NFDN 2005 ACTUAL EXAMS SCRIPT QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SET A+
should you prepare parents for a death at home? - ✔✔- Make sure they know who to
call
✔✔What are some aftercare considerations discussed with parents? - ✔✔- Autopsy
- Organ donation
✔✔Suicide - ✔✔- Particular area of concern = may cause "copycat suicides"
- Approach suicidal children by asking candidly and get them help
✔✔Mass Tragedy - ✔✔incident such as school shootings
- Provide counselling and identify children who are at risk
- Address safety
✔✔How can you engage in good self-care? - ✔✔- Don't get overinvolved
- Don't pressure yourself to be perfect
- Take time for yourself
- Engage in self-reflection
- Ask for support at work
✔✔Congenital Disorder - ✔✔a disorder present from birth
- Not all congenital disorders are genetic - may be caused by prenatal exposure or
idiopathic
✔✔Gene - ✔✔unit of heredity
✔✔Genotype - ✔✔genetic construction of an organism
, ✔✔Phenotype - ✔✔set of observable characteristics
✔✔Heterozygous Gene - ✔✔one gene is dominant, and one is recessive
✔✔Homozygous Gene - ✔✔both genes are dominant or recessive
✔✔Recessive Disorders - ✔✔needs to get disorder (gene) from both parents
- If only one parent has it, they become a "carrier"
- Ex: Cystic Fibrosis
✔✔Dominant Disorders - ✔✔only need one gene to get disorder
- Ex: Huntington Disease (does not show up until middle age)
✔✔X-Linked Disorders - ✔✔X-Linked Disorders: only linked to X chromosome
- Ex: hemophilia (common in boys)
✔✔Nondisjunction Disorders - ✔✔meiosis of gene (not liked to parents)
- Ex: Turner, Edward, Patau and Down Syndrome
✔✔Cleft Lip/Palate - ✔✔- Lip or palate don't fuse properly
- May be unilateral or bilateral
- Special feeding equipment
· Feed upright
· Sometimes fed with G-Tube if severe
10 weeks
· Vulnerable to ear infection (deafness)
- Surgical repair is repaired
✔✔Umbilical Hernia - ✔✔- Defect in the umbilicus
- Bowel protrudes through abdominal wall
- 85% close on their own
- Common in girls
- Instruct parents not to put anything tight around the area (causes strangulation)
✔✔Spina Bifida - ✔✔- Lack of folic acid
- Types: occult (less traumatic) and Myelomeningocele
- Neural tube defect
- Spine does not form normally (effects mobility - paralyzed from waist down)
- Surgical repair
✔✔Hydrocephalus - ✔✔- Overproduction of CSF
AND ANSWERS SET A+
should you prepare parents for a death at home? - ✔✔- Make sure they know who to
call
✔✔What are some aftercare considerations discussed with parents? - ✔✔- Autopsy
- Organ donation
✔✔Suicide - ✔✔- Particular area of concern = may cause "copycat suicides"
- Approach suicidal children by asking candidly and get them help
✔✔Mass Tragedy - ✔✔incident such as school shootings
- Provide counselling and identify children who are at risk
- Address safety
✔✔How can you engage in good self-care? - ✔✔- Don't get overinvolved
- Don't pressure yourself to be perfect
- Take time for yourself
- Engage in self-reflection
- Ask for support at work
✔✔Congenital Disorder - ✔✔a disorder present from birth
- Not all congenital disorders are genetic - may be caused by prenatal exposure or
idiopathic
✔✔Gene - ✔✔unit of heredity
✔✔Genotype - ✔✔genetic construction of an organism
, ✔✔Phenotype - ✔✔set of observable characteristics
✔✔Heterozygous Gene - ✔✔one gene is dominant, and one is recessive
✔✔Homozygous Gene - ✔✔both genes are dominant or recessive
✔✔Recessive Disorders - ✔✔needs to get disorder (gene) from both parents
- If only one parent has it, they become a "carrier"
- Ex: Cystic Fibrosis
✔✔Dominant Disorders - ✔✔only need one gene to get disorder
- Ex: Huntington Disease (does not show up until middle age)
✔✔X-Linked Disorders - ✔✔X-Linked Disorders: only linked to X chromosome
- Ex: hemophilia (common in boys)
✔✔Nondisjunction Disorders - ✔✔meiosis of gene (not liked to parents)
- Ex: Turner, Edward, Patau and Down Syndrome
✔✔Cleft Lip/Palate - ✔✔- Lip or palate don't fuse properly
- May be unilateral or bilateral
- Special feeding equipment
· Feed upright
· Sometimes fed with G-Tube if severe
10 weeks
· Vulnerable to ear infection (deafness)
- Surgical repair is repaired
✔✔Umbilical Hernia - ✔✔- Defect in the umbilicus
- Bowel protrudes through abdominal wall
- 85% close on their own
- Common in girls
- Instruct parents not to put anything tight around the area (causes strangulation)
✔✔Spina Bifida - ✔✔- Lack of folic acid
- Types: occult (less traumatic) and Myelomeningocele
- Neural tube defect
- Spine does not form normally (effects mobility - paralyzed from waist down)
- Surgical repair
✔✔Hydrocephalus - ✔✔- Overproduction of CSF
