Child Health Patterns

Children and young people’s health and development is closely linked to their dietary choice as they need the right amount of nutrients necessary to keep their energy and to maintain the body for growth, tissue repair, healthy skin, hair and teeth, red blood cells and strong immune system.

When assessing a child you must be careful to take into account confidentiality before carrying out an observation you must have parents and the settings permission and not to leave confidential material lying around they must be secured in a locked cabinet. Only talk to authorized personal about

The screening was conducted at the child’s home, which was beautiful and well-kept with a vast selection of games and books. He lives with his parents, older brother and grandparents in his grandparent’s home. This is a temporary living situation until the family moves overseas in the next year for work. The child was alert, well groomed and appropriately dressed in jeans and a t-shirt with a pleasant affect. He was not fearful and had an attention span appropriate of a five year old. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2014) a five year old should seek to please others and is likely to agree with the rules. B. F was eager to participate and promptly followed all directions which showed he was socially appropriate for a five year old. He appeared healthy and at an appropriate height and weight for his age.

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List two potential problems that a nurse may discover in an assessment of each age group.

earlier clinical interviews include the risk of leading the child to views he does not possess due to

Because school-aged children’s families are busy, they have more of a potential for skipped and/or missed meals, which leads to fast food intake. This places the child at risk for obesity and metabolic disorders. This again leads back to parenting. Education is important when it comes to nutrition.

Childhood obesity is a growing problem in America. "the percentage of obese children doubling from 6.5% in 1980, to 17.0% in 2006. Weight, nutrition, and physical activity are the main components to a child’s overall health.”(1) “When parents become too busy to cook meals in their homes, children learn poor eating habits and develop into unhealthy eaters.”(1) They will take what they learned at home and apply it to anywhere else that they eat. For example a child that drinks milk at dinner and sits with their family at dinner when asked what they want to drink when they are at a friend’s home will ask for milk because the child would associate milk with dinner. Children cannot make healthy choices of their own they need to be guided so

My patient was a pleasant eleven year old male who didn’t display any major health disorders besides being slightly overweight. His mother was present during the process and the patient was able to provide reliable information. I did a good job communicating with them both keeping in mind the developmental level of the patient. We discussed several things ranging from his eating habits to his playing

Foods and their nutrients are essential to life. In the beginning years of life an infant’s nutritional health depends on the family unit. Parents must have knowledge of the changing food needs of the child and must also have sufficient resources to provide food, shelter, and clothing for the family. Equally important, parents create the cultural and psychological environment that influences the

It is also pertinent that we modify our assessment techniques according to the age and developmental stage of the child patient, including the family to solidify trust and establish said therapeutic relationships (London, et al., 2017). Sophia is aged nine, Piaget philosophizes that at this age, children begin applying logic and reasoning to concrete events; and, begin to reason more accurately. We can assume that Sophia will be able to follow instructions, communicate her needs and emotions, and answer questions if we present them in an age appropriate manner (Berk,

Within this particular question I have chosen to examine my son, who is fourteen years of age and just beginning his freshman year of high school. In addition, also to be examined will be my daughter, who is seventeen (17) years of age and is just beginning her freshman year of college.

The aim of the presentation was to inform early years practitioners the importance of educating and constructing a long-term health eating habits. Our presentation briefly highlighted the topic’s history, the government and department of education’s participation in the significant of healthy eating. Also my part was to explain, the psychological cognitive biases routed into our evolutionally need for high calories food, which could stand the way of establishing health eating habits, plus methods to change those perceptions. Furthermore inform the five food groups and importance of using them to produce balance health diet. Finally, advantages and disadvantages on healthy eating and the significances of encouraging parent’s participation in long-term healthy eating habits for their children.

Parents was going to be asked by clinicians to fill the form before attending the initial appointment. The aim was to increase parental awarness about healthy eating and its impact on the child's emotional and mental health.Also, it was to help clinicians in their work as this could help them to have a better insight into child's diet and give them opportunity to speak with parents more openly about the role of nutrition in the child's mental and emotional wellbeing.

Many programs and models help in indicating health conditions among various people. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health model (ICF) is an approach to identifying variables contributing to a person’s overall health. This model consists of health (condition, personal dimension, ({participation restriction, activity limitation, and body structure and function impairments}), and contextual factors ({personal and environmental factors}) (Abeysekara et al., 2014, p. 509). Even with programs that promote healthy eating habits among children and youth with special health care needs, parental feeding behaviors are a concern as well. The problem seems to be that weight related concerns develop among parent and child. Parents are oblivious to the fact when purchasing food, preparing food, pressuring the child to eat when not hungry, they are contributing to the problem at hand (Polfuss et al., 2017, p. 1087). Many parents focus more on appointments in order to help their child, they forget about healthy eating habits. After finishing a day full of appointments, parents feel they are putting a burden on their child when trying to engage them in physical activities. Instead they reward the child with movies, games, sweets, and rest. Giving parents insight on how to effectively encourage physical activity and helping to promote healthy dietary habits could be useful.