What is the term for when children alternate between two homes, spending varying amounts of time with each parent in a situation called co-parenting and usually involving joint custody?
1. Blended or reconstituted nuclear family
2. Extended kin network family
3. Binuclear family
4. Extended family
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Explanation: 3. A binuclear family is a postdivorce family in which the biologic children are members of two nuclear households, with parenting by both the father and the mother.
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A patient is in the acute phase of a burn injury. One of the nursing diagnoses in the plan of care is Ineffective Coping Related to Trauma of Burn Injury. What interventions appropriately address this diagnosis? Select all that apply
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An employee has requested special accommodations secondary to a disability. The hospital refuses, citing undue hardship. What must be present for that refusal to be upheld?
Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected. Select all that apply. 1. The accommodation would be very difficult to implement. 2. The accommodation would require physical changes to the work environment. 3. The accommodation would not be necessary if the employee changed positions. 4. The accommodation has never been made before this case. 5. The requested accommodation will require very expensive equipment and renovation.
The Brown-Séquard syndrome results in which neurologic deficit?
1. Bilateral loss of pain sensation below the level of injury 2. Bilateral loss of temperature and motor function below the level of injury 3. Motor and sensory loss in upper extremities only 4. Ipsilateral loss of motor function, contralateral loss of pain sensation and temper-ature