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Contexts and situations ( 4 Questions)
A nurse is caring for a mother who has given birth to a premature infant with a low birth weight.
What is the most appropriate intervention to promote maternal role attainment in this situation?
Visiting the neonatal intensive care unit as often as possible is not enough to promote maternal role attainment.The mother needs to have active participation and interaction with her infant, not just passive observation.
Explaining the medical procedures and equipment used for the infant’s care is not sufficient to promote maternal role attainment.The mother needs to have emotional and physical contact with her infant, not just cognitive understanding of the infant’s condition.
Providing positive feedback and reassurance to the mother about her abilities is not adequate to promote maternal role attainment.The mother needs to have practical experience and competence in taking care of her infant, not just verbal encouragement.
Involve the mother in the infant’s care as much as possible.This is because maternal role attainment is adevelopmental, interactive, adaptive, and committed multi-dimensional processthat leads to maternal identity, formation of maternal skills, resiliency, development of newborn, improvement of mother-newborn interactions and increased well-being of the mother.By involving the mother in the infant’s care, the nurse can facilitate this process and help the mother accept and play the motherhood role more quickly and confidently.
The correct answer is choice D. Involve the mother in the infant’s care as much as possible. This is because maternal role attainment is a developmental, interactive, adaptive, and committed multi-dimensional process that leads to maternal identity, formation of maternal skills, resiliency, development of newborn, improvement of mother-newborn interactions and increased well-being of the mother. By involving the mother in the infant’s care, the nurse can facilitate this process and help the mother accept and play the motherhood role more quickly and confidently.
Choice A is wrong because visiting the neonatal intensive care unit as often as possible is not enough to promote maternal role attainment. The mother needs to have active participation and interaction with her infant, not just passive observation.
Choice B is wrong because explaining the medical procedures and equipment used for the infant’s care is not sufficient to promote maternal role attainment. The mother needs to have emotional and physical contact with her infant, not just cognitive understanding of the infant’s condition.
Choice C is wrong because providing positive feedback and reassurance to the mother about her abilities is not adequate to promote maternal role attainment. The mother needs to have practical experience and competence in taking care of her infant, not just verbal encouragement.