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Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN), 2004.
Description of HDN condition, where there is an incompatibility between the blood types of the mother and baby.
1,493 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, AU$ 72.95
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This paper describes the medical condition known as Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN), which most frequently occurs when an Rh-negative mother has a baby with an Rh-positive father. The paper explains the physiological process that takes place when this condition occurs, who is affected by it, the concerns and symptoms of HDN, its diagnosis, treatment, and how it can be prevented.
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"The mother?s immune system sees the baby?s Rh positive red blood cells as ?foreign.? Just as when bacteria invade the body, the immune system responds by developing antibodies to fight and destroy these foreign cells. The mother?s immune system then keeps the antibodies in case the foreign cells appear again, even in a future pregnancy. The mother is now ?Rh sensitized? (Issit & Anstee 1998)."
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Discharge Practices in Newborn Situations, 2005.
A review of the seven step discharge policy and practices for mothers and newborn babies.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 51.95
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The paper presents the seven step discharge policy and practice for newborns. It reviews current issues along with a historical perspective in terms of hospital discharge practices for mothers and newborns. The seven step method is expounded upon very thoroughly along with all the factors necessary for implementation.
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"America has a highly developed health care system, which is available to all the people whether through individual pay or through program affiliation. Although it can be very complex and frustrating at times it has come a long way from the health care organizations of the decades before. Previously most health care facilities were a place where the sick were housed and cared for until death. Physicians rarely practiced in hospitals and only those who were fortunate could afford proper care at home or in private clinics. Today the level of health care has excelled tremendously. Presently the goal of our health care is to have a continuum of care for the patient, one which is integrated on all levels. Many hospitals offer a referral service or discharge plan to patients who are being discharged. Plans for the patient are discussed with a discharge planner."
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Universal Newborn Hearing Screening, 2002.
An opionion study on the use of the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening tests.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 7 sources, AU$ 116.95
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A paper that takes a pervasive view of the concept of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening.
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Nurse Home Visits to High-Risk Newborns, 2002.
Analyzes the article "A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Nurse Home Visiting to Vulnerable Families with Newborns" (Armstrong, Fraser, Dadds and Morris).
967 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 50.95
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This paper summarizes the theoretical framework, hypotheses, methodology, findings and conclusions of an article authored by K.I. Armstrong, J.A. Fraser, M.R. Dadds and J. Morris (1999), entitled "A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Nurse Home Visiting to Vulnerable Families with Newborns". The article speaks about mother-child attachment during the postpartum period in families where children are substantially at risk for poor health and development outcomes. Following the presented summary, an analysis is presented of both the positive features and the limitations of the conducted research. The findings and conclusions of the article are also related to the practice of midwifery.
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"Dependent variables in the study consisted of measures of: degree of parenting stress; degree of maternal depression; degree to which mother engaged in preventive health behavior, customer satisfaction with the program, and mother-child interactions plus other selected home environment outcomes. Parenting stress and maternal depression were measured at enrollment and again at 6 weeks. Preventive health behavior, service satisfaction and home environment outcomes were assessed six weeks following birth as were child health outcomes."
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Newborns and Technology, 2002.
A look at how developing technoloy has increased the mortality rate in newborns.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 130.95
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This paper is written on the topic of newborns and technology. Technology has given tiny infants a chance at life that was not possible in the past. The mortality rate has increased in the United States since the 1990s.
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Newborn Medical Screening Around the World, 2008.
An account of screening tests carried out on newborn babies.
1,683 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 11 sources, MLA, AU$ 79.95
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This paper describes the various tests that are carried out on newborns around the world for early detection of abnormalities, and includes a long list of conditions that can be found. While the author does include evidence of some controversy regarding various screening tests, the overall indication is that such testing can only be beneficial.
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"In the United States, newborns have been routinely screened for abnormalities and conditions affecting the infant's overall health, with routine tests such as biotinidase deficiency, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, congenital hearing loss, congenital hypothyroidism, cystic fibrosis, galactosemia, homocystinuria, maple syrup urine disease, MCAD deficiency, PKU, Sickle cell disease, and tyroseinemia. China has taken neonatal screening seriously in recent years, and with assistance from the United States, a "provincial laboratory quality control program has been established and provides oversight for a newborn screening system from blood collection through treatment of patients" (Chen, He, Shen, Wang, Zang, & Zhang 37). Israel has also determined how valuable nationwide neonatal screening is to societal health and in 2006 selected PerkinElmer, Inc., "a global technology leader in Health Sciences and Photonics...to create a comprehensive newborn screening program intended to cover every child born in Israel" (PerkinElmer). This is a definite step in the right direction, as more and more countries follow the lead the United States has had in the realm of neonatal screening."
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"Newborn Thrown in the Trash Dies", 2007.
A review of John Edgar Wideman's short story, "Newborn Thrown in Trash and Dies".
1,451 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 70.95
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This paper discusses how John Edgar Wideman's short story, "Newborn Thrown in the Trash and Dies", uses a very distinctive point of view for dramatic effect and irony. It looks at how the story uses the viewpoint of an unwanted baby, thrown into a trash shoot and how the baby's last moments make up the story, from the baby's own internal point of view.
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"This disturbing and graphic story opens with a first-person point of view that sounds rational and bitter at the same time. The first lines of the story indicate what is to come, just not to who, or why. Wideman writes, "They say you see your whole life pass in review the instant before you die. How would they know? If you die after the instant replay, you aren't around to tell anyone anything" (Wideman 1396). Thus, the reader is prepared for something unpleasant to occur, but it is not clear just how unpleasant that is going to be. In fact, the actually premise of the story does not come until much later, but already the viewpoint draws the reader in, and makes them want to know more about this intelligent and embittered character."
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Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Newborns, 1995.
This paper discusses Respiratory Distress Syndrome in newborns (neonate): Physical effects, incidence, complications and treatments.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 81.95
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"Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome involves a pathophysiologic deficit of pulmonary surfactant. This complex mixture of phospholipids, neutral lipids, and protein normally increases lung compliance and facilitates gas exchange. Preterm infants born with this disorder often develop life-threatening complications.
During the 1970s and 1980s, significant advances were made in neonatology. As a result, the survival of very-low-birth-weight, premature infants improved from three- to sevenfold. Unfortunately though, this success gave rise to an increase in ventilator-dependent infants suffering from severe chronic lung disease.
Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) was originally referred ... "
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Newborn Mortality Rates in Ghana and the U.S., 2004.
An analysis of newborn mortality rates in Ghana and the United States today.
1,878 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 8 sources, MLA, AU$ 88.95
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It is frequently been suggested that the infant mortality rate (IMR) is a reliable indicator of a country's civilization and focus on the welfare of its citizens. Although global infant mortality rates have shown steady improvement over the past century, many developing countries continue to experience inordinately high rates compared to the world levels; surprisingly, though, even the United States, which claims to have one of the best health care systems in the world, continues to experience relatively high infant mortality rates, higher even than many developing nations. This paper provides an overview of the problem, followed by an examination of the infant mortality rates in the Republic of Ghana and the United States. A summary of the research is provided in the conclusion.
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"Infant mortality reflects the well-being of entire populations, whether nations or subgroups, a fact that makes it a fundamental area of mortality study (Zopf 1992). According to Berger (2001), infant mortality has been subdivided into three major categories to clarify understanding of risk factors. Infant mortality encompasses two subgroups: neonatal (birth to 27 days) and postneonatal (28 days to 364 days). Child mortality applies to one-to-18 years olds. For the purposes of this investigation, the IMR will employ the definition provided by the CIA World Factbook, defined as infant deaths within the first year of life. This IMR therefore provides the number of deaths of infants under one year old in a given year per 1,000 live births in the same year."
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Newborn Screening for Sickle Cell Disease, 2008.
This paper focuses on the importance of neonatal screening for sickle cell disease.
1,458 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 8 sources, APA, AU$ 70.95
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The paper relates that while researchers and the medical field are very concerned about this disease, nurses, other health providers and governments, Ontario's in particular, are not aware of the nature of sickle cell disease. The paper explains the factors that prevent individuals and groups from focusing on sickle cell disease as a significant issue. The paper discusses how neonatal screening identifies people at risk and allows for preventive measures to be taken. The paper shows how this is cost-effective because it will result in high savings for the health care system later on. The paper discusses how advocacy and a major program of health promotion could promote this issue of neonatal screening.
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"In comparison with the United States, Canada is inconsistent in relation to newborn screening. Ontario especially is far behind other countries in this type of screening (Eggertson, 2005). Pediatricians, physicians, along with experts in sickle cell disease and thalessemia, are asking for a comprehensive program for newborn screening that will include the 29 treatable conditions recommended by the U.S. advisory committee. This is one area in which health professionals as a whole have failed to lobby, even though it involves primary prevention. Meanwhile researchers are struggling to find assessment tools to identify high risks for sickle cell disease. The issue here is that while researchers and the medical field are very concerned about this disease, nurses and other health providers along with the government - especially the Ontario government - are not aware of the nature of sickle cell disease."
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Newborn's Visual System, 1989.
Disscusses the development of an infant's nervous system in relation to vision, acuity, stereoscopic sight and accuracy.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 7 sources, AU$ 104.95
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" When a human infant is born its nervous system is still developing, it has not yet formed all of its neural connections nor have the neurons reached complete physical maturation. Because of this, the newborn lives in a very different world than the adult human. To be more specific, the visual world of the infant is considerably different from the visual world of the adult. The visual system of the newborn is very immature compared to that of even a 4 month old; therefore, the newborn does not perceive much of the (or at least the same) stimuli as would an adult or 4 month old. The consequences of an immature visual system are extensive. The newborn sees the world as a fuzzy, somewhat drab place.
The human nervous system at full.term birth (i.e., a 9 month (...)"
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Relative Kicking Frequency of Newborns, 2005.
This paper provides a review of the article "The Relative Kicking Frequency of Infants Born Full-term and Preterm During Learning and Short-term and Long-term Memory Periods of the Mobile Paradigm".
1,421 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 2 sources, APA, AU$ 69.95
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In this essay, the writer discusses the article "The Relative Kicking Frequency of Infants Born Full-term and Preterm During Learning and Short-term and Long-term Memory Periods of the Mobile Paradigm". The writer explains that this experiment was done to compare full-term infants' to preterm infants' kicking in a task-specific manner, which is the mobile paradigm. The writer maintains that one purpose of the study was to see if infants would increase the kicking of their tethered, or right leg, to make the mobile turn. Further, the writer notes that another purpose of the study was to test if the infants would not only learn the mobile paradigm on day one, but would also retain this task for a short-term memory period of 24 hours, and the long-term memory period of 1 week.
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Hypothesis
Participants
Setting
Research Design
Procedure
Results
Methodological Issues
Integrated into Classroom Material
Personal Reaction
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"For the first three minutes there was baseline; the mobile was attached to the left side of the crib so that when the infant kicked the mobile did not turn. For the next nine minutes, called acquisition, the mobile was moved to the right hand side of the crib so that when the infant kicked their tethered leg the mobile moved. For the comparison group the mobile remained on the left and the investigator moved the mobile with a transparent wire. During minutes 12 to 15 there was extinction where the mobile was back on the left hand side and the kicking did not move the mobile. For the full-term group there were three testing sessions. The first two were on consecutive days and then the third one was one week later. The preterm group had 12 testing sessions: 2 sessions consecutively for 6 weeks. During each of these sessions the kicks of the tethered and non-tethered leg were recorded."
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Early Discharge Planning, 2002.
Examines what constitutes appropriate care when assessing a patient's need for services after being discharged from hospital, with a focus on newborns.
858 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, AU$ 44.95
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Discharge planning is a process of assessing a hospital patient's need for care or other services once he or she is discharged from the hospital. The paper shows that the trend toward early discharge of newborns and their mothers grew at such a rate and was accompanied by such serious consequences for some, that the American Congress took note, passing the Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection' Act of 1996 which allows mothers the option of requesting a longer stay if she feels she and/or her child require it. Despite this act, most women elect the shorter hospital stay. The paper shows that the problem that needs to be addressed, however, is to determine, as precisely as possible, what constitutes effective early discharge planning for newborns and their mothers. The paper delineates effective practices and then applies the obtained information to midwifery concerns and practice.
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"One of the more interesting findings regarding early discharge planning is that there are some indications that certain factors allow for earlier release than others, and one of these is delivery by a midwife. In this regard, Margolis, Kotelchuck and Chang (1997) examined if mothers discharged from the hospital and one night's stay differed in any ways from mothers discharged after two or three nights stay. Specifically, it was found that mothers whose babies were delivered by midwives were more fit for early discharge than mothers whose babies were not delivered by midwives."
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Music and Brain Development, 2004.
This paper discusses the theory that newborns' hearing of classical music can aid in the development of their intelligence.
2,545 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 10 sources, APA, AU$ 113.95
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This paper explains that the Georgia Head Start organization began distributing CDs with classical music on them to every newborn child?s mother as part of a program designed to aid in the early childhood development of children?s intelligence. The author points out that, if pathways in the brain go unused, they will eventually wither away; however, a child who cannot yet form words and sentences can hear and be motivated by music, thus stimulating brain growth. The paper suggests that the program of handing out music CDs to parents whose children need the greatest amount of assistance available is a terrific plan, but poorly executed; instead, it would be better to regularly play classical music in the Head Start centers.
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"The research of Rausher and Shaw was based on the initial belief that music learning, in some shape or form, may count among the kinds of experiences that lead to long-term changes in the brain's hard wiring neural development. Using a group of 84 college students, they demonstrated that listening to a Mozart piano sonata for 10 minutes improved the students' spatial-temporal reasoning skills. The students increased their ability to form mental images from physical objects, or to see abstract patterns in space and time. These skills are key to engineers and architects, and form the basis for understanding proportion, geometry, and other mathematical and scientific concepts."
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Florida Senate Bill 144, 2007.
A summary and commentary on this bill which requires the mandatory testing of newborns for the HIV/AIDS disease.
2,753 words (approx. 11.0 pages), 7 sources, APA, AU$ 120.95
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Because of the serious problems that are still being seen with AIDS, especially in the black community, there is now legislation - known as Florida Senate Bill 144 - that is trying to make HIV/AIDS testing mandatory for newborns. This paper examines the policy, provides an overview of the bill and discusses its implementation. The paper also discusses the bill's importance to the African-American community.
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Policy Summary
Delineation and Overview of the Policy Under Analysis
Historical Overview
Implementation
Economic Analysis of the Policy
Policy/Program Evaluation and Current Proposals for Policy Change
Bibliography
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"However, this is not always true and some individuals may wish to be tested based on the fact that they believe a partner has cheated and possibly has contracted the virus. There are many reasons why individuals would want to be tested and there are many relatively innocent individuals who receive the disease from others in various ways even when they assumed that the other individual was safe and healthy. Since AIDS takes some time to show up and make the body sick, someone can contract the disease several years prior to actually showing any symptoms (Whitaker, 2001). If this individual is promiscuous during that time it is quite possible that he or she will spread the AIDS virus to a great many individuals before realizing that he or she has the virus."
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Teratogens and Pregnancy, 2002.
A scientific discussion of theexternal factors that might affect pregnancy and foster congenital birth defects in newborns.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 13 sources, AU$ 116.95
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Scientific discussion of external factors that might affect pregnancy and foster congenital birth defects in newborns. Prenatal development. Effect of pharmaceuticals, legal chemical substances, alcohol, narcotics & tobacco use by women on pregnancy. Effect of absence of essential nutrients such as Zinc. Cites several other causes of congenital birth defects. Variables. Problem of serious diseases of pregnant women & necessary drugs.
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"This research examines the phenomenon of teratogens, or factors external to the physical experience of pregnancy, during the period of gestation, which may affect pregnancy outcomes by fostering congenital birth defects in newborns. The research will set forth the clinical context in which teratogenic agents achieve relevance for the course of pregnancy in the modern period, and then discuss the impact that concern about teratogens may have on efficient and prudent pregnancy management.
On the face of things, the generally accepted definition of a teratogen would appear to be straightforwardly informative. Mosby's initially defines a teratogen as "any substance, agent, or process that interferes with normal prenatal development, causing the formation of one or more developmental abnormalities in the fetus" (Teratogen, 1998, p. 89). However, amplification of the..."
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