The nurse delays assessing the temperature in an infant because of the false elevation of temperature caused by the child:
a. having a bowel movement.
b. crying vigorously.
c. having just eaten.
d. having been in a cold room.
B
Crying increases the temperature; eating and bowel movements do not. A cold room would lower the temperature.
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