A Client Is Warm and Asks for a Fan in Her

question 21

Multiple Choice

A client is warm and asks for a fan in her room for her comfort.The nurse enters the room to assess the mother and her infant and finds the infant unwrapped in his crib with the fan blowing over him on "high." The nurse instructs the mother that the fan should not be directed toward the newborn and that the newborn should be wrapped in a blanket.The mother asks why.The nurse's best response is:

• A)"Your baby may lose heat by convection,which means that he will lose heat from his body to the cooler ambient air.You should keep him wrapped and prevent cool air from blowing on him."
• B)"Your baby may lose heat by conduction,which means that he will lose heat from his body to the cooler ambient air.You should keep him wrapped and prevent cool air from blowing on him."
• C)"Your baby may lose heat by evaporation,which means that he will lose heat from his body to the cooler ambient air.You should keep him wrapped and prevent cool air from blowing on him."
• D)"Your baby will get cold stressed easily and needs to be bundled up at all times."

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Definitions:

Triplet Repeat

A sequence of three nucleotides in DNA that is repeated multiple times in a row, which can lead to genetic disorders if the number of repeats exceeds a normal range.

Inborn Errors

Genetic disorders resulting from a defect in an enzyme, leading to metabolic problems.

Metabolism

The set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms for converting food into energy.

Aneuploidies

Chromosomal abnormalities where the number of chromosomes in a cell is not an exact multiple of the haploid set, leading to genetic disorders or variations.