
Gibbs (1988) model of reflective practice requires the nurse to describe the events that occurred. This incident happened at the obstetric and gynecological department of the Central Regional Hospital. The patient (B.B.) was admitted on the 28th march 2011 with the diagnosis of cesarean section on account of antipartum hemorrhage. B.B. lost her baby due to excessive bleeding. I went to work the next morning and found BB crying, I found out why she was crying. She narrated her story as the following
Paul 2004). The critical thinking strategy that I have seen work well in my professional life is "Question, Questions". In my experience in the Neonatal ICU I have encountered a few parents who are passive agressive. They will extensively question a nurse regarding a variety of things including ventilator settings, why changes were made, why one nurse does something one way and another does it another way. They request the results of tests and want to know the meaning or implications of these results
four days after birth and resolves automatically after one to two weeks (Jardine & Woodgate 2012). In this case study I am going to discuss the actual and potential risks newborns and their families face when diagnosed with jaundice or hyperbilirubinemia, and will discuss up to date nursing interventions to create a care plan that can be used in this situation to promote neonatal well-being and recognition of parents as care participants to their newborn, while adhering to the ethical principal of
Registered Nurses Who wouldn’t want to wake up every morning and help a person in need? This is something Registered Nurses do every day. A Registered Nurse is someone who graduated from a college’s nursing program or from a school of nursing and has passed a national licensing exam. The Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance states, “Modern ideas about hospitals and nursing as a profession did not develop until the 19th century” (254). Approximately 2.4 million jobs in the United States
Introduction In this essay I will reflect on my ability to maintain contemporaneous records. The Nursing and Midwifery council states as a student I should “keep clear and accurate records of the discussions you have, the assessments you make, the treatment and medicines you give and how effective these have been”. For this essay I will be using Driscoll’s model of reflection (2007). Driscoll’s model of reflection looks at what happened, which involves describing the situation and what people did
Authorization I am preparing this document based on the facts and findings of my assignment of preparing documentation of Teaching vs. Nursing, what field would be a better career path. The information provided has been provided from first hand individuals currently in both professions, and information collected from reliable sources. This document has been approved for release to the general public, as no information contained and released is proprietary or confidential. Acceptance I, Elizabeth
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So, I have decided I want to write this essay on natural delivery verse’s medicated. Though we most know that natural delivery is better in the long run, but most women tend to choose to at the very least to have an epidural. I can attest to the fact that sometimes they do not work. I gave birth to a beautiful, bouncing baby girl on the 18th of November who weighed in at 8 pounds 8 ounces. I had been in labor for 2 days already the day my midwife suggested the epidural to me and of course I agreed