The nurse is performing a family risk assessment. Which of the following factors would indicate that this family is at risk of developing health problems?
1. The family is an elderly couple who are active in their retirement community.
2. The family is a teenage mother and child. The mother is enrolled in parenting classes at the high school.
3. The family belongs to the local synagogue and has family members still living in Germany.
4. The family depends on two incomes with a limit on their health insurance spending.
Correct Answer: 3
Rationale 1: The elderly couple is active and so is not at as high of risk simply because of age.–
Rationale 2: Just because the family is led by a teenage mother, even though maturity is one of the factors the nurse will assess in this situation does not necessarily indicate that a health risk exists.
Rationale 3: Tay-Sachs is a neurodegenerative disease that occurs primarily in descendants of Eastern European Jews. Simply because of this family's race, they are at risk for developing this health problem.
Rationale 4: Although poverty is a major problem that affects the family, the fact that there is health insurance is a positive sociologic factor.
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