A Nurse Is Assessing Family Structure

question 21

Multiple Choice

A nurse is assessing family structure. Which of the following describes what the nurse should recognize?

• A) An individual may experience many different family structures over a lifetime.
• B) The variations in family structure are becoming less common.
• C) The traditional nuclear family is the most common family structure.
• D) There is great variation among family structures.

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Definitions:

Cephalocaudal Principle

Principle that development proceeds in a head-to-tail direction, that is, that upper parts of the body develop before lower parts of the trunk.

Proximodistal Principle

Principle that development proceeds from within to without, that is, that parts of the body near the center develop before the extremities.

Proximodistal

Refers to the pattern of development that moves from the center or core of the body outward towards the extremities.

Cephalocaudal

A pattern of growth and development in which progress is made from the head downward, typically observed in infants.