Childhood Immunizations
This immunization, given as early as just after birth, is given over three doses, to prevent infants from acquiring a certain viral liver infection.
What is Hepatitis B?
This stage of development according to Piaget is where language development and symbolic thought occur. This typically occurs in children aged 2 through 7.
What is the preoperational stage?
This fontanel is the first one to close, usually occurring between 6 to 8 weeks old.
What is the posterior fontanel?
Trust vs. mistrust occurs during this age range according to Erikson. Trust is gained when the child's needs are met and mistrust forms when the parents fail to meet the child's expectations.
When is from birth to twelve (12) months?
Immediately after birth, babies lose a lot of body heat via this method, where liquid on the baby's skin dries and dissipates into the atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
Unfortunately requiring 5 different shots, this vaccination series protects children from three different bacterial infections. Adults require a different formulation of this vaccine.
What is DTaP? (not TDaP, that's the adult variant)
Occurring in the sensorimotor stage of development, this process, starting between 9 and 10 months old, informs the infant that things do still exist even when they are out of view.
What is object permanence?
These will start erupting from the infant's mouth at around 6 to 10 months. They should have 6 to 8 of these by 12 months and nearly 20 of these by age 3.
What are teeth?
Erikson defines this trait, typically achieved by school-aged children, as the ability of the child to contribute to society through the development of skills and knowledge.
What is industry?
Well-fitting bras, ice packs, and cabbage leaves would be indicated for a client who does not want to nourish the baby via this methodology.
What is breastfeeding?
Infants with an allergy to gelatin or neomycin should not receive this vaccination, since gelatin is used as a stabilizing agent in this vaccine, and can cause anaphylaxis to occur.
What is Varicella (chicken pox)?
During the toddler to preschooler years, kids might start doing this process, wherein they start attributing feelings and motives to inanimate objects.
What is animism?
After roughly this many months of living, the infant should be able to roll over from front to back, sit whilst leaning forward, and use their arms to get them up from the prone position.
What is six (6) months?
The ability of adolescents to view themselves as unique individuals is defined by Erikson as this.
What is identity?
This antibiotic is frequently applied on the baby's eyes shortly after birth. Used from inner to outer canthus, it is used to prevent conjunctivitis prophylactically whilst making the infant's eyes look "glazed".
What is erythromycin?
The Rotavirus vaccine, specifically the RV5 series, is given in this many doses, starting at roughly 2 months of age and with 2 months between doses.
What is three (3) doses?
The ability to empathize, tell time, solve complex problems, and to transition from perceptual to conceptual thinking occurs during this Piaget stage of development.
What is concrete operational?
An infant's weight is expected to triple their birth weight after this many months of existence.
What is twelve (12) months?
This negative Erikson trait can occur when preschoolers believe they have misbehaved or when they are unable to accomplish a task appointed to them by an authority figure.
What is guilt?
Oxytocin and methylergonovine are used as part of emergency treatment for this condition, where mothers bleed excessively after birth.
What is postpartum hemorrhage?
Rotavirus, Haemophilus influenzae type b, Pneumococcal conjugate, DTaP, and IPV are all medications expected to be administered to a child of this age.
What is two (2) months old?
Preschoolers might experience this variation in thought, where they focus entirely on one aspect and fail to consider any alternative possibilities.
What is centration?
The ability to run, walk up a few steps without assistance, use a spoon, and kick a ball should be achieved by roughly this age.
What is twenty-four (24) months old? (or two years old)
This Erikson trait is demonstrated with skills such as feeding, dressing, mobility, and elimination. Toddlers begin to explore the environment beyond those most familiar to them and start to form individual interests.
What is autonomy?
This condition is characterized by harmless, temporary swelling of the infant's scalp that crosses the suture line. It is typically found in infants who experienced a prolonged or difficult delivery.
What is caput succedaneum?