infant assessment considerations

classicdame, MSN, EdD · Jul 7, 2014

your text ought to give you growth and development guidelines. The rest you need to get from parents. Is the patient dressed a specific way or have jewelry or charms attached to clothing? Is the baby being breastfed? If not, do the parents supplement formula with anything else? Had a baby seize on me once because Mom was diluting formula to save money and caused serious electrolyte imbalance. Another infant was given apple juice and that caused imbalance too. Are parents together? Who cares for baby most of the time?

RunBabyRN · Jul 7, 2014

Your textbooks should be your first resource.

What have you found so far? What info DO you have on the patient?

jkirsc · Jul 8, 2014

The only information given is that the newborn, is being examined in the newborn nursery and the findings that are given are all within normal limits. I need to list 4 four developmental, socioeconomic, and cross-cultural considerations that should be considered during the gathering of subjective and objective data and the provision of health care. My textbook doesn't have much info on this topic when assessing infants. So far I have two but I am struggling to come up with two more.

***Infants have no language skills and cannot tell you how or what they are feeling which makes subjective data difficult

***It is important to know the infants cultural background when assessing the child. This may determine how the infant is assessed. An extreme example I found was the care of some Vietnamese or Thai infants. A cultural consideration of these children would be touching the child’s head. It is believed by some people of that ethnicity the head of the infant is the site of the soul and should not be touched during an assessment-