Newborns and babies
Newborns and babies are made resistant or immune to a specific infectious disease through immunization, which involves an administration of a vaccine. The immunization schedules vary depending on the children’s health, availability of the vaccine, and the type of vaccine. The newborn care, on the other hand, involves through and immediate drying, cord-cutting, and clamping after birth and exclusive breastfeeding. The paper will develop a nursing diagnosis, the learning objectives, teaching methods, utilizing and providing teaching aids regarding immunization schedule for the newborn and the newborn care.
The NANDA, a professional body in North America, manages various nursing diagnoses, including immunization and newborn care. Based on the cultural, developmental, and social-economic factors that affect a child or a client, the clinical attendant recommends two immunization doses for the children aged 6 to 8years for flu or influenza vaccine. The client is given two HepA vaccine doses for long-lasting protection. The HepA dose is typically given to the newborn aging 12-23 months, while the second dosage is given six months after the completion of the first dose. The adolescents and children over 24 months of age would receive 2 HepA vaccine doses if they were not vaccinated. In the early hours of life, the newborn gets vitamin k, eye care, and healthcare immunizations, for example, the hepatitis B and OPV vaccines. Also, the newborn is assessed for gestation age, birth weight, newborn illness, and congenital disabilities. Special care is provided for low birth weight, sick newborns, and those exposed to HIV infections.
It is critical to demonstrate and anticipate learning needs based on social and developmental goals and assessments. The primary learning objectives of integrating learning and teaching involves conducting immunization session, attending village nutrition, and health day with immunization vaccines. It consists of setting up an area of immunization to verify immunization age and record of the child. The other objective involves planning for vaccination through enumeration of children and mothers and school teachers to enhance immunization services through motivation and mobilizing mothers to attend immunization schedules and sessions.
The public health should use teaching methods such as creating accurate and positive attitudes through interactive and fun approaches to enhance schedules of immunization for the newborn and care. Also, leveraging digital technologies could offer an effective way of delivering messages to mothers to complement immunization and immune system education in the school curricula. The public officials dealing with health should identify and explore the most critical ways of delivering digital messages to mothers and children to inoculate the coming generations against immunization and vaccine hesitancy.
The teaching aid involves cleaning the postnatal room, everyday care. The place for the postpartum room should remain warm, maintaining a room temperature of not less than 250 C to preserve the warmth of the baby. Furthermore, everyday care involves breastfeeding, where health workers should be skilled and knowledgeable enough to support breastfeeding mothers. They should understand the correct attachment and positioning of the baby when breastfeeding. Besides, the health workers should give accurate information to the mothers about infant feeding. Also, hygiene and danger signs could be taught to mothers to recognize symptoms and signs that indicate that the child is unwell. Immunization, weight gain, and feeding adequacy and follow up are other teaching aids that should coincide with the schedules of vaccines to enhance the healthy growth of the newborn.