Exam 22: Caring for the Child With a Psychosocial or Condition

An advanced practice nurse is working with a child diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder.What action by the nurse is most appropriate?

A nurse is working with the family of a child who is overweight.What action by the nurse is most appropriate?

A school nurse is speaking with the parents of a child identified as possibly being at risk of suicide.Which question by the nurse is the priority during the nursing assessment?

A nurse in the pediatric clinic suspects a patient is the victim of child abuse.What action takes priority?

A nurse is providing education to the parents of a child who has anxiety.Using the FRIENDS strategy for managing anxiety,what techniques does the nurse teach?

A nurse is assessing families in the community for child maltreatment.Which family would the nurse identify as being at highest risk?

A nurse has identified substance abuse in an adolescent.In addition to a treatment center referral,what other referral is most important?

A child with Down's syndrome has been admitted to the hospital with a respiratory condition and is producing thick,tenacious mucus.Which nursing action is the priority?

A nurse is educating the parents of a child diagnosed with major depression prescribed a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI).The parents do not want to fill the prescription because they have heard SSRIs increase the risk of suicide in children.Which statement by the nurse is most appropriate?

A faculty member is explaining the impact of immigration on mental health to a group of nursing students.What information should the faculty member provide?

A nurse is teaching a classroom of middle school students sleep hygiene.Which information does the nurse provide?

The pediatric nurse is assessing a child who complains of a stomach ache.This is the child's fourth visit to the clinic for the same problem,and there has not been a diagnosis yet.What action by the nurse is best?

The nurse is working with the family of a child with conduct disorder (CD).The parents are very stressed and fighting a great deal.What action by the nurse is the most appropriate?

A nurse is making a referral for a family whose teenage daughter has anorexia nervosa.Which referral is the most appropriate?

A nurse is working with the parents of a child who has the following complaints: fatigue,insomnia,persistent irritable mood,and significant weight loss.Which discharge instruction is the priority?

A nurse working with at-risk children recognizes that vulnerability to psychosocial or disorders depends on which risk factors?

A child diagnosed with depression is given the nursing diagnosis of situational low self-esteem.Which statement by the child indicates that a short-term goal has been met?

A mother brings her child to the clinic requesting a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI)to help treat her daughter's posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).Which rationale will the nurse use when responding to the child's mother?

A nurse wishes to increase an at-risk child's resilience.What action by the nurse would be most helpful?

A nurse is assessing children for reactive attachment disorder (RAD).Which child would the nurse identify as being at highest risk for this disorder?