A nurse is planning care for a newborn with a congenital heart ...

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A nurse is planning care for a newborn with a congenital heart defect. Which interventions would the nurse include? (Select all that apply.)
 
  a. Administering oxygen as ordered
  b. Administering medications as prescribed
  c. Maintaining a thermoneutral environment
  d. Continuous monitoring of the infant's cardiac and respiratory status
  e. Gavage feeding if necessary to decrease the workload of the heart
  f. Offering comfort measures to minimize crying when it precipitates cyanosis

Question 2

When planning care for adolescents, the nurse should
 
  a. Teach parents first, and they, in turn, will teach the teenager.
  b. Provide information for their long-term health needs because teenagers respond
  best to long-range planning.
  c. Maintain the parents' role by providing explanations for treatment and procedures
  to the parents only.
  d. Give information privately to adolescents about how they can manage the specific
  problems that they identify.

[Swizqar]

Answer to Question 1

A, B, C, D, E, F
Nursing interventions include continuous monitoring of the infant's cardiac and respiratory status, maintaining a thermoneutral environment, administering oxygen as ordered, administering medications as prescribed, offering comfort measures to minimize crying when it precipitates cyanosis, and gavage feeding if necessary to decrease the workload of the heart. In addition, the nurse should keep the parents informed of the newborn's condition and medical management, and provide opportunities for bonding and early attachments.

Answer to Question 2

D
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A Teenagers are socially and cognitively at the developmental stage where the
health care provider can teach them.
B Teenagers are more interested in immediate health care needs than in long-term
needs.
C Teenagers are at the developmental level that allows them to receive
explanations about health care directly from the nurse.
D Problems that teenagers identify and are interested in are typically the problems
that they are the most willing to address. Confidentiality is important to
adolescents. Adolescents prefer to confer privately (without parents) with the
nurse and health care provider.

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[alexanderhamilton]

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