Early Chapters Flashcards
atraumatic care
eliminates and minimizes psychological and physical distress in patients and families
family centered care is…
enabling and empowering
infant mortality
number of deaths per 1000 live births during the first year of life
risk factors: low birth weight (under 2500g), black, maternal age
leading cause of infant mortality
congenital malformations
childhood mortality
number of deaths per 1000 children over one year
leading cause of childhood mortality
injuries
(MVC, burns, poison, drowning, firearms)
childhood morbidity
acute illness, chronic disease, or disability in children over one year
risk factors: homelessness, poverty, foreign born, daycare
growth
increase in physical size due to an increase in number and size of cells
results in increased height and weight
growth percentile
a statistical representation of 100 children and placement within the 100 members of the comparison group
concerns with percentiles
sharp drops or plateaus
if child is below 10th percentile
brain development is measured by…
psychological skills (theories of psychosexual, cognitive,psychosocial)
physical skills (motor milestones)
periods of growth
infancy (most rapid)
preschool (rate slows)
puberty (growth spurt)
weight changes in infancy
weight doubles by 6 mo
weight triples by 12 mo
cephalocaudal growth
head to tail neuromuscular growth
(begins w head control, then trunk and arm, then leg)
growth is influenced by
heredity (determines potential)
nutrition (largest singular influence on growth)
gender
disease
environment
what is the largest singular influence on growth?
nutrition
prenatal age stage
conception to birth
neonatal age stage
birth to 28 days
infancy age stage
birth to 1 year
toddler age stage
1 to 3 years
preschool age stage
3 to 6 years
school aged stage
6 to 12 years
adolescent age stage
12 to 18 years
freud’s psychosexual stages
all human behavior is energized by the psychodynamic forces of the id, ego, supergo
oral stage
birth to 1 year
anal stage
1 to 3 years
phallic stage
3 to 6 years
latency stage
6 to 12 years