National Nursing Review : Nursing Study Resources & Health Tips

Permanent disability is defined as physical conditions that probably or definitely affect daily life functions for> 3 months / year and determine overall hospitalization> 1 month / year. These disabilities include asthma, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, congenital heart disease, diabetes mellitus, inflammatory bowel disease, renal failure, epilepsy, cancer, juvenile arthritis, hemophilia and sickle cell anemia.

Children permanent disabilities

The physical disability, such as amputations, deformities and skin lesions extended also ruin the image of self and child development. While each disability is rare, affecting all together about 10% of children and may constitute an important part of children.

Effects of permanent disability on the child despite many differences, children with permanent disabilities have joint pain, discomfort, limited growth and development, frequent hospitalization, outpatient visits, treatment of pain and discomfort, the inability to participate in peer a significant burden of daily care and an unpredictable course. (more…)

Bath time is a time to establish links, play with your baby, and of course, sanitize with great smoothness. Here are some tips and information that may help you to have fun while washing your baby, as well as to feel closer to your child when they share this time together.

Baby Bath

Wash the diaper area after each bowel movement or after the baby has urinated, bathing two or three days a week is more than enough. You should wash daily and very gently and carefully wet areas that are particularly more than others, which are greasy or dirty is more, the diaper area, the face, neck and skin folds.

Some health professionals suggest waiting until the umbilical cord falls off or until the circumcision has healed area to give your baby a bath. (more…)

Obesity in children is increasing, unfortunately. It is important to be aware of the child’s attention right from their small size. As prevention against obesity, it is wise to teach the child to be physically active. Small children are growing much, so here it is important that the child will recover all nutritional needs through a healthy and hearty diet.

child obesity

It is easier to prevent obesity than the child later started to lose weight. Overweight children are more susceptible to lifestyle diseases later in life.

Pay attention to obesity after 3 years of age
There is no reason to worry about obesity in children under 2 years if parents do not weigh too much. When one of you are overweight, you should from the child’s 3-year age begin to be aware that the child will have healthy, sustainable eating and a delight in physical activity, rather than the inherit your bad habits. (more…)

Some women in the period after birth have a depression. It is not uncommon that women feel depressed or sad. The condition is much more frequent in nulliparous.

The reason for this is unknown, but it is possible that there is a hormonal link, as there is a change in the concentrations of female sex hormones.

Often these changes are seen as a response to the shocks that occur during labor. The woman is exhausted and after 9 months of increased pressure on her body as fetal growth, and not least the often exhausting birth, it ends in. (more…)

The physical examination is performed once stabilized the newborn preferably twelve hours after birth. The player must be sent first to the history of the mother to know the position, design and type of birth (eutopic or dystocic) or other information that can guide clinical findings.

General Appearance:
Sex and development in relation to gestational age and the presence of major malformation or deformation must be noticed. The presence of asymmetry in movement may indicate injury of brachial plexus or cervical cancer.

Posture:
A vertex presentation is observed: arms and legs in moderate flexion clenched fists resistance to limb extension or measurement. If the presentation was breech legs will be stiff and extended takes the position in utero. (more…)

Always keep in mind when considering the newborn or to provide care that loses heat and this loss can occur in four ways:
Convection: is the flow of heat from the body surface to the ambient air is colder. This is why we must stay warm.
Radiation: is the loss of heat from the body surface to a cooler area that is not in direct contact but in a close relative.
Evaporation: Is the heat loss that occurs when a liquid becomes vapor newborn heat loss by evaporation occurs as a result of vaporacion moisture from the skin. This process is invisible and is known as insensible water loss (PIA). This loss may be intensified but dried in the RN after delivery or take long to dry after bathing. (more…)

The major respiratory signs are:

• Tachypnea: Defined as the respiratory rate 60 breaths per minute. Indicates inadequate ventilation or oxygenation. The child responds to hypoxemia or hypercapnia, breathing faster.
• Cyanosis: Reflects an increase of more desaturated hemoglobin 3-5 g / dl. It can occur in heart disease, respiratory, neurological and metabolic diseases.
• Muscle Retractions: These occur in any muscle group of the chest may be intercostal, subxiphoid, supraclavicular … indicate inadequate ventilation that requires the use of accessory muscles. They are common to diseases which reduce alveolar ventilation, eg atelactasias.

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