Question

1.Give a brief discussion of why a nurse needs to study growth and development

2.Discuss one sex-linked genetic disease

Answer 1

1)In the duties of nurses they come across many patients of different ages they have to treated ,so they need to study the growth and development.Their study in the growth and development helps in diagnosing some disorders that are depending on growth and development.

To know the developmental and cognitive defects and abnormalities of the baby.

So it is important for a nurse to study about growth and development.

2)

Sex linked genetic disease;

Hemophilia is a sex linked genetic disease in which blood is unable to clot normally.So when there is a injury there is excessive bleeding and severe loss of blood.

It is an inherited condition.

In normal individual when there is injury , platelets adhere to the place of injury and clotting factors also there form clot and prevent the loss of blood

Whereas in hemophilia individual ,he doesn't have enough clotting factors that are needed for formation of clot.so there is excessive bleeding.

Hemophilia is of two types

Hemophilia-A - it is due to absence of clotting factor VIII and

Hemophilia -B- it is due to absence of clotting factor IX.