The community health nurse is caring for teenage mothers and their children. For what should the nurse assess these patients when determining their degree of vulnerability?

Question

1. Distance separation from their nuclear families
2. Increased levels of poverty
3. Raising children without the support of family
4. The normal difficulties of adolescence

Answer 1

Correct Answer: 4
Rationale 1: Teenage mothers have the normal needs of teenagers as well as those of new mothers, with motherhood compounding the difficulties of adolescence. Although many teenage mothers are raising children alone, without the support of the baby's father or perhaps their own families, and many live in poverty, all are vulnerable because of their age.