An infant is admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of failure to thrive. The nurse will likely make which of the following observations about the infant and family?
a. The infant has lost weight as a result of diarrhea
b. The infant was found to be below the 5th percentile in growth
c. The baby responds positively to cuddling
d. A positive mother-child relationship is noted
B
Failure to thrive is generally not caused by an organic condition. The infant will usually be below the 5th percentile in growth. The baby often does not respond in a positive way to cuddling. The baby may be wary of the mother or caregiver.
You might also like to view...
A nurse tells a patient a list of five objects to remember and, after five minutes, asks the patient to repeat the list. What is the nurse evaluating?
1. IQ 2. Thought content 3. Short-term memory 4. Long-term memory
When a nurse reconstitutes a powder, what information must be included on the label? Select all that apply
A) Date B) Nurse's initials C) Patient's name D) Solution the nurse made E) Time
The daughter of a client with terminal brain cancer wants a feeding tube placed so that the client will have nutrition to be cured of the disease. Which response should the nurse make to this daughter?
a. "What does your father want?" b. "If your father is hungry he will find a way to eat without a stomach tube." c. "Intravenous fluid contains enough nutrients to meet his nutritional needs." d. "Palliative nutrition is focused on relieving discomfort and symptoms rather than cure."
A nurse is preparing to discuss the importance of neuroendrocrine regulation with a group of nurses who work in the endocrine clinic
The nurse plans to stress that this collaborative effort facilitates the regulation of physiological function that includes a person's ability to: Select all that apply. 1. Grow physically. 2. Reproduce. 3. Adapt to external changes. 4. Critically think. 5. Reason.