The nurse needs to assess a 15-month-old child who is sitting quietly on his father's lap.What initial action by the nurse would be most appropriate?

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For young children,particularly infants and toddlers,preserving parent-child contact is a good way of decreasing stress or the need for physical restraint during an assessment.For example,much of a patient's physical examination can be done with the patient in a parent's lap with the parent providing reassuring and comforting contact.The initial action would be to begin the assessment while the child is in his father's lap.

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