As related to the eventual discharge of the high risk newborn or ...

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As related to the eventual discharge of the high risk newborn or transfer to a different facility, nurses and families should be aware that:
 
  a. Infants will stay in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) until they are ready to go home.
  b. Once discharged to home, the high risk infant should be treated like any healthy term newborn.
  c. Parents of high risk infants need special support and detailed contact information.
  d. If a high risk infant and mother need transfer to a specialized regional center, it is better to wait until after birth and the infant is stabilized.

Question 2

The nurse practicing in the perinatal setting should promote kangaroo care regardless of an infant's gestational age. This intervention:
 
  a. Is adopted from classical British nursing traditions.
  b. Helps infants with motor and central nervous system impairment.
  c. Helps infants to interact directly with their parents and enhances their temperature regulation.
  d. Gets infants ready for breastfeeding.

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Answer to Question 1

ANS: C
High risk infants can cause profound parental stress and emotional turmoil. Parents need support, special teaching, and quick access to various resources available to help them care for their baby. Parents and their high risk infant should spend a night or two in a predischarge room, where care for the infant is provided away from the NICU. Just because high risk infants are discharged does not mean that they are normal, healthy babies. Follow-up by specialized practitioners is essential. Ideally, the mother and baby are transported with the fetus in utero; this reduces neonatal morbidity and mortality.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C
Kangaroo care is skin-to-skin holding in which the infant, dressed only in a diaper, is placed directly on the parent's bare chest and then covered. The procedure helps infants interact with their parents and regulates their temperature, among other developmental benefits.