When planning care for adolescents, the nurse should
a. Teach parents first, and they, in turn, will teach the teenager.
b. Provide information for their long-term health needs because teenagers respond
best to long-range planning.
c. Maintain the parents' role by providing explanations for treatment and procedures
to the parents only.
d. Give information privately to adolescents about how they can manage the specific
problems that they identify.
D
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A Teenagers are socially and cognitively at the developmental stage where the
health care provider can teach them.
B Teenagers are more interested in immediate health care needs than in long-term
needs.
C Teenagers are at the developmental level that allows them to receive
explanations about health care directly from the nurse.
D Problems that teenagers identify and are interested in are typically the problems
that they are the most willing to address. Confidentiality is important to
adolescents. Adolescents prefer to confer privately (without parents) with the
nurse and health care provider.
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