The Management and Treatment of Jaundice in Neonates

The Management and Treatment of Jaundice in Neonates

Neonate’s physiological condition on family-related psychological issues

Neonates are a psychological condition that affects newborns that is fundamental of a different condition than that of the physiology of the grown children and adults (Maisels, Watchko, Bhutani, and Stevenson, 2012). The primary consideration and check are that the neonates among children keep changing from time to time as they grow up (Bratlid, Nakstad, and Hansen, 2011). Some of the aspects like cardiovascular alterations undergo various changes immediately after a newborn takes his or her first breath. Some of the other modifications within the process include haemoglobin change that occurs a few months after birth (Dani, Pratesi, Raimondi, and Romagnoli, 2015). Families that experience the cases of children being involved in the conditions of genetic disorders create conflicts and result in health complications. The physical changes led o the development of psychological issues that develop among the family setting platform. The condition is on an ongoing evolvement that can adapt to extrauterine life (Romagnoli et al., 2014). For example, it is vital to infants when taking their first breaths to ensure a complete shutdown to rewire their intrauterine cardiovascular shunts that are present in an infant’s body at the time of taking the first breath. Always, newborns have a deficiency of vitamin K that sets them under a great risk of hemorrhagic disease (Maisels, 2015). To ensure the hemorrhagic disease has been prevented, the infants should be fed with vitamin K prophylaxis.

Nursing assessment and management of the neonate

Upon the discovery of the neonatal condition that requires attention or action to be taken, the baby must be sent to a maternity floor or a nursery where the goal of going there is to offer to nurse (Boskabadi, Maamouri, Mafinejad, and Rezagholizadeh, 2011). The condition of the baby must be assessed and managed to help maintain and establish homeostasis (Stevenson and Wong, 2010). The provided care at the nursery or maternity floor can be shared with parents or guardians at the hospital or an arranged plan for care at home (Ullah, Rahman, and Hedayati, 2016). Assessment of the neonatal condition can be done through ways of evaluating the gestation period, the transition of the period of reactivity, the use of the Apgar scoring system, and performing a systematic physical examination to the baby for a proper provision of care management (Slusher et al., 2014). When assessing the neonatal condition of an infant, a complete check of the physical signs will include the vital and weighing the measures and neonates in terms of length and head. Once the assessment has been done on the baby, the management is applied through the introduction of the lacing vitamin K and other nutrients that can help the baby to have a healthy condition (Bhutani et al., 2013). The necessary steps towards proper management of the intake a baby require and offering an appropriate environment for growth.

Psychological and cultural issues in the nursing care of neonate and support for family

The psychological care within the family setting is based on the psychological and cultural bonding ways that are offered from the loved ones (Bhutani, 2011). The family members need to create an environment that can feel comfortable and accommodating to the babies who have a neonatal problem (Olusanya et al., 2016). When offering the care, society should support with setting positive and promising cultural behaviours that can motivate such parents and guardians to the neonatal babies getting good care and meeting their basic needs such as medication, food, and shelter (Lauer and Spector, 2011). The community also must create a supportive way of handling the cases of neonatal among babies (Rasul, Hasan, and Yasmin, 2010). Families and community setting have the duty of creating and supporting the families that have experienced and received babies to their families that are affected by neonatal problems. Some of the culture’s belief that such problems are associated with curses, but through the empowerment and sensitization of the people, it can offer support to the challenged individual who has the task of looking after and caring for the babies suffering from the neonatal problem (Rennie, Burman-Roy, and Murphy, 2010).

The role of the multidisciplinary team in managing the neonate and support of the family

The multidisciplinary team within the conduct of taming and preventing neonatal problems among babies is a way of helping to handle difficult situations that parents undergo while treating and engaging with the medical officers to help make the babes survive (Kaplan, Bromiker, and Hammerman, 2011). The challenge experienced during the first breath of the babies can cost their lives. Therefore, eh multidisciplinary teams have a task of ensuring that empowerment and encouragement to do the best has been instilled among the people within the community (Wolff, Schinasi, Lavelle, Boorstein, and Zorc, 2012). The offering of metal support to the families is a way of creating and sending a positive signal to the majority of the parents that need consolation due to the unfortunate conditions that their babies undergo in life while at their tender ages (Egube, Ofili, Isara, and Onakewhor, 2013). The family is helped through registration with the relevant agencies and authorities that deal with and handle neonatal conditions within society. The enrolment to the program can help in getting the financial and medical support that can be given by donors and well-wishers (Bhutani, Stark, Lazzeroni, Poland, Gourley, Kazmierczak, Meloy, Burgos, Hall, and Stevenson, 2013). The multidisciplinary team has a great task in the identification and encouragement of the families that have neonatal babies and do not have the courage of facing the condition and exposing the problem to the public for help (Greco et al., 2016). The team can seek for such families and bring them on board for help to reach the affected children.

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