NURS 1400
Growth and Development
Infancy through Adolescence
Unit V
Physiological Development-Infant
• Weight and height
• Head growth
• Motor development
– Gross motor: ability to use large muscle groups to maintain balance for postural control and for locomotion
– Fine motor: ability to coordinate hand-to-eye movement in an orderly and progressive manner
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Psychosexual Development
Cognitive development: Piaget’s sensorimotor stage has four substages
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4.
Reflexes
Primary circular reactions
Secondary circular reaction
Coordination of secondary schema
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Psychosocial Development
• Erikson
• Trust versus mistrust
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Health Promotion
• Health screening
– Phenylketonuria
– Iron-deficiency anemia
– Lead poisoning
– Hypothyroidism
• Immunizations
• Vision screening
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Health Promotion
• Hearing screening
• Dental care
• Nutrition
– Breast milk or formula
– Solid foods
– Weaning
– Use of pacifier
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Health Promotion
• Communication
– Receptive language
– Expressive language
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Health Promotion
• Temperament
– Activity
– Rhythmicity
– Approachwithdrawal
– Adaptability
– Intensity of response
– Threshold of responsiveness
– Mood
– Distractibility
– Attention span and persistence
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Health Promotion
• Colic
– Recurrent episodes of unexplained crying and inability to be consoled
• Sleep
– Sleep consolidation
– Diurnal cycle
– Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
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Health Promotion
• Stranger and separation anxiety
• Alternative child care
– Center-based care
– Family child care
– In-home care
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Health Promotion
• Play
• Safety promotion and injury prevention: family teaching
– Safety checklist
– Hidden dangers
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NURS 1400
Growth and Development of the Toddler Unit V
Physiological Development
• Neurological system
• Musculoskeletal system
• Gastrointestinal and genitourinary systems
– Decreased appetite: physiologic anorexia
• Cardiorespiratory system
• Sensory system
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Psychosexual Development
• Freud: anal stage
• Domestic mimicry: imitation of domestic roles and activity
• Family teaching
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Psychosocial Development
• Gaining self-control
• Developing autonomy
• Increasing independence
• Psychosocial milestones
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Cognitive Development
• Milestones
• Communication with toddlers
• Piaget
– Sensorimotor phase
– Preconceptual phase
• Moral development
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Health Promotion
• Negativism: “No!”
• Ritualism and regression
– Ritualism: need to maintain sameness
– Regression: return to earlier, safer, more familiar behavior
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Health Promotion
• Discipline
– Limit setting
– Appropriate discipline
– Corporal punishment
• Sibling rivalry
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Health Promotion
• Temper tantrums
• Toilet training
• Child care
• Play
• Nutrition
• Sleep
• Dental health
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• Developmentally specific prevention
• Auto safety
• Home and environmental safety
• Water safety
• Toy injuries
• Gun safety
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Routine Health Screening
• Health monitoring
• Immunizations
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NURS 1400
Growth and Development of the Preschooler Unit V
Physiological Development
• Physical growth
– Slows
– Body systems mature
• Gross and fine motor development
– Increased eye-hand coordination
– Improved muscle coordination
– Development of fine motor skills
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Psychosexual Development
• Freud: Oedipal or phallic
• Sexual curiosity
• Caregiver’s role
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Cognitive Development
• Cognitive ability
• Piaget’s preoperational stage
– Egocentrism
– Animism
– Transductive reasoning
– Idiosyncratic
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Cognitive Development
• Fear
• Language
– Increased vocabulary
– Telegraphic speech
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Psychosocial Development
• Erikson: initiative versus guilt
• Superego
• Caregiver’s role
• Socialization
• Family relations
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Moral and Spiritual Development
• Preconventional or premoral stage
• Faith and religion
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Health Promotion
• Nutrition
– Food pyramid
– Snacks
– Serving size
– Childhood obesity
• Sleep and rest
– Bedtime routines: family teaching
– Sleep disturbances
• Nightmares
• Sleep terrors
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Health Promotion
• Activity
– Physical games and sports
– Emphasis on physical fitness
– Play: appropriate toys
– Literacy: reading to child
– TV and other media
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Health Promotion
• Dental health
– Care of teeth
– Dentist visits
– Avoid sugary snacks
– Night grinding
• Safety and injury prevention
– Supervision
– Injury prevention guidelines
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Health Screenings
• Yearly well-child checks
– Vision
– Hearing
– Blood pressure
• Immunizations
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Health Screenings
• Assess for:
– Hyperlipidemia risk
– High-dose lead exposure
– Tuberculosis
– Common illnesses
• Otitis media
• Colds
• Gastrointestinal disturbances
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Preparation for School
• Benefits of early childhood programs
• Family teaching: preparation for first day of school
• Discipline
• Limit setting
• Time-outs
• Reverse attention
• Diverting aggressive behaviors
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NURS 1400
Growth and Development of the School-Age Child Unit V
Physiological Development
• Musculoskeletal
– Weight increases
– Height increases
– Basic gross motor skills
• Cardiorespiratory
– Increased efficiency
– Decrease in pulse rate
– Decrease in heart rate
– Tidal volume doubles
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Physiological Development
• Dental
• Immune system
• Sexual development
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Psychosexual Development
• Freud: latency
• Sexual development
– Puberty
– Menarche
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Cognitive Development
• Piaget: concrete operations
• Language and reading
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Psychosocial Development
• Peers
• Erikson: industry versus inferiority
• Self-concept and self-esteem
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Moral Development
• Kohlberg stage: conventional level
• Conscience develops
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Health Promotion
• Nutrition
– Dietary guidelines
– Family teaching: steps to avoid obesity
• Sleep
– Somnambulism
– Somniloquy
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Health Promotion
• Dental health
– Care of teeth
– Malocclusion
– Braces
• Safety and injury prevention
– Contributing factors
– Safety rules for school-age children
• Health screening
• Immunizations
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School
• Physical development
• Intellectual development
• Social development
• Homework
• Play
– Physical capabilities
– Concept of cooperation
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School
• Physical activity
– Overall health
• Sports
• Peers
• Body image
• Bullying
– Lack of social skills
– School nurse’s role
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School
• Stress: signs and symptoms
– Frequent fatigue
– Irritability
– Change in sleep or eating patterns
– Complaints of headache or stomachache
– Substance abuse
– Drop in academic performance
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School
• Latchkey children
– Tips for latchkey children
• Dishonesty
• Limit setting and discipline
• Sexuality
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• Role model for children, teachers, and caregivers
• Encourage caregivers to foster independence
• Promote acceptable limit setting
• Education for nutrition, exercise, rest, sexuality, and safety
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NURS 1400
Growth and Development of the Adolescent Unit V
Physiological Development
• Puberty
– State of physical development when secondary sex characteristics begin to appear, sexual organs mature, reproduction first becomes possible, and the adolescent growth spurt starts
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Physiological Development
• Adolescence
– The time of life that begins with puberty and ends when the individual is physically and psychologically mature and able to assume adult responsibilities
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Physiological Development
• Musculoskeletal system
– Adolescent growth spurt
– Female peak height velocity (PHV): 11 years old or 6–12 months before menarche
– Male peak height velocity: about 13 years old
– Weight increases follow the same growth curve as height
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Physiological Development
• Genitourinary system
– Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)
– Luteinizing hormone (LH)
– Tanner stages
• Females: describes breast and pubic hair development
• Males: describes testes, penis, scrotum, and pubic hair development
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Physiological Development
• Cardiorespiratory system
– Heart
– Lungs
• Neurological systems
– Brain growth
• Gastrointestinal system
– Teeth
– Gastric acidity and capacity
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Psychosexual Development
• Freud’s psychosexual theory
• Body image
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Cognitive Development
• Cognitive socialization
– Lev Vygotsky’s theory: zone of proximal development (ZPD)
• Social perspective taking
– Selman’s theory: social perspective taking ability
• Moral development
• Religiosity
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Adolescent Egocentrism
• Elkind: capacity to consider others’ thoughts is crux of adolescent egocentrism
• Imaginary audience: adolescents’ beliefs of always being on stage
• Personal fable: adolescents’ exaggerated notion of their own uniqueness
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• Identity
• Identity statuses
• Gender identity
– Cognitive reasoning and personal identity
• Intimacy
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Adolescents in Context
• Families
– Caregiver socialization: caregiver responsiveness and expectations
– Attachment and autonomy
– Caregiver-adolescent conflict
– Divorce and remarriage
– Sibling relationships
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Adolescents in Context
• Peers
– Peer influence
– Caregivers and peers
• Dating
• Schools
• Work and career development
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• Caring environment
• Treat adolescents with dignity
• Assessment with purpose of improving health, describing health-promoting behaviors, and increasing understanding
• Family relationships
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Health Promotion
• Immunizations
• Nutrition
• Dental health
• Sleep, rest, and activity
• Safety and injury prevention
• Risky behaviors
• Violence
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Health Promotion
• Sexual activity
• Homosexuality
• Television
• Suicide
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NURS 1400
Infectious Diseases Unit V
Anatomy and Physiology
• Immature immune system
• Pathogens
• Transmission
– Infectious agent
– Reservoir
– Mode of transmission
– Portal of entry to host
– Susceptible host
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• Ability of pathogen to survive
• Asymptomatic or carrier state
• Dose of infection
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• Home
• Day care or school
• Community
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• Infants
– Vertical transmission
– Mobility
– Hand-to-mouth behaviors
• Toddlers and preschoolers
– Toilet training
– Day care
– Objects in mouth
– Small animals
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• School-age children
– Lack of hygienic practices
– Sharing with friends
• Adolescents
– Immunizations
– Sexual contact
– Risk of drug use increases
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• Factors increasing infection
• Family teaching
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Immunizations
• Schedule of immunizations
• Combination vaccines
• Cultural considerations
• Vaccine handling and storage
• The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act
• Precautions and contraindications
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Nursing Management
• Clinical manifestation
• Etiology
• Incidence
• Incubation period
• Therapeutic management
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Nursing Management
• Resources
• Care of children
• Sexually transmitted diseases
• Reporting to Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
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Future Directions
• New vaccines
• Drug resistance
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Child Abuse and Neglect Unit V
• Child neglect: harmful, malicious, or ignorant withholding of physical, nutritional, or health care or emotional and educational necessities
• Child abuse: range of intentional behaviors by parent or caregiver that can involve neglect, physical, emotional, and/or sexual abuse
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• Physical abuse: bodily injury to a child that appears to have been inflicted by other than accidental means
• Psychological abuse: results from habitual lack of attention to a child’s needs
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• Sociological model
• Social-interactional systemic perspective model
• Attachment model
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• Unexplained bruises, scars, welts in various stages of healing
• Unexplained swollen extremity
• Bite marks
• Bruises shaped like recognizable objects
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• Burns
– “Stocking” or “glove” type burns
– Splash burns
– Flexion burns
– Contact burns
• Shaken baby syndrome
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• Withdrawal
• Depression
• Sad mood
• Anger
• Hostility
• Frightened when approached
• May harm siblings, peer, pets, neighborhood animals
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Physical Abuse
• Diagnosis
• Treatment
• Nursing assessment
– Physical assessment categories
– Psychological assessment categories
– Interpersonal assessment: caregiver
– Interviewing the child
– Interviewing the caregiver
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Munchausen Syndrome/Munchausen Syndrome by
Proxy
• Warning signs
• Nursing management
– Establishing trusting relationship
– Assessing family dynamics
– Patterns of illness
– Quality of relationships: careful documentation
– Corroborating histories with appropriate professionals
– Review with multidisciplinary teams
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Child Abandonment and Neglect
• Abandonment
• Physical neglect
• Medical neglect
• Custody-related neglect
• Emotional neglect
• Educational neglect
• Nursing management of child abandonment and neglect
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Psychological Abuse
• Omission
• Commission
• Indicators of psychological abuse
• Assessment scales identify children and caregivers at risk
• Nursing management
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Sexual Abuse
• Sexual abuse
• Assault
• Date or acquaintance rape
• Incest
• Exploitation
• Exhibitionism
• Pedophilia
• Child molestation
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Sexual Abuse
• Factors describing the experience of sexually abused children
– Traumatic sexualization
– Stigmatization
– Betrayal and powerlessness
• Assessment of sexual abuse
• Family teaching
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Child Abuse and Neglect
• Strategies to prevent child abuse and neglect
– Preventing maladaptive behaviors
– High-risk communities
– Child’s ability to recognize and resist assault
• Legal issues related to child abuse and neglect
• Reporting child abuse
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