The nurse teaching a group of students about trends that have ...

[LaDunn]

The nurse teaching a group of students about trends that have affected the contemporary family includes: Note: Credit will be given only if all correct and no incorrect choices are selected. Select all that apply.
 
  1. An increase in the median age at the time of marriage.
  2. A higher percentage of marriages ending in divorce.
  3. A decline in childless families.
  4. Traditional nuclear families remaining the norm.
  5. An increased acceptance of single women having children.

Question 2

The nurse is telling a new client how advanced technology has permitted the physician to do which of the following?
 
  1. Treat the fetus and monitor fetal development.
  2. Deliver at home with a nurse-midwife and doula.
  3. Have the father present as the coach and cut the umbilical cord.
  4. Breastfeed a new baby on the delivery table.

[rnehls]

Answer to Question 1

1,2,5
Rationale 1: Men are now a median age of 27.7 years and women are a median age of 26 when they first marry. These are increases over 1990 statistics.
Rationale 2: There is a higher number of marriages that end in divorce, and this trend influences the makeup and function of the contemporary family.
Rationale 3: The number of childless and child-free families has increased.
Rationale 4: The traditional nuclear family is no longer the norm in the United States.
Rationale 5: The traditional nuclear family is no longer the norm in the United States.

Answer to Question 2

1
Explanation: 1. The fetus is increasingly viewed as a patient separate from the mother, although treatment of the fetus necessarily involves the mother.

[LaDunn]

Excellent

[strudel15]

TYSM