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NURSING: ESSENTIALS FOR ROLE
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DEVELOPMENT 5TH EDITION BY JOEL.
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Advanced Practice Nursing: Doing What Has to Be Done-Radicals, Renegades, and
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1. The nurse manager of a pediatric clinic could confirm that the new nurse
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recognized the purpose of the HEADSS Adolescent Risk Profile when the new nurse
responds that it is used to assess for needs related to
a. anticipatory guidance.
b. low-risk adolescents.
c. physical development.
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d. sexual development.
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The HEADSS Adolescent Risk Profile is a psychosocial assessment screening tool
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which assesses home, education, activities, drugs, sex, and suicide for the purpose
of identifying high-risk adolescents and the need for anticipatory guidance. It is
used to identify high-risk, not low-risk, adolescents. Physical development is
assessed with anthropometric data. Sexual development is assessed using physical
examination.
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REF: 6 OBJ: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and Maintenance
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2. The nurse preparing a teaching plan for a preschooler knows that, according
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to Piaget, the expected stage of development for a preschooler is
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a. concrete operational.
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b. formal operational.
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c. preoperational.
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d. sensorimotor.
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The expected stage of development for a preschooler (3 to 4 years old) is
preoperational. Concrete operational describes the thinking of a school-age child (7
to 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.
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REF: 5 OBJ: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and Maintenance
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3. The school nurse talking with a high school class about the difference
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between growth and development would best describe growth as
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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.
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ANS: D
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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
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by which early cells specialize are referred to asdifferentiation. Psychosocial and
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cognitive changes are referred to as development. Qualitative changes associated
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with aging are referred to as maturation.
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4. The most appropriate response of the nurse when a mother asks what the Denver II
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does is that it
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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.
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The Denver II is the most commonly used measure of developmental status used by
health care professionals; it is a screening tool. Screening tools do not provide a
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diagnosis. Diagnosis requires a thorough neurodevelopment history and physical
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examination. Developmental delay, which is suggested by screening, is a symptom,
not a diagnosis. The need for any therapy would be identified with a comprehensive
evaluation, not a screening tool. Some providers use the Denver II as a framework
for teaching about expected development, but this is not the primary purpose of the
tool.
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