Which should the nurse keep in mind when providing care to an adolescent client during the initial visit?
1. The importance of explaining procedures and introducing personnel to adolescents.
2. Adolescents usually are quiet and will offer no opinions.
3. The importance of attending to and discharging the adolescent quickly.
4. Adolescents are comfortable with their surroundings.
Question 2
The nurse is assessing an adolescent client to determine relationships with others. Which nursing action is appropriate?
1. Telling the parents that information from the assessment will be shared with them after the examination
2. Providing separate time to communicate with both the adolescent and the parents
3. Avoiding asking the parents their opinions of the adolescent's friends
4. Telling the parents they are not allowed to come into the examination room