What is the primary nursing concern for a hospitalized child with HIV infection?
a. Maintaining growth and development
b. Eating foods that the family brings to the child
c. Consideration of parental limitations and weaknesses
d. Resting for 2 to 3 hours twice a day
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A Maintaining growth and development is a major concern for the child with HIV
infection. Frequent monitoring for failure to thrive, neurologic deterioration, or
developmental delay is important for HIV-infected infants and children.
B Nutrition, which contributes to a child's growth, is a nursing concern; however,
it is not necessary for family members to bring food to the child.
C Although an assessment of parental strengths and weaknesses is important, it
will be imperative for health care providers to focus on the parental strengths,
not weaknesses. This is not as important as the frequent assessment of the child's
growth and development.
D Rest is a nursing concern, but it is not as high a priority as maintaining growth
and development. Rest periods twice a day for 2 to 3 hours may not be
appropriate.
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