Nursing Case Study In Nursing

For this paper I interviewed Christine. She is the mother of Megan, who is a nine-year-old girl in the third grade at Steere Farm Elementary school. Megan enjoys spending time with her family and her pets. Megan is also involved in girl scouts, cheerleading and horseback riding. Megan was diagnosed with avoidant and restrictive food intake disorder and anxiety in two thousand fourteen at the age of seven. Megan was born four weeks premature on March 20, 2007 and weighed five pounds, five ounces and appeared very healthy. She began to feed right away and things were going well. When Megan turned two months old she was drinking four ounces of formula, but would often spit up her feedings. After a period of time of this happening the pediatrician

In light of Megan not gaining weight she continued to gain in height and was still meeting her developmental milestones. The doctor became even more concerned for Megan, when she went in for her sixteen-month old check-up and had only gained a few pounds. Megan should have been around twenty-two pounds, but weighed in at eighteen pounds and was still only in the zero percentile for her age and weight. This is when the doctor recommended Christine take Megan to the Pedi Partial Program at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence. The Pedi Partial Program is an intense program that addresses the needs of children under the age of eighteen, and gives them comprehensive services to meet their needs. Megan began therapy with the feeding team right away, going one to two times per month. At 18 months old, the feeding team that evaluated Megan diagnosed her with Failure to Thrive because her weight was in the zero percentile and she was below the ideal weight for her height. Megan began bi-weekly therapy sessions with her feeding team, where they would encourage her to try new and already introduced foods with positive reinforcement like playing games, giving stickers and having some of her favorite foods available. Megan was weighed at each visit and Mom also had to keep a journal of everything Megan took in at home, so she could report it to the