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

A newborn has talipes and is wearing casts.How often should the casts be changed?

What is the priority nursing diagnosis for the parents of a newborn born with cleft lip and palate?

The nurse anticipates that the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)taken from a child with bacterial meningitis would have a low __________ level.

What is the most common method of attempted suicide?

When performing an assessment of a child with recurrent abdominal pain (RAP),the nurse recognizes the child will most likely experience what symptom?

The nurse instructs the mother of a child with a ventricular septal defect that she can expect the child to become cyanotic when the child does what?

What should the nurse caring for a 6-year-old child with acute glomerulonephritis anticipate as the most difficult part of the care to implement?

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?

What should the nurse assess in an infant who has been diagnosed with hypertrophic pyloric stenosis?

When caring for a 7-week-old infant with hypothyroidism,the nurse explains that the prevention of what complication is dependent on the administration of oral thyroid replacement therapy and is critical for the child?

The nurse explains that cognitive impairment is categorized by four levels that depend on the intelligence quotient (IQ).How is a child with an IQ of 45 classified?

The nurse instructs the parents of a child who has had a myringotomy to place the child in which position?

The nurse is caring for a newborn with a myelomeningocele.Before surgery,what should the nursing interventions include?

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?

The parents of a child suffering from depression ask the nurse what causes depression in children.Which answer is an appropriate response by the nurse?

What is the major criterion for diagnosing a child as cognitively impaired?

A new mother asks the clinic nurse if she must continue giving her baby nystatin for thrush since the white lesions on his tongue have disappeared.What response by the nurse is most appropriate?

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?

What other congenital defects are common in children with Down syndrome?

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?