How Can Parents Ensure A Premature Baby Remains Emotionally Healthy? - Dr. Melnyk (VIDEO)
Dr. Melnyk describes how parents can ensure their premature baby has an emotionally healthy life.
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Dr. Melnyk:
Because they were born prematurely, again, a lot of times parents see those babies as fragile and as a result of that, they overprotect their children as they grow. They are afraid to discipline those children. They are afraid to limit set with those children, and as a result their children end up not developing good self-emotional regulation.
So we do see a lot of behavioral and emotional problems later on in children of per-terms, not because of the prematurity, but because of the way they have been parented as fragile little children.
About Dr. Melnyk, Ph.D., R.N.:
Dr. Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, Ph.D., R.N., is Dean and Distinguished Foundation Professor in Nursing at the Arizona State University College of Nursing & Health Innovation. She is noted for her dedication to improving the health of children and teens, educational and research innovation, interdisciplinary healthcare, and evidence-based practice to deliver quality patient outcomes.
Dr. Melnyk earned a Bachelor of Nursing Science degree from the West Virginia University School of Nursing, a Master’s of Science in nursing with a specialization in nursing care of children as a pediatric nurse practitioner from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. in clinical nursing research from the University of Rochester (New York). She also has completed her post-master’s certificate as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner.
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