A nurse is making an initial home visit for a family who was recently discharged from the hospital. The parents experienced a difficult birth, and the newborn was diagnosed with spina bifida. While caring for this family, the nurse would attribute this episode to which type of crisis and provide care accordingly?

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Different kinds of crises (multiple) can overlap in actual experience, compounding the stress felt by the persons involved. A situational crisis is a stressful, disruptive event arising from external circumstances that occur suddenly, often without warning, to a person, group, aggregate, or community. A developmental crisis is periods of disruption that occur at transition points during normal growth and development. Crisis resolution can be an adaptive process in which growth and improved health occur, or it can be maladaptive, resulting in illness or death.

A Nurse Is Making an Initial Home Visit for a Family