Study Proposal Long-term impact NAS infants have with self-worth compared to non-NAS infants. Hilary Trew Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) occurs when neonates are exposed to drugs in the womb and have to go through withdrawl after birth. NAS has caused infants to remain in the hospital for up to six weeks after birth and accounts for more than 10,000 neonates annually.The purpose of this proposal is to research the long-term impactations Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome has on the neonates from infancy through childhood in regards to self worth versus infants without NAS. Studies have shown that there are cognitive, behavorial, and motor problems, among many others, in patients with NAS, but there is little known about how being born with NAS affects the self worth of these children overtime. Based on this information it is evident that patients born with NAS may have a lower self confidence then those without. …show more content…
Signs of withdrawal in a NAS baby usually begin between 24 and 48 hours of life, but the sigs of withdrawal peak between 34 and 50 hours of life. Symptoms of withdrawal include crying excessively at a notably high pitch, sleepiness, hyperactive reflexes, tremors, increased muscle tone, excoriation, sweating, fever, mottling, nasal stuffiness and flaring, tachypnea, poor feeding, regurgitation, projectile vomiting, and seizures. Withdrawal is managed first nonpharmicologically (reduce external stimuli- dim lighting, quiet, tight swaddling), then with opioids until the baby is stable enough to begin to be tapered off of the opioids. The course of withdrawal can take anywhere between 4-6 weeks. A lot of information was concluded about the behavior and cognitive abilities being at risk in children of NAS than those without. However self esteem was not apparent in the
Two weeks after he was discharged the baby who had received SimplyThick was readmitted, according to Saint Louis (2013) because of a distended abdomen and what seemed to be inconsolable pain. Soon after he was readmitted the baby passed away from NEC. A month after the incident the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A.) issued a statement about SimplyThick stating that it should not be give...
This paper will then explain the types of physical symptoms associated with NAS in the full-term and premature infant. It discusses the different classes of drugs and the unique symptoms newborns experience with each. Furthermore, it discusses the long-term cognitive and behavioral effects that newborns can experience as they grow. In addition, this paper discusses how Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome is diagnosed and the how the Finnegan neonatal scoring system is used to help physicians determine the severity of NAS in each newborn. Lastly, this paper explains the treatment for NAS and the important role of the nurse when caring for a newborn with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.
In the article it discusses the impact that postpartum depression has on the infant. Infants with mother who have postpartum depression get less attention, the mothers tends to speak less to the baby and touch the baby less. The infant tends to no thrust others, reject other and tend to think of themselves as unworthy (Thompson & Fox, 2010).
Some of the Morphine withdrawal symptoms include abnormal sleeping patterns, irritability, vomiting, problems gaining weight and uncontrollable shaking. Morphine may also pass from mother to baby through the breast milk.
After reading about the abstinence experience assignment, giving up the daytime show “The Young and the Restless” came to mind. However, my immediate answer to myself was “no way.” I attempted to think of something else that would be more difficult. I find it odd that dieting did not come to mind during my pre-contemplation stage. I kept trying to come up with something other than giving up my favorite show. I attempted to minimize the impact that missing the show would have on me by telling myself that the Young and the Restless show really is not be a big deal ; I needed to find something else that would give me a true feel for what a person who is attempting to abstain from drug use would experience. However, I decided that giving up the Young and the Restless Show would be very difficult for me. After all I have watched the Young and the Restless show since I was in the 6th grade. I remember lying on the hallway floor and hiding beside my grandparents couch to secretly watch the show. My parents and grandparents did not allow children to watch these types of shows. I debated for several days and changed my start date twice. Finally, I began the abstinence experience on July 10, 2010. July 10, 2010 is a Saturday; I usually watch any shows that I missed during the week on Saturday’s.
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Increasing numbers of women are abusing drugs during pregnancy and thus endangering the well-being and lives of their children as well as themselves. The spreading abuse of phencyclidine (PCP), cocaine, and cocaine's potent form "crack," added to the more well-known addictive narcotics such as heroin, has intensified concerns about the implications of maternal drug use for unborn children.
Some effects of withdrawal are nausea, diarrhea, severe discomfort, vomiting and aches + pains in bones. Some short-term effects include: slowed breathing, drowsiness, hypothermia etc.
Many of these programs focus on teaching students that the only way to not get pregnant or get an STI was to completely abstain from sexual intercourse; however, in a study conducted by the Center of Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 47 percent of students in 2011 reported that they had engaged in sexual intercourse (Blackman, Scotti, Heller). According to Kate Blackman, Samantha Scotti and Emily Heller, “15 percent of high school students have had sex with four or more partners during their lifetime.”
It's been found that few educators are formally trained to use gender-specific teaching techniques (Stanberry, Kristin. "Single sex education: the pros and cons").
For my course project I decided to research teen pregnancy, and how sex education in different states affects the teen pregnancy and teen birth rates. With my research I came to believe that abstinence only education is ineffective at preventing pregnancy.
Sexual education in schools has been a hot topic for many years. Many people believe that only abstinence should be taught in schools, but lets get real just because you teach that does not mean teens will follow that. In 2003, nearly one out of five male students reported having multiple sex partners. One-third of young women get pregnant at least once before the age of 20.
In America, a multitude of studies has concluded that abstinence-only sex education is ineffective in comparison to comprehensive sex education. Moreover, proponents of comprehensive sex education claim, “abstinence-only curricula . . . contain false or misleading public health information” (Beh, Diamond, 2006, p.13). However, the main premise of this paper is to explain that abstinence-only sex education is an appropriate approach to minimizing the rate of teen pregnancies and sexual diseases not if abstinence-only sex education “contain false or misleading public health information” (2006). Educational institutions and their focus are
Before learning about early childhood in this class I never realized all the way children at such a young age are developing. From the second part of this course I learned how much children are developing at the early childhood stage. I never realized children learn how about their emotions, having empathy, and self-concept at such a young age. I thought children had it easy. They play with friends, start school, and just be kids. One important thing that stood out to me in this chapter is that children’s self-esteem starts at this stage. According to Berk (2012), “self-esteem is the judgments we make about our own worth and the feelings associated with those judgments (p. 366)”. Self-esteem is very important for a child to have and it can
Whatever the choice drug may be, it’s intended purpose remains universal; put the baby or small child to sleep or induce a trance-like, barely conscious state