The nurse teaches children with genetic disorders ways to maintain health and avoid complications. The nurse will teach children with which genetic disorder to follow medical guidelines and maintain penicillin prophylaxis?
1. Sickle-cell disease
2. Hereditary idiopathic scoliosis
3. Klinefelter's syndrome
4. Recklinghausen's disease
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Rationale 1: The client with sickle-cell disease needs penicillin prophylaxis to avoid complications of infection.
Rationale 2: The client with idiopathic scoliosis is experiencing an orthopedic deviation and does not need prophylactic penicillin.
Rationale 3: The client with Klinefelter's syndrome has a chromosomal alteration that does not require prophylactic penicillin.
Rationale 4: The client with Recklinghausen's disease has a genetic disorder affecting neural tissues that does not have complications that can be prevented by penicillin prophylaxis.
Global Rationale:
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