A nurse reads in a female patient's chart that she is Tanner stage V. What can the nurse conclude about this patient?
A.
Beginning puberty
B.
Midpoint of puberty
C.
Sexually immature
D.
Sexually mature
ANS: D
Guidelines of secondary sexual characteristic development, termed Tanner stages, measure the predictable stages of pubertal body changes in both genders. A female in stage V (the last stage) would be sexually mature.
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