Posts tagged neonatal nursing
5 Neonatal Sepsis Nursing Care Plans
Neonatal Sepsis is an infection in the blood that spreads throughout the body and occurs in a neonate. Neonatal Sepsis is also termed as Neonatal Septicemia and Sepsis Neonatorum. Neonatal Sepsis has 2 types: The one that is seen in the first week of life is termed as Early- onset More >
Pre-Eclampsia Nursing Care Plans
Preeclampsia is a disorder of widespread vascular endothelial malfunction and vasospasm that occurs after 20 weeks’ gestation. It is clinically defined by hypertension and proteinuria. Preeclampsia is part of a spectrum of disorders that includes gestational hypertension, severe preeclampsia, and eclampsia. Although each of these disorders can appear in isolation, they More >
Nursing Care of the Newborn
Newborns undergo profound physiologic changes at the moment of birth, as they are released from a warm, snug, dark liquid-filed environment that has met all of their basic needs, into a chilly, unbounded, brightly lit, gravity based outside world.
Within minutes after being plunged into this strange environment, a newborn’s body More >
Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) is a respiratory problem that occurs most often in preterm infants, infants of diabetic mothers, infants born by cesarean birth, or those who for any reason have decreased blood perfusion of the lungs, such as meconium aspiration.
The pathologic feature of RDS is a hyaline-like (clear or glass More >
