Question Answered step-by-step A nurse who works in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit has been… A nurse who works in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit has been assigned to develop ateaching plan for the parents of premature babies who are nearly ready for discharge.The parents are predominantly white and Hispanic, with ages ranging from 15 to 47. The infants may have any number of physical needs upon discharge including specialfeeding instructions, apnea monitors, temperature instability, colostomy care, andoxygen supplementation, among others. The parents will be anxious, tired, disoriented,and possibly in pain (post-caesarean section mothers). The NICU can be an intimidatingand distracting place for learning, with monitor noise, dim or bright lighting, multiple staffperforming multiple procedures, and the potential for life-threatening crises with theirchild or another nearby.Before writing learning objectives, the nurse establishes three priority educational needs(diagnoses): (a) risk for abnormal body temperature fluctuations, (b) risk for ineffective breathing patterns, and (c) altered nutrition: less than body requirements. She has difficulty formulating learning objectives at this point.A) What is the problem with the focus of this needs list? Rewrite the needs list to betterreflect the purpose of the teaching plan.After reframing her prioritized educational needs (diagnoses), the nurse writes thefollowing learning objective,”Parents will verbalize correct feeding procedures for breast and bottle feedings anddemonstrate competency in feeding infant in one or both ways that are chosen to feedinfant.”B) What are the strong and weak points of this learning objective? Rewrite the learningobjective addressing the weak areas. Health Science Science Nursing NURSING BS 8002712 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)