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Nurse's Pocket Guide

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Defining Characteristics<br />

OBJECTIVE<br />

Regulatory Problems<br />

Inability to inhibit startle; irritability<br />

State-Organization System<br />

Active-awake (fussy, worried gaze); quiet-awake (staring, gaze<br />

aversion)<br />

Diffuse sleep, state-oscillation<br />

Irritable crying<br />

Attention-Interaction System<br />

Abnormal response to sensory stimuli (e.g., difficult to soothe,<br />

inability to sustain alert status)<br />

Motor System<br />

Finger splaying, fisting; hands to face; hyperextension of<br />

extremities<br />

Tremors, startles, twitches; jittery; uncoordinated movement<br />

Changes to motor tone; altered primitive reflexes<br />

Physiological<br />

Bradycardia, tachycardia, arrhythmias<br />

Skin color changes; desaturation<br />

“Time-out signals” (e.g., gaze, grasp, hiccough, cough, sneeze,<br />

sigh, slack jaw, open mouth, tongue thrust)<br />

Feeding intolerances<br />

Desired Outcomes/Evaluation<br />

Criteria—Infant Will:<br />

• Exhibit organized behaviors that allow the achievement of<br />

optimal potential for growth and development as evidenced<br />

by modulation of physiological, motor, state, and attentionalinteractive<br />

functioning.<br />

Parent/Caregiver Will:<br />

• Recognize individual infant cues.<br />

• Identify appropriate responses (including environmental<br />

modifications) to infant’s cues.<br />

• Verbalize readiness to assume caregiving independently.<br />

Actions/Interventions<br />

NURSING PRIORITY NO.1.To assess causative/contributing factors:<br />

• Determine infant’s chronological and developmental age;<br />

note length of gestation.<br />

Information in brackets added by the authors to clarify and enhance<br />

the use of nursing diagnoses.<br />

Diagnostic Studies Pediatric/Geriatric/Lifespan Medications 397<br />

disorganized INFANT BEHAVIOR

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