NSG 3600 Pediatrics Exam 3 | Questions
and Answers | 2026 Updates | 100% correct
| Galen
acute diarrhea causes - ANSWER- -- Rotavirus
- Diet/food
- Infection
- Medication - ANTIBIOTICS
- Toxic substances
What are you worried about with acute diarrhea? - ANSWER- -- Dehydration( look at skin
turgor)
- Electrolyte imbalance
Interventions for Acute Diarrhea - ANSWER- -- Give Pedialyte
- IV fluids, NO FRUIT JUICE
- Electrolytes, START with bland, soft food
Prevention for Acute Diarrhea - ANSWER- -- Handwashing
- Proper Food handling
Cleft lip and palate Meaning - ANSWER- -- Facial malformation during embryonic
development
- Native American/ Asian Male
Cleft lip and palate risk factors - ANSWER- -- Smoking
,- Gestational Diabetes
- Use of certain meds
- Lack of folic acid prenatal
Cleft lip and palate interventions - ANSWER- -- Haberman feeder
- Promote bonding between family
- Burp infants often
- No- Nos ( elbow restraints: take off every 1-2hrs)
- Apply petroleum jelly to operative site
- Feed with syringe/ dropper until surgical site is healed
Intussusception - ANSWER- -- Intestines folding into itself causing an obstruction normally at
the ileocecal valve
Intussusception Risk Factors - ANSWER- -- Males less than 18 months
- Cystic Fibrosis
Intussusception signs and symptoms - ANSWER- -- Current jelly stool
-Sausage shaped mass in RUG
- pulling legs to chest
- Vomiting
Intussusception Systom triad - ANSWER- -- Stool with blood
- Screaming with drawing up legs
- Paroxysmal episodic abdominal pain with vomitting every 5-30 minutes.
, Intussuspection Dx - ANSWER- -- BARIUM ENEMA
- Abdominal ultrasound
Intussuspection Intervention - ANSWER- -- Monitor for signs of perforation, peritonitis and
shock.
- coach and reeda stool and if patient passed stool alert pcp.
- If child has surgery: NPO, NGT, IV fluids
- Fever greater than 99.5 is very bad, alert PCP.
- Moniotor for infection
failure to thrive - ANSWER- -a condition in which infants become malnourished and fail to
grow or gain weight for no obvious medical reason
Failure to thrive symptoms - ANSWER- -- weight < 5th percentile, length WNL
- decreased or lack of subcutaneous fat
- pale skin
- developmental delays
- Decreased albumin levels
appendicitis - ANSWER- -inflammation of the appendix
appendictis s/s - ANSWER- -- Periumbilical pain
- RLQ pain
Appendictis Interventions - ANSWER- -- Monitor VS
- If Pain stops CALL THE PCP, IT COULD HAVE RUPTURED
-NPO 24hrs post op
- Monitor for peritonitis( stiff tender abdomen)
Hirschsprung disease - ANSWER- -absent ganglion cells in submucosal/myenteric plexus
rectosigmoid ( meaning there's a blockage that stops peristalsis from occurring). - Common in
Down syndrome kids
Hirschsprung Symptoms - ANSWER- -- inability to pass stool meconium within the first 24-48
hours,
and Answers | 2026 Updates | 100% correct
| Galen
acute diarrhea causes - ANSWER- -- Rotavirus
- Diet/food
- Infection
- Medication - ANTIBIOTICS
- Toxic substances
What are you worried about with acute diarrhea? - ANSWER- -- Dehydration( look at skin
turgor)
- Electrolyte imbalance
Interventions for Acute Diarrhea - ANSWER- -- Give Pedialyte
- IV fluids, NO FRUIT JUICE
- Electrolytes, START with bland, soft food
Prevention for Acute Diarrhea - ANSWER- -- Handwashing
- Proper Food handling
Cleft lip and palate Meaning - ANSWER- -- Facial malformation during embryonic
development
- Native American/ Asian Male
Cleft lip and palate risk factors - ANSWER- -- Smoking
,- Gestational Diabetes
- Use of certain meds
- Lack of folic acid prenatal
Cleft lip and palate interventions - ANSWER- -- Haberman feeder
- Promote bonding between family
- Burp infants often
- No- Nos ( elbow restraints: take off every 1-2hrs)
- Apply petroleum jelly to operative site
- Feed with syringe/ dropper until surgical site is healed
Intussusception - ANSWER- -- Intestines folding into itself causing an obstruction normally at
the ileocecal valve
Intussusception Risk Factors - ANSWER- -- Males less than 18 months
- Cystic Fibrosis
Intussusception signs and symptoms - ANSWER- -- Current jelly stool
-Sausage shaped mass in RUG
- pulling legs to chest
- Vomiting
Intussusception Systom triad - ANSWER- -- Stool with blood
- Screaming with drawing up legs
- Paroxysmal episodic abdominal pain with vomitting every 5-30 minutes.
, Intussuspection Dx - ANSWER- -- BARIUM ENEMA
- Abdominal ultrasound
Intussuspection Intervention - ANSWER- -- Monitor for signs of perforation, peritonitis and
shock.
- coach and reeda stool and if patient passed stool alert pcp.
- If child has surgery: NPO, NGT, IV fluids
- Fever greater than 99.5 is very bad, alert PCP.
- Moniotor for infection
failure to thrive - ANSWER- -a condition in which infants become malnourished and fail to
grow or gain weight for no obvious medical reason
Failure to thrive symptoms - ANSWER- -- weight < 5th percentile, length WNL
- decreased or lack of subcutaneous fat
- pale skin
- developmental delays
- Decreased albumin levels
appendicitis - ANSWER- -inflammation of the appendix
appendictis s/s - ANSWER- -- Periumbilical pain
- RLQ pain
Appendictis Interventions - ANSWER- -- Monitor VS
- If Pain stops CALL THE PCP, IT COULD HAVE RUPTURED
-NPO 24hrs post op
- Monitor for peritonitis( stiff tender abdomen)
Hirschsprung disease - ANSWER- -absent ganglion cells in submucosal/myenteric plexus
rectosigmoid ( meaning there's a blockage that stops peristalsis from occurring). - Common in
Down syndrome kids
Hirschsprung Symptoms - ANSWER- -- inability to pass stool meconium within the first 24-48
hours,
