How To Do Newborn Physical Examination?

A complete physical examination is an important part of newborn care within the first 12 hours of life. Each body system is carefully examined for signs of health and normal function. The physician also looks for any signs of illness or birth defects. Physical examination of a newborn often includes assessment or examination of the following: A. Vital Signs (normal readings): Axillary temperature - 96°F to 99°F or 35.6°C to 37.2°C  Pulse - 120 - 160 bpm, normally irregular  Respiration - 30 - 60 per minute, irregular, abdominal  Blood Pressure - 60 - 90mmHg (systolic) , 40 - 90 mmHg (diastolic)  B. Measurements: Length...

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24 Ways To Loose Weight Without Dieting (Part III)

Here is the last part on how to loose weight without deiting. 16: Chew Strong Mint Gum Chew sugarless gum with a strong flavor when you're at risk for a snack attack. Making dinner after work, at a party, watching TV, or surfing the Internet are a few dangerous scenarios for mindless snacking. Gum with a big flavor punch overpowers other foods so they don't taste good. 17: Shrink Your Dishes Chose a 10" lunch plate instead of a 12" dinner plate to automatically eat less. Cornell's Brian Wansink, PhD, found in test after test that people serve more and eat more food with larger dishes. Shrink your plate or bowl to cut out 100-200 calories a...

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How Does Haemodialysis Works?

Hemodialysis is a type of dialysis that uses a machine with an artificial filter to remove wastes and extra fluids from the blood. This treatment also helps control the chemical balance in your body and helps control blood pressure. Each treatment takes about 4 hours and is done 3 times each week. A dialysis machine pumps small amounts of blood out of the body and through a filter called an artificial kidney or dialyzer. This kidney filters extra fluid and wastes from the blood. The blood is then pumped back into your body. Medicine will be given to you to prevent your blood from clotting. Fluid, called dialysate, is added to the dialysis...

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The Secret To Surviving Nursing School

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What Are The Nursing Care Given To Haemodialysis Patients

When your kidneys do not work well, dialysis is needed to remove extra fluid and waste products such as creatinine and urea, as well as free water from the blood in your body.  It can be done either by haemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis, where the former is the most common choice among patients. Hemodialysis is a type of dialysis that uses a machine with an artificial filter to remove wastes and extra fluids from the blood. This treatment also helps control the chemical balance in your body and helps control blood pressure. Each treatment takes about 4 hours and is done 3 times each week.  The need for dialysis may be acute (when...

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Prenatal Pesticide Exposure Linked With Lower IQ

Babies exposed to pesticides before birth may have significantly lower intelligence scores by age 7 than children who were not exposed, three separate studies published on Thursday said. Results from the studies — two in New York and one in an agricultural community in California — suggest prenatal exposure to pesticides can have a lasting effect on intelligence. In one study, a team at the University of California Berkeley found that every tenfold increase in prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides corresponded with a 5.5 point drop in overall IQ scores in children by age 7. “That difference could mean, on average, more kids being shifted...

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Tips on How To Survive As A Student Nurse

My first day as a student nurse was frightening.  I can fell the ball rolling down my tummy and wanting to go to bathroom every now and then.  There were so many things questions in my mind. Will i make friends or will they like an older classmate.  Can i cope up with the lessons being out of education for over 10 years?  Can i really put into practice what i will learn in the class?  The worst is can i keep my promise to my husband that i can manage my time as a student, a wife and a mother!  For over a year now, i would say YES. In fact i am 1 of the deans list in the class and i have conquered all my fears during clinical posting time.  Though you fell scared on your first days on new hospital setting but definitely you be able to cope up once you are...

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