Practice Question
The nurse is caring for a postpartum client whose partner expresses anxiety about caring for their newborn. Which nursing intervention is most appropriate to ease the partner's concerns?
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Correct Answer:
Teach the partner infant care tasks. such as feeding, diapering. and swaddling.
Rationale:
🔷 Teaching newborn-care skills builds the partner’s confidence through hands-on learning.
🔷 It helps the partner feel capable and actively involved in caring for the infant.
🔷 Skill teaching reduces anxiety by replacing fear with competence.
🔷 This approach promotes healthy family bonding and shared parenting roles.
🔷 education is an evidence-based intervention to reduce
“Suggest relying on the client’s experience…”
🔷 Promotes dependence and does not reduce anxiety.
🔷 Fails to address the partner’s need for skill development.
“Reassure that instincts will develop naturally…”
🔷 Minimizes valid concerns and does not teach needed skills.
🔷 Instincts do not replace evidence-based newborn-care knowledge.
“Recommend avoiding discussing concerns…”
🔷 Suppresses communication and increases internal stress.
🔷 Prevents the partner from receiving needed emotional support.
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This question is from Exam 3 - Modules 5 and 6 Nov which contains 74 questions.
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Question Details
- Category: RN Nursing Exam(s)
- Subcategory: General Exams
- Domain: 🤱🏼Maternity & Newborn Care
- Answer Choices: 4