Education, Mental Health Research, Nursing / 23.07.2024
Eight Mental and Physical Fitness Tips for New RNs
Becoming a registered nurse (RN) is an achievement that brings immense pride and opportunities. After successfully completing your licensing requirements, you might feel a wave of excitement mixed with apprehension. The reality of your new role can quickly set in, with its demanding shifts, emotional challenges, and high responsibilities. This sudden surge in duties can take a toll on both your mental and physical health. However, maintaining your well-being is crucial not only for your own sake but also for providing the best care to your patients.
Here are eight useful tips to help new RNs stay fit both mentally and physically.
- Don’t Skimp on Sleep
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Sensory processing disorders (SPD) present a complex challenge for many children and their families, affecting the way kids interact with their environment and respond to sensory stimuli. Applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy has emerged as a promising approach to support those with SPD. By understanding and addressing the individual needs that come with sensory integration issues, ABA therapy can enhance a child's ability to navigate the world around them with greater confidence and competency. Below, we delve into the ways that ABA therapy can be tailored for children with sensory processing challenges.
ABA therapy is a research-based intervention widely recognized for its effectiveness in helping children with autism and related disorders. It involves structured techniques to improve social interactions, communication, and learning through positive reinforcement. The therapy targets the development of specific skills, behaviors, and responses to various stimuli.
At the heart of ABA therapy lies the consistent measurement and analysis of behavior and the adaptation of strategies to encourage desired behaviors. In practice, this might include breaking down tasks into small, manageable steps and rewarding accomplishments, hence reinforcing the desired behavior.
For those interested in pursuing a deeper understanding or career in this field, a 
According to the Daily Nurse, nursing is 
Lotfi Khemiri
Centre for Psychiatry Research
Stockholm, Sweden
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: Our study used large-scale national register data in close to 2 million children, and found that parental abuse of both alcohol and drugs are associated with increased risk of intellectual disability in the offspring. Importantly, the risk increase was observed in both mothers and fathers which to the best of our knowledge is a novel finding, and may be explained by both genetic and environmental factors including toxic effects of substance intake on fetal development.
Understanding oneself is vital before exploring medical fields. What are your unique interests? Which medical areas spark your enthusiasm? It's common to advise students to reflect on their likes and dislikes in various subjects. To save some time, you might hire an 
Larissa K. Samuelson, PhD
Professor
Developmental Dynamics Lab
School of Psychology; UK 14th for Research Quality
Psychology, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience
University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: Words direct the attention of infants, children and adults to mentioned objects in the environment. When someone says “Can you find the candy,” you look to the candy sitting on the counter. This fact is the basis of many tests of infant cognition in laboratories. To find out if a child knows the word “bike” we put a picture of a bike and a truck on a TV screen, say the word “bike” and see if they look at the correct object.
There is also evidence that words can direct attention even if you don’t know what they mean yet. For example, in studies of learning in the lab novel made up words like “modi” can direct children’s attention to specific features of objects. One particular example of this is the “shape bias”. If a two-year-old is shown a novel object and told a novel name, for example “This is my blicket,” and then asked, “Can you get your blicket” and shown one object that matches the named one in shape and another that is made from the same material, they will attend to the one that matches in shape. Researchers think the naming event “This is my…” cues children to look at things that are the same shape because they already know many names for things in sets that are similar in shape; cups are all cup-shaped, keys are all key-shaped, spoons are all spoon-shaped, etc.
Prior research suggests there may be differences in the way children who struggle with language decide what a new word means. For example, children with Developmental Language Disorder do not pay attention to the same things when learning new words as children with typical language development. These children do not look to an object that matches a named exemplar in shape when asked to “get your blicket”. But you can’t diagnose children with DLD until they are 3 or 4. We want to see if we can identify these children earlier, so they can get early support.
Arman A. Shahriar
Medical Student, University of Minnesota Medical School Research
Consultant, HealthPartners Institute
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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By providing each student with a Butterfly iQ device, we can augment our curriculum significantly. In addition to our robust pre-clinical sessions, now we will expand into the clinical years highlighting the utility of POCUS with actual patients.
This gift was made possible by the incredible generosity of Dr. Ronald Salvitti, MD ’63.