Working in a family practice requires a nurse to treat the entire family and experience providing care for each developmental stage. Understanding the developmental stages of human growth creates an environment that allows the nurse to view and provide care for the whole person. There are eight human growth and development stages that include promoting health throughout the life span and resolving health concerns. We will look at each stage and identify significant changes and health concerns experienced for each stage. The first stage is the neonatal or newborn stage, which ranges from birth to one year at this stage are also consider infants. The nursing assessment for infants must consider several aspects of the infant’s developmental …show more content…
Preschoolers gain about five pounds and grow two to three inches per year, they are a lot more stable. Physically, preschoolers are sturdier and show tremendous improvement in their gross and fine motor skills. Preschoolers learn how to ride tricycles, skip, jump rope, and even throw a ball over head. Although, preschoolers are still in the preoperational phase of cognitive development, according to Piaget they are very intuitive in their though process. Preschoolers bring inanimate objects to life by having imaginary friends and engaging in pretend plays. Piaget believes a pretend play is healthy because it allows the child to determine the difference between reality and fantasies. A major health and concern with patients from this age group is their nutrition. Preschoolers tend to be very picky eaters and find it hard to eat a balanced diet. Eating balanced meals are very important for the preschool stage therefore educating the caregiver on the necessity of their preschoolers eating balance meals and encouraging them to engage in trying different foods items that will help promote health and safety issue with the
This week we were assigned to assess the Perez Family, this assessment was tailored towards exploring the family’s dynamic and our thoughts on how we as nurses could improve their developmental outcomes. The Perez’s have a three- generational family form, which consist of married twenty somethings, a young and growing family, and grandmother all living under one roof. This family is in multiple stages of development that further the stresses in their daily lives. Although the case study does not mention how long the “main characters” Maria and her husband Jamie have been married, because of their age it is safe to assume that they are newly married. Maria and Jamie have yet to lay a stable foundation (marriage) for themselves, yet alone their
Stage one describes the changes that typically appear in the first six to 18 months of the infant's life. These include a general slowness in development; floppiness (hypotonia); difficulty feeding; abnormal hand movements (such as repeatedly making wringing, clapping or washing motions with the hands); lack of interest in toys; poor coordination of
Neonatal nursing is a field of nursing designed especially for both newborns and infants up to 28 days old. The term neonatal comes from neo, "new", and natal, "pertaining to birth or origin”. Neonatal nurses are a vital part of the neonatal care team. These are trained professionals who concentrate on ensuring that the newborn infants under their care are able to survive whatever potential life threatening event they encounter. They treat infants that are born with a variety of life threatening issues that include instances of prematurity, congenital birth defects, surgery related problems, cardiac malformations, severe burns, or acute infection. Neonatal care in hospitals was always done by the nursing staff but it did not officially become a specialized medical field until well into 1960s. This was due to the numerous advancements in both medical care training and related technology that allowed for the improved treatment and survival rate of premature babies. According to the March of Dimes, one of every thirteen babies born in the United States annually suffers from low birth weight. This is a leading cause in 65% of infant deaths. Therefore, nurses play a very important role in providing round the clock care for these infants, those born with birth defects or other life threatening illness. In addition, these nurses also tend to healthy babies while their mothers recover from the birthing process. Prior to the advent of this specialized nursing field at risk newborn infants were mostly cared for by obstetricians and midwives who had limited resources to help them survive (Meeks 3).
In nursing, it is important to understand the difference between the different developmental groups for pediatric patient’s and how these differences affect the care and guidance that patient receives.
1.1 Describe, in-depth, stages of development from conception to birth in groups of 4 weeks i.e. 0-4, 4-8, 8-12...36-40 weeks.
To be healthy you must have four unsettles ingredients. These four things are eating healthy and the right amount, exercising regularly, sleeping well, and getting the right nutritious vitamins. A child two to eight years old need the same four unsettles to be healthy. The only difference is that they need a different amount of each that an adult. They must eat the recommended intake in each food group corresponding with their age and sex stated in the Canada’s food guide. They must also get daily excurses, with lots of sleep. The National sleep foundation recommends that children one to five years old should get 11 to 14 hours of sleep each night (National sleep foundation, n.d.) They must also get the right nutritious vitamins to help them grow. A good way to achieve this is with a child baste motley vitamin. I will be inspecting the intake of food a child in daycare consumes each day to see if them meet the recommendations set by The Canada food guide. Studying their strengths and weaknesses and how thy can be improved.
The following twelve stages of human development are discussed below which may help in the analysis of the development of the human from the birth to the adulthood.
The first stage is infancy and it covers the first year of life. The issue in this stage is trust versus mistrust. This is a stage where an infant is completely dependent on their caregiver. Trust is built by the actions of the caregiver taking care of the child by feeding, bathing, changing diapers, showing affection, etc. If a child is not well taken care of then that child will not learn to trust others. New parents struggle with this stage a lot because of the loss of freedom and the diversion of some attention from spouse to newborn child. It is known as the oral-sensory stage because infants use their mouth to explore their new world. Parents must meet the
Children between the ages of 8-12 are defined as being within the developmental stage of middle childhood. At this age, the rapid development of previous stages has decreased and the physical changes within this period are slower and more defined. The refinement of gross and fine motor skills is a critical aspect of this stage as the delayed or retarded development can have significant impact on the areas of cognitive, social and emotional development. In order to ensure children are equipped with the correct knowledge and understanding of health, well being and healthy eating, the period of middle childhood is one in which these aspects are incorporated and failure to properly do so can result in long term ramifications and problems.
Duvall’s Family Development and Life Cycle Theory states that families follow a predictive and individual process of development that is dependent on the family’s circumstances and interactions. Though families today are more diverse than in the past, this theory still guides nursing approaches because it examines families’ experiences and how they adapt when becoming parents (Rowe Kaakinen, Padgett Coehlo, Steele, and Tabacco, 2015). In this discussion, I will choose one of the development tasks from Duvall’s theory and discuss how I would apply it to a family in my nursing practice.
Sampaio, C., & Guedes, M. (2012). Nursing process as a strategy in the development of
A child’s proper growth depends greatly on their nutrition and health. A healthy diet is essential to the developing child. Food should never be used to reward, punish, or bribe a child. Instead children should have three healthy meals with snacks in between. It is also important for children to have good self care behaviors (including bathing, washing hands, brushing teeth), and adequate sleep.
Studies related to the current procedural of growth consist of works dedicated to inversions caused by growth such as organizational implications and financially and the challenges that growth requires companies. Growth is not regarded as an end but rather as the trigger or the cause of other phenomena. There are some authors who are interested in organizational changes brought about by the need to control the increase in the size of the company without however include this problem in a model of the development stage of the company. This work highlights the need for such centralization and greater bureaucratization, specialization and a greater division of functions within the company, a broadening of the types of employee profiles
The infancy stage of development begins with the child is born, and continues until about eighteen months. During this stage a lot of growth takes place, especially physical growth. This stage of development coincides with Erikson’s stage of trust vs. mistrust.
It is natural to be misled by the idea that economic growth is the key