The nurse is cross-training maternal-child health unit nurses to provide home-based care for parents ...

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Rationale 1: The behavioral exam is not accurate until about the third day of life. Newborns have disorganized behavior in the first days after birth.
Rationale 2: Parental input is required to fully understand the infant's behaviors that are not observed by the healthcare team.
Rationale 3: A full behavioral assessment requires seeing the infant in several sleep/alert stages, which is not likely to take place in a 1-hour home visit.
Rationale 4: Orientation to visual and auditory clues and motor activity are portions of the behavioral assessment.
Rationale 5: The behavioral assessment can detect neurological anomalies.