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An older infant who has been injured in an automobile accident is to wear a splint on the injured leg. The mother reports that the infant has become mobile even while wearing the splint. What should the nurse advise the mother to do?

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The nurse should let the parent know that the infant should simply have a safe place to move about in. The splint needs to stay on, but the child will still be able to easily adapt and find ways to move about in a necessary way. The parent just needs to make sure that the areas do not have any ways for the child to fall and re-injure the leg.
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