In administering vitamin K to the infant shortly after birth, the nurse understands that vitamin K is:
a. Important in the production of red blood cells.
b. Necessary in the production of platelets.
c. Not initially synthesized due to a sterile bowel at birth.
d. Responsible for the breakdown of bilirubin and the prevention of jaundice.
C
The bowel is initially sterile in the newborn, and vitamin K cannot be synthesized until food is introduced into the bowel.
Vitamin K is important for blood clotting.
The platelet count in term newborns is near adult levels. Vitamin K is necessary to activate prothrombin and other clotting factors.
Vitamin K is necessary to activate the clotting factors.
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