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This 10 page paper provides an overview of a study of infant pain and the first two chapters, including an introduction and review of literature, for this research study. Bibliography lists 23 sources.
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potentially painful procedures on neonates. For many infants, this meant repeated painful procedures, including heel-sticks without regard for pain management, causing the needless suffering of infants in the Neonatal
Intensive Care Unit. In recent years, evidence has supported the belief that neonates do feel pain and respond to painful stimulus. As a result, it can be argued
that assessments of pain response should be central to determining changes in hospital protocols for the use of these procedures on infant populations (Coleman and Booker-Milburn, 1996; Stevens, Hunsberger and
Browne, 1987). This study is designed to consider the use of painful procedures as a standard part of care in the neonatal intensive care unit of the hospital after
birth. This study challenges McGraws assertion that infants do not feel pain, and integrates a collection of studies about responsivity to painful stimuli through assessments of physical elements, including
crying, grimacing, facial expressions, increased heart rate, temperature changes, elevated blood, low hemoglobin, low sugar and ejection fraction, all reflections of changes in structural integrity. In conjunction, assessments of
behavioral responses, including mood changes, changes in socializing or bonding (changes in social integrity) are also viewed in conjunction with the pain responses. Through views of existing studies of
neonatal responsivity, this study will support the hypothesis that neonates (infants) are being subjected to painful procedures in the neonatal intensive care unit of the hospital after birth because of
the faulty belief that infants do not feel pain. Description of the Program to be Evaluated The program to be evaluated is the neonatal intensive care
unit (NICU) of a hospital, with a specific focus on the care of neonates between birth and 28 days of life. The study of the NICU treatments and the
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