Infant care plan help?

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Specializes in Pediatrics.

I am working on a care plan for a healthy newborn and am having trouble coming up with diagnoses. I have risk for infection b/c of a circumcision dressing, risk for altered family processes b/c he is the first baby, his mom had a C-section and is returning to work soon. I need two more, any suggestions? I was thinking about Potential for Enhanced Organized Infant Behavior but cannot find any info about this one. Thanks for any help!

Hope these help.

Risk for infection r/t open umbilical stump

Risk for injury r/t immaturity, need for caretaking

Ineffective thermoregulation r/t immaturity of neuroendocrine system

For the circumcision:

Ineffective health maintenance r/t deficient knowledge (parental) regarding care of surgical area

pain r/t surgical intervention

Risk for infection r/t surgical wound

How about knowledge deficit for Mom - first baby?

Specializes in Pediatrics.

Thanks for your help guys! Those sound good! I will try some of them, except my professor said she does not want us to use knowledge deficit for some reason. Thanks!

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