Answers.
1. Which nursing role is not directly involved
4. Researcher
when pro- viding family-centered approach to
the pediatric pop- ulation?
1. Advocacy
2. Case management
3. Patient education
4. Researcher
2. A nurse is working with pediatric clients in a
2. The 7-year-old
research facility. The nurse recognizes that
leukemia client electing
federal guidelines are in place that delineate
to receive a newly
which pediatrics clients must give assent for
developed medication,
participation in research trials. Based upon
now being re-
the clients age, the nurse would seek assent
searched.
from which children? Select all that apply.
3. The 10-year-old
1. The precocious 4-year-old starting as a
starting in an
cystic fibro- sis research-study participant.
investigative study for
2. The 7-year-old leukemia client electing to clients with precocious
receive a newly developed medication, now puberty.
being researched. 4. The 13-year-old clie
3. The 10-year-old starting in an investigative study for beginning
participation in
clients with precocious puberty. a research program for
4. The 13-year-old client beginning ADHD treatments.
participation in a research program for
ADHD treatments.
3. The nurse in a pediatric acute-care unit is assigned the 1. Diagnose an
8-year-old
following tasks. Which task is not appropriate media
for the registered to nurse complete? and
1. Diagnose an 8-year-old with acute otitis prescrib
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an antibiotic. with acute otitis media
2. Listen to the concerns of an adolescent and prescribe an
about being out of school for a lengthy antibiot- ic.
surgical recovery.
3. Provide information to a mother of a newly
diag- nosed 4-year-old diabetic about local
support-group
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options.
4. Diagnose a 6-year-old with Diversional
Activity Deficit related to placement in
isolation.
2. Clinical pathways
4. A 7-year-old child is admitted for acute
appendicitis. The parents are questioning the
nurse about expec- tations during the childs
recovery. Which information tool would be
most useful in answering a parents questions
about the timing of key events?
1. Healthy People 2020
2. Clinical pathways
3. Child mortality statistics
4. National clinical practice guidelines
5. The nurse recognizes that the pediatric client is from a 2. Facilitate the
family's
cultural background different from that of the hospital ability to comply
with the
staff. Which goal is most appropriate for this care needed.
client when planning nursing care?
1. Overlook or minimize the differences that
exist.
2. Facilitate the family's ability to comply with
the care needed.
3. Avoid inadvertently offending the family
by impos- ing the nurses perspective.
4. Encourage complementary beneficial
cultural prac- tices as primary therapies.
6. The telephone triage nurse at a pediatric clinic knows 1. A 3-week-o
infant
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each call is important. Which call would require extra born at 35
weeks gesta-
attentiveness from the registered nurse because of an tion with
gastroenteritis
increased risk of mortality?
1. A 3-week-old infant born at 35 weeks gestation
with gastroenteritis