The community health nurse working with teenage mothers and their children and recognizes that these clients have increased vulnerability and should be assessed for:

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