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1			Name: Michelle Ortega		House: S		Topic: Neonatal Nursing
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6		Statements		Reasons		Verification (Source #, Author/Title)
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8	Foundation	a)	A Neonatal Nurse should know how to provide highly specialized care for critical patients.	a)	Providing highly technical and supportive care for ill infants and newborns is important for infant to development.	a)	#2 Neonatal Nursing Career Info.
9		b)	Late term infants have more difficulties adapting to their size.	b)	Its harder for them to maintain their body temperature and they require more sleep and need to be fed more.	b)	#5 Prematurity
10		c)	Black and White disparities are possibly due to social and environmental factors.	c)	Black college educated women have a much greater risk of LBW (Low Birth Weight) than white college educated women.	c)	#23 Decomposition of Black/White Differential in Birth Outcomes
11		d)	Infants born prematurely have a higher risk for poor outcomes.	d)	Birth complications include chronic health conditions, long term disability, and death.	d)	#26 Premature Birth Complications
12	EQ		EQ: What is the best way to ensure a premature baby grows healthy?		Given		Given
13	Answer 1	a)	Parental explanation is key when a parent has just birthed a premature infant.	a)	It is important to explain and inform parents on how to care for the baby before discharge so that the baby continues to grow healthy.	a)	#31 Safe Discharge of the late preterm infant
14		b)	Creating Opportunities for Parent Empowerment program reduces a premature infants hospital stay.	b)	Infants who were a part of the COPE program had a 32.5 day shorter hospital stay than those who weren't apart of the program.	b)	#34 Copeforhope.com
15		c)	COPE program lessens parental stress, depression and anxiety.	c)	Program helps parents make technical/ life threatening decisions for their infants.	c)	#36 Reducing Premature Infant of Stay
16		d)	Answer 1: The Creating Opportunities for Parent Empowerment program (COPE) informs parents on how to ensure healthy growth.	d)	Introducing the COPE program helps inform parents on how to care for the baby before discharge so that the baby can continue to grow healthy.	d)	#34 Copeforhope.com
17	Answer 2	a)	Good communication helps meet the emotional needs of a parent, and proves how supportive the NICU is.	a)	Apporiate information contributes to parent perception of having some control feeling overwhelmed in the situation.	a)	#35 Communication with parents of high risk infants
18		b)	Communication should be open, reflective, and responsive.	b)	Communication between a parent and NICU staff reduces worry.	b)	#37 Communcating with parents in the NICU
19		c)	Dissatisfied communication with staff increases stress and anxiety.	c)	Parents find it more difficult to establish a close relationship with their child when they are anxious.	c)	#38 Nutritional requirements and parenteral nutrition in preterm infants
20		d)	Answer 2: To provide good communication between patients and the NICU staff to help influence the decisions parents make for their babies.	d)	Satisfactory communication informs parent and educates a parent in making decisions for their infant.	d)	Interview 1 #46, 47
21	Answer 3	a)	The lack of nutrients from a mother to the fetus throughout the pregnancy leads to adverse outcomes.	a)	Increases the risk to infection and abnormal developments.	a)	#40 Nutritional requirements and parenteral nutrition in preterm infants
22		b)	Neonates receive there nutritional needs through breast milk or formula milk.	b)	The formula has a higher amount of fat and protein that helps meet the special growth needs of the infant.	b)	#42 Early feeding of fortified breast milk and in-hospital-growth in very premature infants: a retrospective cohort analysis
23		c)	Infants who are born prematurely need supplements to help them grow and develop.	c)	The supplements infants receive contain extra protein, calories, iron, calcium and vitamins the babies are in need of.	c)	#43 Parenteral Nutrition Additive Shortages: The Short-Term, Long-Term and Potential Epigenetic Implications in Premature and Hospitalized Infants
24		d)	Answer 3: By assuring neonates get the right nutrition they need in order to reach the ideal weight to continue to grow and develop.	d)	It is important to understand the nutritional needs of a premature infant because of the critical conditions they face so that the NICU can provide the infant with the best of their ability in ensuring they grow healthy.	d)	#44 Nutrient Requirements For Preterm Infant Formulas
25	Best Answer	If: My three answers in ensuring a premature baby grows healthy are: the Creating Opportunities for Parent Empowerment program (COPE) informs parents on how to ensure healthy growth, to provide good communication between patients and the NICU staff to help influence the decisions parents make for their babies, and By assuring neonates get the right nutrition they need in order to reach the ideal weight to continue to grow and develop.
26		Then: My best answer would have to be Creating Opportunities for Parent Empowerment program (COPE) to help inform parents on how to ensure healthy growth.
27		Because: My best answer is better than the other two because according to the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics from September 2001 to October 2004 patients who were apart of the COPE program had a 4 day decrease in hospital stay in the NICU oppose to those who weren't apart of the program.
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