Exam 23: Pediatric Nursing Interventions and Skills

To facilitate the administration of an oral medication to a preschool-age child,what action should the nurse take?

A 10-year-old child requires daily medications for a chronic illness.Her mother tells the nurse that the child continually forgets to take the medicine unless reminded.What nursing action is most appropriate to promote adherence to the medication regimen?

Guidelines for intramuscular administration of medication in school-age children include what standard?

The nurse is administering an IM injection into a vastus lateralis muscle of a 6-month-old infant.What should the length of the needle and amount to be given be?

The practitioner has ordered a liquid oral antibiotic for a toddler with otitis media.The prescription reads 1 1/2 tsp four times per day.What should the nurse consider in teaching the mother how to give the medicine?

What disease processes require contact isolation?

A bone marrow biopsy will be performed on a 7-year-old girl.She wants her mother to hold her during the procedure.How should the nurse respond?

A 2-year-old child is being admitted to the hospital for possible bacterial meningitis.When preparing for a lumbar puncture,what should the nurse do?

The nurse is preparing a 9-year-old boy before obtaining a blood specimen by venipuncture.The child tells the nurse he does not want to lose his blood.What approach is best by the nurse?

A 5-year-old child returns from the pediatric intensive care unit after abdominal surgery.The orders state to monitor vital signs every 2 hours.On assessment,the nurse observes that the child's heart rate is 20 beats/min less than it was preoperatively.What should be the nurse's next action?

The nurse is preparing to administer a liquid medication by a nasogastric feeding tube.What is the first thing the nurse should do?

When teaching a mother how to administer eye drops,where should the nurse tell her to place them?

A laboratory technician is performing a blood draw on a toddler.The toddler is holding still but crying loudly.The nurse should take which action?

The nurse needs to start an intravenous (IV)line on an 8-year-old child to begin administering intravenous antibiotics.The child starts to cry and tells the nurse,"Do it later,okay?" What action should the nurse take?

What is an advantage of the ventrogluteal muscle as an injection site in young children?

At which age should a nurse keep teaching time short (5 minutes)?

What methods should the nurse use to measure compliance to a treatment plan?

A critically ill child has hyperthermia.The parents ask the nurse to give an antipyretic such as acetaminophen.How should the nurse respond to the parents?

What is a priority intervention for an infant with a temporary colostomy for Hirschsprung disease?

A preschool child needs a dressing change.To prepare the child,what strategy should the nurse implement?