The nurse is assigned to a child in a spica cast for a fractured femur suffered in an automobile accident. The child's teenage brother was driving the car,which was totaled.
The nurse learns that the father lost his job three weeks ago and the mother has just accepted a temporary waitress job. An appropriate diagnosis for this family is
1. Compromised Family Coping relatedto the effects of multiple simultaneous stressors.
2. Impaired Social Interaction (parentand child) related to the lack of family or respite support.
3. Interrupted Family Processes relatedto child with significant disability requiring alteration in family functioning.
4. Risk for Caregiver Role Strain relatedto child with a newly acquired disability and the associated financial burden.
Question 2
A nurse is working with the family of a pediatric client. The nurse is planning to obtain an accurate amily assessment. The initial step would be to
1. establish a trusting relationship with the family.
2. select the most relevant familyassessment tool.
3. focus primarily upon the mother,while learning her greatest concern.
4. observe the family in the homesetting,since this step always proves indispensable.
Child development varies and is hard to predict
To check pupillary reflexes the nurse first holds the penlight
Nurse using a stethoscope
Child Development: A Cultural Approach
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