It is more common for children with genetic disorders to live longer. What impact does this have on health care delivery for the nurse providing care for these children?
1. Nurses must be familiar with increasing numbers of genetic disorders and the care these children require.
2. Nurses should not spend much time at the bedside, as these children with eventually die of these disorders.
3. Health care delivery is becoming more complex, despite these children requiring less care as they age.
4. Health care delivery will become more and more expensive until children with genetic disorders will have to do without.
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Rationale:
1. As advances in genetics continue, nurses will need to become familiar with more disorders in order to provide appropriate care for these children.
2. Regardless of the time these children will survive, nurses must still spend time at the bedside in order to provide appropriate nursing care.
3. Children with genetic disorders typically require more care that is more complex.
4. Children with genetic disorders will obtain the care needed regardless of the expense.
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