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2125004343 · **on:** Jun 27, 2018

The nurse is preparing to give a medication to an adolescent client. The nurse prepares to check the wristband, but it is missing. The nurse needs to:

a. ask the adolescent to self-identify
b. have a nearby peer identify the client
c. compare the adolescent to a picture ID
d. wait for the parents to identify the adolescent

Question 2

Placing no limits on the ages or numbers of visitors and providing sleeping facilities for the caregivers in a child's room in a health care facility will most likely bring which of the following results?

a. The child will be more dependent on the family.
b. There will be loss of rest by the child.
c. Family-centered care will be enhanced.
d. Nurses will find procedures less difficult to carry out.

bob · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 27, 2018

Answer to Question 1

C

Feedback
A Incorrect. In preparing to give a medication to an adolescent client, finding the wristband missing, the nurse will not ask the adolescent to self-identify as adolescents may consider it fun to misidentify themselves.
B Incorrect. In preparing to give a medication to an adolescent client, finding the wristband missing, the nurse will not rely upon a peer to identify the client.
C Correct. In preparing to give a medication to an adolescent client, finding the wristband missing, the nurse needs to compare the adolescent to a picture ID.
D Incorrect. In preparing to give a medication to an adolescent client, finding the wristband missing, the nurse will not wait for the parents to identify the adolescent.

Answer to Question 2

C

Feedback
A Incorrect. A central concept of family-centered care is to allow the family to be more in control of who can come and go, who can stay, making the child less dependent on the family, as friends and neighbors can be more involved.
B Incorrect. Loss of rest by the child is not a reason to restrict who can come and go and who can stay.
C Correct. Other strategies that enhance family-centered care include no limits on the ages or number of visitors (unless directed otherwise by the family), and adequate sleeping facilities for the caregivers in the child's room.
D Incorrect. In fact, nurses may find procedures are more difficult to carry out with family and friends in the room.