FULL TEST BANK
Advanced Practice Nursing: Essentials for Role Development 5TH Edition Joel
,Chapter 1: Advanced Practice Nursing: Doing What Has to Be Done-Radicals, Renegades, and Rebels
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The RN manager of a pediatric clinic could confirm that the new RN recognized the purpose of the HEADSS
Adolescent Risk Profile when the new RN responds that it is used to assess for needs related to
a. anticipatory guidance.
b. low-risk adolescents.
c. physical development.
d. sexual development.
CORRECT ANS: A
Feedback: The HEADSS Adolescent Risk Profile is a psychosocial assessment screening tool 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.
REF: 6 OBJ: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and Maintenance
2. The RN preparing a teaching 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 ANS: C
Feedback: 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
,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.
REF: 5 OBJ: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and Maintenance
3. The school RN talking with a high school class about the difference between growth and development would
best 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 ANS: D
Feedback: 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
asdifferentiation. Psychosocial and cognitive changes are referred to as development. Qualitative changes associated
with aging are referred to as maturation.
REF: 2 OBJ: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and Maintenance
4. The most appropriate response of the RN 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 ANS: C
Feedback: 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 diagnosis. Diagnosis requires a thorough neurodevelopment
history and physical 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.
, REF: 4 OBJ: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and Maintenance
5. To plan early intervention and care for an infant with Down syndrome, the RN considers knowledge of other
physical development exemplars such as
a. cerebral palsy.
b. failure to thrive.
c. fetal alcohol syndrome.
d. hydrocephaly.
CORRECT ANS: D
Feedback: Hydrocephaly is also a physical development exemplar. Cerebral palsy is an exemplar of adaptive
developmental delay. Failure to thrive is an exemplar of social/emotional developmental delay.
Fetal alcohol syndrome is an exemplar of cognitive developmental delay.
REF: 9 OBJ: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and Maintenance
6. To plan early intervention and care for a child with a developmental delay, the RN would consider knowledge
of the concepts most significantly impacted by development, including
a. culture.
b. environment.
c. functional status.
d. nutrition.
CORRECT ANS: C
Feedback: Function is one of the concepts most significantly impacted by development. Others include sensory-
perceptual, cognition, mobility, reproduction, and sexuality. Knowledge of these concepts can help the RN anticipate
areas that need to be addressed. Culture is a concept that is considered to significantly affect development; the
difference is the concepts that affect development are those that represent major influencing factors (causes), hence
determination of development and would be the focus of preventive interventions. Environment is considered to
significantly affect development. Nutrition is considered to significantly affect development.
REF: 1 OBJ: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and Maintenance
Advanced Practice Nursing: Essentials for Role Development 5TH Edition Joel
,Chapter 1: Advanced Practice Nursing: Doing What Has to Be Done-Radicals, Renegades, and Rebels
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The RN manager of a pediatric clinic could confirm that the new RN recognized the purpose of the HEADSS
Adolescent Risk Profile when the new RN responds that it is used to assess for needs related to
a. anticipatory guidance.
b. low-risk adolescents.
c. physical development.
d. sexual development.
CORRECT ANS: A
Feedback: The HEADSS Adolescent Risk Profile is a psychosocial assessment screening tool 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.
REF: 6 OBJ: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and Maintenance
2. The RN preparing a teaching 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 ANS: C
Feedback: 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
,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.
REF: 5 OBJ: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and Maintenance
3. The school RN talking with a high school class about the difference between growth and development would
best 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 ANS: D
Feedback: 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
asdifferentiation. Psychosocial and cognitive changes are referred to as development. Qualitative changes associated
with aging are referred to as maturation.
REF: 2 OBJ: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and Maintenance
4. The most appropriate response of the RN 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 ANS: C
Feedback: 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 diagnosis. Diagnosis requires a thorough neurodevelopment
history and physical 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.
, REF: 4 OBJ: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and Maintenance
5. To plan early intervention and care for an infant with Down syndrome, the RN considers knowledge of other
physical development exemplars such as
a. cerebral palsy.
b. failure to thrive.
c. fetal alcohol syndrome.
d. hydrocephaly.
CORRECT ANS: D
Feedback: Hydrocephaly is also a physical development exemplar. Cerebral palsy is an exemplar of adaptive
developmental delay. Failure to thrive is an exemplar of social/emotional developmental delay.
Fetal alcohol syndrome is an exemplar of cognitive developmental delay.
REF: 9 OBJ: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and Maintenance
6. To plan early intervention and care for a child with a developmental delay, the RN would consider knowledge
of the concepts most significantly impacted by development, including
a. culture.
b. environment.
c. functional status.
d. nutrition.
CORRECT ANS: C
Feedback: Function is one of the concepts most significantly impacted by development. Others include sensory-
perceptual, cognition, mobility, reproduction, and sexuality. Knowledge of these concepts can help the RN anticipate
areas that need to be addressed. Culture is a concept that is considered to significantly affect development; the
difference is the concepts that affect development are those that represent major influencing factors (causes), hence
determination of development and would be the focus of preventive interventions. Environment is considered to
significantly affect development. Nutrition is considered to significantly affect development.
REF: 1 OBJ: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and Maintenance
