The first-time mom requests information from the nurse about providing foods other than breast milk to her 3-month-old child. Which response by the nurse is most appropriate?

The nurse is assigned to care for a large for gestational age neonate with respiratory distress and significant tachypnea that is requiring continuous positive airway pressure at 12 hours of life. The nurse notes the patient has good muscle tone with flexed bilateral legs and a flexed right arm. The left arm is extended and adducted. The nurse is MOST concerned about which condition?

The mother of a 6-month-old boy tells the nurse that her mother (the boy’s grandmother) keeps admonishing her to, “let the baby cry it out,” instead of calming the crying infant. The nurse advises the mother based on an understanding of which of Erikson’s developmental stages?