NURS 6660 Week 10: Feeding, Eating, and Elimination Disorders in Childhood

NURS 6660: Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Role I: Child and Adolescent | Week 10

“I am so tired and frustrated. Jackson refuses to breastfeed, and bottle feeding is not much easier. He was the perfect baby when he was born, but now, 6 months later, he is only a few pounds heavier. He won’t take any more than 4 ounces of formula at a time and wakes up several times during the night. We started him on baby food early, but even then he only eats one or two bites before he starts kicking and crying. The pediatrician says there is nothing wrong physically as he is meeting all his milestones, but he just won’t eat.”

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Jessica, age 32, mother of Jackson, age 6 months

Children and adolescents with feeding, eating, and elimination disorders may come to the attention of providers in a variety of settings. These disorders are disturbing to parents and may have significant morbidity for youth. It is not uncommon to hear of youth with eating disorders including anorexia and bulimia. It is less common to hear of pica and rumination disorder. Elimination disorders of enuresis and encopresis are troubling to children and parents and cause significant difficulty in daily functioning.

This week, you work with your group again to develop a Parent Guide for a feeding, eating, or elimination disorder. You also submit your cover letter, resume, and portfolio.

Discussion: Parent Guide – NURS 6660 Week 10: Feeding, Eating, and Elimination Disorders in Childhood

Feeding, eating, and elimination disorders can be difficult to detect and treat. Parents need education and information to determine if their infant, child, or adolescent may have these types of disorders. A Parent Guide can be a useful tool to help both the clinician and the parent in understanding the child or adolescent and providing behavioral strategies for helping families work with these disorders. For this Discussion, you will be assigned a feeding, eating, or elimination disorder.

In this Discussion, you work with your group again to develop a Parent Guide for your assigned feeding, eating, or elimination disorder.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

• Analyze signs and symptoms of feeding, eating, and elimination disorders
• Analyze pathophysiology of feeding, eating, and elimination disorders
• Analyze diagnosis and treatment methods for feeding, eating, and elimination disorders
• Create professional cover letters, resumes, and portfolios

To Prepare for this Assignment:

• Your Instructor will assign you to a group and a disorder by Day 1 of Week 2.
• Review the resources concerning your assigned disorder.
• Use your group’s Discussion Board to design and develop the Parent Guide before posting to the group wiki. For further guidance, refer to the Accessing Group Discussions instructions below.

Using evidence-based research, design and develop a Parent Guide for your assigned disorder including:

• Signs and symptoms
• Pathophysiology
• How the disorder is diagnosed
• Treatment options

Provide a minimum of three academic references.

By Day 5

One designated group member should post the completed Parent Guide to the Discussion.

By Day 7

Respond to at least two other groups’ wikis by providing at least two contributions for improving or including in their Parent Guide and at least two things that you like about their guide.