Nursing 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dementia, Health Promotion, Self-Control
9 Dec 2016
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[week five lecture notes: life transitions 1] 1. Important milestones for physical, psychosocial, and cognitive development from infancy to adolescence. Growth is the physical changes that occur over lifespan. Predictable characteristics of g/d: the sequence of each stage is predictable, the pace of g/d is uneven, each stage has its own characteristics and target, growth and development occur in: Rather more of this: with biology, environment and interactions that contribute to g and d. Optimal development = enough (cid:498)right(cid:499) kind of stimuli and protection from too much (cid:498)wrong(cid:499) kind of stimuli. Critical and sensitive periods occur: ability for both eyes to work at the same time, nursing implications: encourage parents at that age to stimulate that, a mobile could help stimulate this, keys. Instinctual reflexes: crying expands the lungs, at 13 months an infant will have a one word, 2 years 2-4 words, 2-3 years 50 words, by three years 250 to 500 words.
