, Advanced Practice Nursing: Essentials for Role
Development Fourth Edition
by Lucille A. Joel (Author
Advanced Practice Nursing: Doing What Has to Be Done-Radicals, Renegades,
andRebels
1. The nurse manager of a pediatric clinic could confirm that the new nurse
recognized the purposeof 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.
d. sexual development.
ANS: A
The HEADSS Adolescent Risk Profile is a psychosocial assessment screening tool
which assesseshome, 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.
,REF: 6 OBJ: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and Maintenance
2. The nurse preparing a teaching plan for a preschooler knows that, according
to Piaget, theexpected stage of development for a preschooler is
, a. concrete operational.
b. formal operational.
c. preoperational.
d. sensorimotor.
ANS: C
The expected stage of development for a preschooler (3 to 4 years old) is
preoperational. Concreteoperational describes the thinking of a school-age child (7
to 11 years old). Formal operational