, Testbank Concepts for Nursing Practice –
3rd Edition
Concept 01: Development
Giddens: Concepts for Nursing Practice, 3rd Edition
Multiple Choice
1. The nurse manager of a pediatric clinic could confirm that the
new nurse recognized the
purpose of the HEADSS Adolescent Risk Profile when the new
nurse responds that it is
used to review for needs related to
a. anticipatory guidance.
b. low-risk adolescents.
c. physical development.
d. sexual development.
Correct answer: A
The HEADSS Adolescent Risk Profile is a psychosocial evaluation
screening tool which
reviews home, education, activities, drugs, sex, and suicide for
the purpose of identifying
high-risk adolescents and the need for anticipatory guidance. It
serves to identify high-risk,
not low-risk, adolescents. Physical development is reviewed with
anthropometric data.
,Sexual development is reviewed using physical examination.
Objective: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and
Maintenance
2. The nurse preparing a education plan for a preschooler knows
that, according to Piaget,
the expected stage of development for a preschooler is
a. concrete operational.
b. formal operational.
c. preoperational.
d. sensorimotor.
Correct answer: C
The expected stage of development for a preschooler (3–4 years
old) is pre-operational.
Concrete operational describes the thinking of a school-age child
(7–11 years old). Formal
operational describes the thinking of an individual after about 11
years of age.
Sensorimotor describes the earliest pattern of thinking from
birth to 2 years old.
Objective: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and
Maintenance
3. The school nurse talking with a high school class about the
difference between growth
and development would most accurately describe growth as
a. processes by which early cells specialize.
, b. psychosocial and cognitive changes.
c. qualitative changes associated with aging.
d. quantitative changes in size or
weight. Correct answer: D
Growth is a quantitative change in which an increase in cell
number and size results in an
increase in overall size or weight of the body or any of its parts.
The processes by which
early cells specialize are referred to as differentiation.
Psychosocial and cognitive changes
are referred to as development. Qualitative changes associated
with aging are referred to as
maturation.
Objective: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and
Maintenance
4. The best nursing response of the nurse when a mother asks
what the Denver II does
is that it
a. can diagnose developmental disabilities.
b. identifies a need for physical therapy.
c. is a developmental screening tool.
d. provides a framework for health teaching.
Correct answer: C
The Denver II is the most commonly used measure of
developmental status used by
3rd Edition
Concept 01: Development
Giddens: Concepts for Nursing Practice, 3rd Edition
Multiple Choice
1. The nurse manager of a pediatric clinic could confirm that the
new nurse recognized the
purpose of the HEADSS Adolescent Risk Profile when the new
nurse responds that it is
used to review for needs related to
a. anticipatory guidance.
b. low-risk adolescents.
c. physical development.
d. sexual development.
Correct answer: A
The HEADSS Adolescent Risk Profile is a psychosocial evaluation
screening tool which
reviews home, education, activities, drugs, sex, and suicide for
the purpose of identifying
high-risk adolescents and the need for anticipatory guidance. It
serves to identify high-risk,
not low-risk, adolescents. Physical development is reviewed with
anthropometric data.
,Sexual development is reviewed using physical examination.
Objective: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and
Maintenance
2. The nurse preparing a education plan for a preschooler knows
that, according to Piaget,
the expected stage of development for a preschooler is
a. concrete operational.
b. formal operational.
c. preoperational.
d. sensorimotor.
Correct answer: C
The expected stage of development for a preschooler (3–4 years
old) is pre-operational.
Concrete operational describes the thinking of a school-age child
(7–11 years old). Formal
operational describes the thinking of an individual after about 11
years of age.
Sensorimotor describes the earliest pattern of thinking from
birth to 2 years old.
Objective: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and
Maintenance
3. The school nurse talking with a high school class about the
difference between growth
and development would most accurately describe growth as
a. processes by which early cells specialize.
, b. psychosocial and cognitive changes.
c. qualitative changes associated with aging.
d. quantitative changes in size or
weight. Correct answer: D
Growth is a quantitative change in which an increase in cell
number and size results in an
increase in overall size or weight of the body or any of its parts.
The processes by which
early cells specialize are referred to as differentiation.
Psychosocial and cognitive changes
are referred to as development. Qualitative changes associated
with aging are referred to as
maturation.
Objective: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and
Maintenance
4. The best nursing response of the nurse when a mother asks
what the Denver II does
is that it
a. can diagnose developmental disabilities.
b. identifies a need for physical therapy.
c. is a developmental screening tool.
d. provides a framework for health teaching.
Correct answer: C
The Denver II is the most commonly used measure of
developmental status used by
