In planning care for clients in a newborn clinic, the nurse's priority activity during the first clinic visit will be:
1. Providing pamphlets to reinforce information provided at the visit.
2. Assessing the newborn and family interactions.
3. Modeling infant-nurturing behaviors.
4. Informing the parents of the infant gains in height and weight.
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Rationale:
1. Providing pamphlets to help educate the parents should be done at each appropriate office visit; however, the pamphlets would be distributed after assessment of parent needs.
2. The first step in the nursing process is assessment; therefore, the nurse should assess the interactions of the parents with the newborn.
3. While the nurse should be a role model for nurturing behaviors during the office visit, this would not be the first thing the nurse performs at the office visit.
4. While parents are informed of the infant's gains in height and weight, this activity does not take priority.
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