Newborn Careplan

Nursing Students Student Assist

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I thought I was getting the hang of care plans, but this semester I have started to struggle again. I did a care plan for mother and baby and was told to look for another NANDA-Dx for the baby. I had done "Imbalanced nutrition: less than body requirements" The baby was less than 12 hours old, and I understand that it's not typical for an infant to breastfeed at this time, but I thought it would be the best fit.

The baby had a LATCH score 4/10

the mother attempted to breast feed 3 times and the 3 times were unsuccessful and the infant kept falling asleep.

Overall everything appeared to be WNL.

I thought of switching my dx to ineffective breastfeeding aeb LATCH score 4/10

any suggestions?

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Moved to the Nursing Student Assistance forum

Between this and the General Student Discussion forum you should be able to find plenty of advice on care plans

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, educator.

I wouldn't do the first one, I'd go with the second one. Newborns don't need a lot the first few days.

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