NUR1210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Sleep Hygiene, Permanent Teeth
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Stages of human development: infant: birth 1 year, toddler: 1 3 years, preschooler: 3 6 years, school-age child: 6 12 years, adolescent: 12 20 years. Ex: if a child is 12 month and 1 day this child is a toddler (even the child is only. 1-day past infancy) this child is not a infant anymore** General principles: development maturation is based on, functional behavior (meeting developmental tasks and milestones, ability to adapt to environment, directional pattern for muscular coordination and control, head-to-toe (cephalocaudal, trunk-to-periphery (proximodistal, gross-to fine, chronological age = age in years. Sometime children later in life can have condition which head is enlarge or very small of age: use the length of the child. Self-identity the child realizes he/she is different from their parent. *erickson"s is the main focus for this class. 4-month-old and achieved the developmental milestones of a 4-month- old. 40wks 28wks = 12wks = 3 months.
