Relection paragraph on sources

I didnt have much luck on my finding because if I found Something about the NICU it would be the same information that I found before. I did find different information sometimes if I had any luck. The most useful information that I have found was on the March Of Dimes website.The website that was the most trustworthly would be the March Of Dimes again because it focus's just on premature babies. I didnt detect any Bias durning my search.

Citations

Morrissette,Cheryl. "All About The NICU. 23 March 2010. About. com:preemies. April 19 2010. http://preemies.about.com/od/allaboutthenicu/a/NICUPart1.htm.
"Neonatolody On the Web". Created 8/1/99 /. 21 APRIL 2010.A Career in Neonatology
http://www.neonatology.org/career/default.html
Molnar,Felica. " Guide To Pregnancy" New York:Dorling Kindersley Publishing. 2001
"Caring for Babies in the NICU" 2010. Article Online 20 April 2010
http://www.lpch.org/DiseaseHealthInfo/HealthLibrary/hrnewborn/carehub.html
March of Dimes. 2010. Premature Birth 14 April 2010
http://www.marchofdimes.com/prematurity/21292.asp

Refleaction paragraph on process

Durning my search I felt good but it was kinda diffcult because they didnt really have much information on the NICU. When I did find a website it would always say the same thing about the NICU. What I disliked was everything I read was about the same thing. If I had to do this project again I would choose something differently because I would need to find a topic that has more information because I didnt find much on the NICU.

Wordle #2

Reflection paragraph on findings

Some of the most important facts that I have learned is that if it wasnt for the NICU Idont think half the babies would be alive including me because I was a premature baby. I also learned all of the different names that doctors and nurse's are called. I didnt know that before. What was most surprising to me was thow many babies are in the NICU per year. I do still have a few questions and they are
* Do we need a high school diploma to work there?
*How does it benefit us and the babies. But, im sure I will find it soon.
Those are the only few questions that I have left. I feel very good about my topic now because I now know alot than I knew before about the NICU. I feel like if somebody would quiz me about the NICU than I would be so ready. I would ace that test.

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How many staff workers work in the NICU?
No one is really sure how many workers there are because it changes everyday. I did find all of the different names there were for people who work in the NICU. By: (David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc., and Neil K. Kaneshiro, MD, MHA, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine.) What I already know is that there are alot of people that work there i just wasnt sure how many there was.
*AUDIOLOGIST
*CARDIOLOGIST
*CARDIOVASCULAR SURGEON
*DERMATOLOGIST
*DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICIAN
*DIETICIAN
*ENDOCRINOLOGIST
*GASTROENTEROLOGIST
*GENETICIST
*HEMATOLOGIST-ONCOLOGIST
*NEPHROLOGIST
*OPHTHALMOLOGIST
*UROLOGIST
Those are some of the doctors names that work in the NICU they all have a special part of helping a baby survive. If it wasnt for them the babies wouldnt be alive.
http://adam.about.com/encyclopedia/NICU-consultants-and-support-staff.htm

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What kind of machines does the NICU use?
When a baby is relatively stable but still premature or requiring intravenous fluids or other special attention, he or she is cared for in an "incubator." The incubator keeps the baby warm with moistened air in a clean environment, and helps to protect the baby from noise, drafts, infection, and excess handling. Incubators are sometimes called "isolettes," but "Isolette" is actually a brand name for a particular company's incubator product. and support diverse modes of operation, There are many more machines that the NICU uses.What I already know is that most of the machines that the NICU uses help the babies survive.Im sure if it wasn't for the machines than the premature babies.
*The NICU uses other machines to
* A warmer
*incubator
*The scale
* A physiologic monitor
*The pulse oximeter
* The Dinamap
*Infant ventilators
*An oscillator
* A blender
*IV pumps
*Phototherapy lights
* A drainage pump
*A blood gas
*The lightbox
*digital era
* A transport incubator
*A defibrillator

(Equipment in the NICU)


http://www.neonatology.org/tour/equipment.html

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What is the NICU?
The NICU is the neonatal intensive care unit and its also known for a nursery for premature babies. The NICU specializes just for premture babies which are babies who were born early or babies who werent healthly when they came out. The NICU has many workers also know as neonatologists. They always have somebody in the NICU to watch over the premature babies. The nurse's in the NICU have to keep a good eye on them and they gotta make sure they give the babies the right amount of medicine because is they mess up the baby could die. Every hosptial that delivery's babies has a NICU. That is what the NICU is. I know that the NICU helps premature babies and they help the baby breath when they come out if there not breathing but not every baby has to go to the NICU when there born. "You hear so many people talk about the March of Dimes in terms of preemies, but it is about every healthy baby that is born," Heidi said. "I was speaking earlier this year and had one mother who came up to me and said she never realized just how much they did" (Christensen). She is talking about the NICU and how it helped her baby. That paragraph helps me understand it alot more. It helps me because it tells me what the NICU is.

Quote,Paraphrase,and Citation #5

What Is a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit?
A Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is a special area of the hospital that is devoted to the care of critically ill babies. Typically a NICU is completely separated from the nursery for healthy newborns, and may not even be in the same building (the nursery is always located near the rooms for the mothers). The staff for the NICU and the staff for the newborn nursery are completely separate as well.
In most hospitals, babies are only admitted to the NICU directly from the delivery room, the newborn nursery, or from another hospital's NICU or nursery. For reasons of infection control, if a baby has gone home and then gotten sick and come back to the hospital, the baby will probably be admitted to a pediatric ward or pediatric intensive care unit rather than the NICU. Of course, exceptions can be made if the baby has a problem that definitely requires the constant attention of a neonatologist.
Babies usually stay in the NICU until they are ready to go home, even if that takes several months. This is much different than an adult or pediatric intensive care unit, where the patient will leave the unit as soon as they are stable and do not need help with their breathing and constant monitoring. For this reason, NICUs are often divided by walls or partitions into several distinct regions: a true "intensive care" area where the nurses and doctors spend most of their time at the babies' bedsides, an "intermediate care" area for babies that are still on IVs or extra oxygen, and a quieter area for the "growers."
http://www.neonatology.org/career/default.html

This paragraph shows and explains what the NICU is and what it stands for. The other names that they call the NICU.

Quote,Paraphrase,and Citation #4

There have been many advances in the care of sick and premature babies, not just in technology and medicine, but also in meeting the special emotional and developmental needs of these babies. In the NICU, babies are often subjected to tests, procedures, noises, and lights - very different from the warm, dark, comfort of the mother's womb. Some babies are too sick to be held or have difficulty comforting themselves when not being held. Premature babies especially need a supportive environment to help them continue to mature and develop as they would in their mother's womb.

This paragraph shows hpw premature babies and what they do in the NICU to help your baby stay alive. Also to get them to breath on a regular basis.

http://www.lpch.org/DiseaseHealthInfo/HealthLibrary/hrnewborn/carehub.html

Graph and Citation

http://www.prembaby.org.au/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/graph1.JPG

The Citation.
This graph shows the survival rate in a womens stomach if they werent a preme. If they are it shows how much the NICU helps the babies survive.

Quote,Paraphrase, and Citation #3

Neonatology: Neonatologists are pediatricians with additional training in the care of newborn babies. Neonatal nurse practitioners, or advanced practice nurses who specialize in care of newborns, and doctors in training to be pediatricians (residents) or neonatologists (fellows) may also help care for your baby under the supervision of an attending neonatologist.
Nursing: Nurses provide most of the day-to-day assessment and care of babies in the NICU. They work closely with parents and with neonatology to ensure the best care for the babies under their care.
Respiratory therapy: Respiratory therapists manage respiratory equipment, such as ventilators and CPAP machines to make sure they are functioning according to doctors’ orders. They may also provide breathing treatments.
Occupational and physical therapists: Premature babies require special positioning to promote healthy growth and development, may need special help to make sure they are learning to eat well, and may benefit from infant massage. Occupational therapists (OTs) and physical therapists (PTs) provide these services.

http://preemies.about.com/od/allaboutthenicu/a/NICUPart1.htm

This explains what the staff does all the different names. How well they take care of the babies. How they do it. It tells what the nurse's name are and what they do for a living also known as Neonatologists.

Photo,Caption, and Citation #3

This is a picture of 3 babies that were being taken care of at the NICU. They were triplits and a nurse or somebody who works there to keep and good eye because they were all premature.
http://bubblegumtree.typepad.com/.a/6a0112791449e528a40120a8679f20970b-500wi

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A neonatal intensive care unit, usually shortened NICU (sometimes pronounced "Nickyou") and also called a newborn intensive care unit, intensive care nursery (ICN), and special care baby unit (SCBU [pronounced "Skiboo"], especially in Great Britain), or a humidicrib, is a unit of a hospital specializing in the care of ill or premature newborn infants. The NICU is distinct from a special care nursery (SCN) in providing a high level of intensive care to premature infants while the SCN provides specialized care for infants with less severe medical problems.
A NICU is typically directed by one or more neonatologists and staffed by nurses, nurse practitioners, Nursery Nurses, physician assistants, resident physicians, and respiratory therapists. Many other ancillary services are necessary for a top-level NICU. Other physicians, especially those with "organ-defined" specialties often assist in the care of these infants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonatal_intensive-care_unit
This is basically saying what the NICU does and how it helps premature babies and it also tells you the other names people call the NICU. It always tells me what i need to become if i wanted to work in the NICU. that was one of my questions.

Photo,Caption,and Citation #2

This is a premature baby. This shows what they use to help the babies breath. This helps because I was a premature baby and I like to see how they helped me survive.

http://www.adoptionblogs.com/media/CrisisPregnancy/nicu1.jpg

Quote, Paraphrase,and citation #1

Quote: "Understanding Your Feelings
Your baby is in a neonatal intensive care unit. If at first you feel distant from your baby, you may wonder if there is something wrong with you. Rest assured that feeling distant is a normal reaction for parents during the early weeks of their infant's NICU stay.Which Babies Need Care in the NICU?
About 10 to 15 percent of babies born in the United States each year are treated in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The reasons include premature birth, difficult delivery, breathing problems, infections and birth defects. The NICU Roller Coaster
The NICU stay can be like a roller coaster ride, with ups and downs. But there are things parents can do to help them cope."

Paraphrase: This explains how many babies the NICU takes care in a year.This is a answer to one of my research questions. It also explains what the NICU is and what it does.


Citation: http://www.marchofdimes.com/prematurity/21292.asp

Photo, Caption,and Citation #1

http://www.trixrosenphotography.com/Commercial/0-opener/NICU-sq.jpg


This is one of the NICU machines. WHen a baby uis transported into the NICU this is what they are put in. I was in one of these for 3 hours. It relates to my topic because this is what premature babies go in. This is part of the NICU.

Wordle #1

Preliminary links and Descriptions

http://kidshealth.org/parent/system/ill/nicu_diagnoses.html

Kids health wrote this information. This information is useful to me because it explains to me what the NICU is. It also tells you the other names that they call the NICU and how they only take small premature babies.

http://www.marchofdimes.com/prematurity/21292.asp

The March Of Dimes wrote this information.This is useful because it tells me how many babies a year they take into the NICU. That is one of my questions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonatal_intensive-care_unit

Wikipedia wrote this information. It will Help me because it explains how the NICU helps the babies and how they keep the babies at at normal temperature.

http://preemies.about.com/od/allaboutthenicu/a/NICUPart1.htm

About.com wrote this source. This is useful for me because it tells me everything I need to know about the NICU. It answers some of my questions.

Animoto based on search questions.

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What i want to know about my topic

I wanna know quite a few things about my topic.

*What is the NICU?
*How many people work there?
*How it benifits us and the babies?
*The machines they use to help the Babies?
*How many babies they take care a year?
*Do you need a high school diploma to become a NICU nurse?

What i know about my topic

I already know that the NICU helps premature babies and sick babies. My mom was telling what the NICU is but her explanation did work to well on me. So I decided to research it and find out myself. My mom also told mw what she knew but that also didnt tell me much. That is what I already know about the NICU.

The story behind my topic

I was a premature baby. I just wanted to know how the NICU helped me survive. When I came out I wasnt breathing so I also wanted to see the types of machines they used to help me survive. When I get older I do want to become a NICU nurse.