Posted: January 24th, 2018

A maternity nurse is providing instruction to a new mother regarding the psychosocial development of the newborn infant. Using Erikson’s psychosocial development theory, what are the 5 best instructions

A maternity nurse is providing instruction to a new mother regarding the psychosocial development of the newborn infant.

Using Erikson’s psychosocial development theory, the nurse would instruct the mother to

1. Allow the newborn infant to signal a need
2. Anticipate all of the needs of the newborn infant
3. Avoid the newborn infant during the first 10 minutes of crying
4. Attend to the newborn infant immediately when crying