The nurse practicing in the perinatal setting should promote kangaroo care regardless of an infant's gestational age. This intervention:
a. Is adopted from classical British nursing traditions.
b. Helps infants with motor and central nervous system impairment.
c. Helps infants to interact directly with their parents and enhances their temperature regulation.
d. Gets infants ready for breastfeeding.
ANS: C
Kangaroo care is skin-to-skin holding in which the infant, dressed only in a diaper, is placed directly on the parent's bare chest and then covered. The procedure helps infants interact with their parents and regulates their temperature, among other developmental benefits.
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