The nurse has just obtained a newborn for admission and assessment in the newborn nursery. Which of the following nursing actions is done as a result of potential contamination of the neonate when descending down the birth canal?
A) Assessing the mouth for thrush
B) Instilling erythromycin ointment in the eyes
C) Providing an injection of vitamin K
D) Completing hearing screening
B
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The nurse instills erythromycin ointment into the newborn's eyes immediately after birth. The ointment is an antibiotic given prophylactically to prevent the occurrence of blindness in newborns born to a mother with a sexually transmitted infection such as gonorrhea, ophthalmia neonatorum due to Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and chlamydia trachomatis from the Chlamydia bacteria.
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