NURS 1495 Week 11 Transition to Parenting Exam
Questions And Answers
What constitutes the process of transition to parenthood?
The transition to parenthood involves role attainment and adaptation to new family
dynamics as infants grow and change, emphasizing family-centered care.
Describe the key components of parental attachment, bonding, and acquaintance.
Key components include attachment formation, bonding through physical and emotional
connections, proximity, interaction, mutuality, acquaintance with the newborn, and the
claiming process.
What behaviors are measured to provide evidence of attachment between parents and
their newborn?
Behaviors include reaching for the infant, identifying individual characteristics, physical
touch, stimulation provided, looking and talking, comfort with caregiving, and forms of
affection shown.
How does early contact between parent and infant promote attachment and
family-centered care?
Early skin-to-skin contact can enhance the attachment process, promote optimal
family-centered care, promote early breastfeeding, and enhance family involvement in
care.
What are the roles of touch, eye contact, voice, and odor in the communication between
, parents and infants?
In this area, all these senses are very critical in bonding and attachment. Entrainment,
biorhythmicity, and synchronization of parent-infant interaction are some of the
practices that enhance emotional and physical touch.
How do parental roles change after the birth of a child, and what kind of support is
necessary?
The role of the parent unfolds in stages through dependence, independence, and
interdependence, requiring assistance with new paternal roles, adapting to parental
responsibilities, and adjusting to changes in family relationships and sexual relations.
What are some issues and concerns with varied transitions to parenthood?
Varied issues include differences in age, cultural and socioeconomic concerns,
LGBTQ2 relationships, differences in social support, and expectations that call for
individualized nursing care and anticipatory guidance.
How do nurses help parents to work through the transition to become parents and care
for their infant?
eternity
Nursing care is geared toward helping the parents with infant care, role adjustment,
lifestyle modification, and modifications to family structure through education and
modeling these new dynamics.
What are the most basic physiological adaptations in a newborn?
Adaptations include the thermogenic system for the regulation of body temperature,
renal and gastrointestinal activation for the balance of fluids and digestion, and hepatic
adjustments for bilirubin metabolism.
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