The nurse admits a newborn diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome. When talking with the mother, the nurse discusses:
1. Getting help from Alcoholics Anonymous for her alcohol dependency.
2. The need for special strategies when feeding the infant.
3. The need to consult Social Services.
4. The need to contact Children and Youth Services.
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Rationale: When an infant is born with fetal alcohol syndrome, it does not indicate the mother is an alcoholic or abuses alcohol, because safe levels of alcohol ingestion have not been determined. Children born with this disorder will require special attention to meet nutritional needs, because they are often fussy and poor feeders.
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" What response is best? 1. "We'll take good care of you and your baby. You'll be home before you know it." 2. "You'll be wearing long stockings to prevent blood clots from forming in your legs." 3. "You will have a lot of pain, but there are medications that we give when it gets bad." 4. "You won't be able to nurse until the baby is 12 hours old, because of your epidural."
A nurse who failed to irrigate a feeding tube as ordered resulting in harm to the patient could be found guilty of:
a. malpractice. b. harm to the patient. c. negligence. d. failure to follow the Nurse Practice Act.
A nurse practitioner is working in a crowded neighborhood where the population is primarily immigrants from China. The nurse has designed a research study to follow children from kindergarten to the age of 25
She is going to be looking at their diet, successful progression in school, health practices, and development of disease, to name a few items. This type of research is known as A) cohort study. B) cross-sectional study. C) case-control study. D) epidemiological study.
The nursing school's curriculum is based on Orem's self-care deficit theory of nursing. How would this curriculum describe nursing interventions designed for individuals who are unable to perform some (but not all) self-care activities?
1. Wholly compensatory 2. Partly compensatory 3. Supportive 4. Educative