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bucstennis@aim.com · **on:** Jun 27, 2018

You are the nurse working with parents and their newborns on a postpartum unit there the newborns room with the mother. The parents of one of the babies learns that their newborn has mental retardation.

You notice these parents going through the stage of denial and then demonstrating anxiety. You realize that this anxiety: a. must be reduced as soon as possible and you need to calm the family immediately
b. serves a purpose in alerting the family that something is amiss and in generating needed energy to deal with the situation
c. will keep the family from completing the stages of adjusting to the child having mental retardation
d. is related to the loss of their dream of a perfect child and how other people will be disappointed in them

Question 2

Adolescents most need people to:

a. talk with them and explain the world to them
b. honestly tell them then their ideas are wrong
c. agree with them and give positive reinforcement then they are right
d. listen to them verbalize what the world should be like

Ptupou85 · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 27, 2018

Answer to Question 1

B

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A Incorrect. Anxiety should not be reduced as soon as possible because it serves a useful purpose.
B Correct. Anxiety serves a purpose in alerting one's family and friends that something is amiss and in generating needed energy to deal with the situation.
C Incorrect. This is an incorrect statement. The normal grieving process runs its course, and new dreams are generated in the process. Some parents may become immobilized in one stage and may need counseling to work through this and subsequent stages.
D Incorrect. The entire grieving process (denial, anxiety, fear depression, guilt, and anger) is related to the loss of their dream of a perfect child and possibly to how other people will be disappointed in them, not just the stage of anxiety.

Answer to Question 2

D

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A Incorrect. Adolescents do not most need people to talk with them and explain the world to them.
B Incorrect. Adolescents do not most need people to honestly tell them then their ideas are wrong.
C Incorrect. Adolescents do not most need people to agree with them and give positive reinforcement then they are right.
D Correct. Adolescents most need people to allow them to verbalize what the world should be like in order to analyze their own ideas and come to their position short of the ideal.