Utilizing Bronfenbrenner's ecologic theory of development, the nurse caring for a child would discuss the parents' work environment as part of an assessment of that child's:
1. Macrosystem.
2. Exosystem.
3. Mesosystem.
4. Chronosystem.
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Rationale:
1. Political and cultural beliefs comprise a child's macrosystem.
2. A child's exosystem is composed of the settings that influence a child even though she is not in daily contact with that system.
3. The relationships of one microsystem to another involve a child's mesosystem.
4. The chronosystem involves the perspective of time in the child's life.
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