A 15-year-old client has delivered a 22-week stillborn fetus. ...

[lilldybug07]

A 15-year-old client has delivered a 22-week stillborn fetus. What does the nurse understand?
 
  1. Grieving a fetal loss manifests with very similar behaviors regardless of the age of the client.
  2. Teens tend to withhold emotions and need older adults with the same type of loss to help process the experience.
  3. Most teens have had a great deal of contact with death and loss and have an established method of coping.
  4. Assisting the client might be difficult because of her mistrust of authority figures.

Question 2

At a second-trimester prenatal visit, a married couple is discussing their new roles as parents with the nurse. The father comments that he really wants to be a good father to their new baby.
 
  The nurse should explain that, in developing the fatherhood role, the most important thing is to: A. Participate actively in as many aspects of childbearing and childrearing as possible.
   B. Identify a father he admires and try to develop a fathering role similar to that.
   C. Decide with his partner on a fathering role that is mutually agreeable to both of them.
   D. Begin by examining the basic pattern of fathering that his father used with him.

[mariahkathleeen]

Answer to Question 1

4
Explanation: 4. Adolescents rely heavily on peer support and have a natural mistrust of authority figures, which can make assisting them more difficult.

Answer to Question 2

C