Answer:
First let's add the missing piece of information for clarity and then the options before we write the answer
The response that the nursing student should make is based on understanding the mechanism of heat loss in the newborn. This nursing intervention is designed to protect the newborn against which heat loss mechanism?
The options:
1. Radiation
2. Convection
3. Conduction
4. Evaporation
The CORRECT ANSWER IS 3.
3. Conduction
Explanation:
Thermoregulation in humans is a major area of homeostasis. In thermoregulation, body heat is produced mainly in the vital organs, such as the liver, brain, and heart, and in skeletal muscles contracting activities.
There are basically four modes of heat loss: convection, conduction, radiation, and evaporation.
Heat loss by radiation and conduction occurs when the skin temperature is higher in comparison to the surroundings temperature.
Heat loss by evaporation occurs when the surroundings temperature is higher in comparison to the skin temperature as in sport activity.
Back to our case study:
1. Radiation❌
Radiation is seen when the body or skin lossses heat to a cooler body without any direct contact being made.
2. Convection❌
Convention is seen when the body or skin losses heat to cooler ambient air.
3. Conduction✔✔✔
Conduction is seen when the body or skin comes in direct contact with a cooler surface resulting in a loss of body heat.
4. Evaporation❌
Evaporation is a phenomenal that results in heat loss in the process of converting liquid to a gas.
