In assessing a female client with moderate anemia, the nurse would expect to find with of the following ?
Hematocrit 45%
Pulse rate 140 /sec
Complains of shortness of breath with exercise
WBC 14,000 cell/mm
A client whose husband has hemophilia asks if her newborn baby girl could have the disease . The nurse 's response is based on the knowledge that :
The most common forms of hemophilia are transmitted as sex-linked recessive disorders ; her daughter is at risk for carrying the defective gene
Because hemophilia is a sex-linked recessive disorder carried on the Y chromosome , her daughter has no risk of having or carrying the disease
Hemophilia is an autosomal dominant disorder ; therefore , her daughter has a 50% chance of having the disorder
although hemophilia is genetically transmitted , its pattern of inheritance is unknown , and her daughter will need to be tested for the defective gene