Exam 31: Care of the Child with a Physical and Mental or Cognitive Disorder

The nurse uses a diagram to show that the tetralogy of Fallot involves a combination of four congenital defects. What are the defects?

Which additional congenital malformation is expected in 80% of infants with a myelomeningocele?

The mother of a child who has been diagnosed with varicella asks the nurse when the child can return to school. When is the child no longer contagious?

A teenage girl has been placed in a brace for the treatment of scoliosis, the most common skeletal deformity of adolescence. The family asks what they can do to be more supportive. What suggestion of the nurse is the most appropriate?

Parents of a 6-month-old child, who has just been diagnosed with iron deficiency anemia, ask why it was not diagnosed earlier. What would be the best response by the nurse?

The nurse reassures the anxious mother of a child with pyloric stenosis who is to have surgery that the surgical procedure, called a __________, is quickly done and the child recovers almost immediately.

When the nurse performs the initial assessment of an adolescent with depression, what is the most important question to ask?

When interacting with the parents of a SIDS infant, the nurse should attempt to assist the parents with:

What is the hallmark sign of intussusception?

What are the clinical manifestations of otitis media?

What should the therapeutic management of iron deficiency anemia include?

A child with Duchenne muscular dystrophy rises from the floor by walking up the thighs with the hands. How should the nurse record this observation?

Parents of a 5-year-old child diagnosed as cognitively impaired have come to the nurse to discuss different approaches to the ongoing care of their child. The nurse should suggest focusing on what activity?

What assessment findings should lead the nurse to suspect Down syndrome in a newborn?

What is the main characteristic of cystic fibrosis?

The nurse educates the family of a newly admitted child with cystic fibrosis that the treatment will be centered on what therapy?

When the mother of a child with gastroesophageal reflux calls the clinic nurse to report that her baby is vomiting small amounts of blood, the nurse explains that the esophagus has been irritated by _______ ________.

Which is a priority nursing intervention for the cognitively impaired child?

When speaking to young parents, the nurse states that lead poisoning is one of the most common preventable health problems affecting children. What condition occurs when the level of lead ingested exceeds the amount that can be absorbed by the bone?

Recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) is most often seen in school-age or adolescent children. The nurse should assess closely for what potential problems?