When a client tells the nurse that she is divorced and remarried with one son from her first marriage, the nurse documents the client's family structure as:
A) extended
B) blended
C) cohabitating
D) divided
Ans: B
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Members of a blended family include children who live with one birth parent and one non-birth parent as well as any offspring of the non-birth parent.
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