For care-planning purposes, the nurse must consider that a client who has abused alcohol and other illicit substance throughout her pregnancy is at high risk for:
1. A difficult labor and delivery
2. Having a normal, but underweight, infant
3. Delivering a baby with facial abnormalities and mental retardation
4. Having a child who will have hyperbilirubinemia and brain damage
ANS: 3
Prenatal alcohol consumption can result in fetal alcohol syndrome, which is characterized by mental retardation, facial abnormalities, and growth retardation (option 3). The mother would not necessarily have a difficult labor (option 1) or a normal baby because of substance abuse (option 2). Hyperbilirubinemia (option 4) has not been associated with illicit substance abuse.
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