Paediatric Nursing: Prioritization of Clinical Assessments and Diagnostic Data for Hyperbilirubinemia Babies

Paediatric
Nursing

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Identify the prioritization of relevant clinical assessments and diagnostic data presented by
hyperbilirubinemia babies......................................................................................................3
Based on paediatric nursing care discuss how nurses should explain the aetiology risk factors
for worsened hyperbilirubinemia treatment and effective support for jaundice babies by nurses
to their parents........................................................................................................................5
Assessment of jaundice..........................................................................................................6
Hospital management of pathologic jaundice........................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
The paediatric nursing is defined as a part of nursing profession with significantly focus
around the care of children and babies which is extended to the adolescence. Moreover, they are
registered nurses who specialise in order to provide care for patient from the birth to the
adolescence in this day may have a helpful approach to develop deep knowledge of child growth
and development as diseases which is over the condition of children often present in the different
than the adults (Hopia and et. al., 2019). In this, the discussion is based on the above scenario
which indicate that the jaundice is the leading causes of death among the infants. Moreover,
hyperbilirubinemia or the jaundice is a life-threatening disorder for the new-born babies. In this,
it is also defined as a multifactorial disorder with several symptoms and signs. As per this, the
physiological jaundice is the most prevalent type of jaundice which have a different pathological
condition. In this report, it shows the prioritisation of relevant clinical assessment for the new-
born babies who is facing the condition of jaundice and diagnostic data which is play essential
role in the hyperbilirubinemia babies. The paediatric nursing is discussed with aetiology risk
factor for the critical jaundice treatment and effective support for jaundice children by the nurses
to their parents (Kim and et. al., 2018).
MAIN BODY
Priority related with clinical assessment and data related by hyperbilirubinemia new born babies
One of the most critical clinical condition in the jaundice is associated with the infants the
neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is a common clinical problem which can configure during the
neonatal period. Moreover, 8% to 11% of infants are facing the situation of jaundice. In this, the
total serum bilirubin increases above the 95% for age in the zone of high risk during the first
week of life. It is also taking as a consideration for the hyperbilirubinemia. Between 60% to 80%
of the healthy infants are expected to present with the idiopathic neonatal jaundice. Moreover,
the influence on infants is usually started with the discoloration of skin and the sclera color to
yellowish in the newborn by hyperbilirubinemia. Moreover, the incidence of neonatal
hyperbilirubinemia in-house live birth is approximate 3.3 % while the extramural admission
morbidity of the jaundice is accounted up to 22.1 %. This condition is common in 50 to 60% of
newborn babies in the first week of life (Lucio and et. al., 2019).