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Nur6130 Exam #2
1. A mother brings her 6-year-old daughter to a pediatric primary care nurse practitioner for
evaluation of breast and axillary hair growth. The patient has grown 1 inch in the last three
months. The nurse practitioner's action is to:
Refer the child to a pediatric endocrinologist for management.
2. A mother of an 11 year old boy is concerned that her son is developing secondary sexual
characteristics too early. Your counselling for this family is based on the knowledge that
puberty is consider precocious in boys if secondary sexual characteristic appear prior to
age?
a. 12 years
b. 11 years
c. 10 years
d. 9 years
3. Which of the is most likely to be part of the clinical presentation of a UTI in a 9 month old
child?
a. Fever
b. Vomiting
c. Diarrhea
d. Cough
4. You are following a 4-year-old girl in your practice with a history of breast development that
appeared 12 months ago and that appears to be progressing. She is growing rapidly. The np
considers ordering a bone age because she knows that most cases of premature thelarche in
girls are:
a. A result of enzymatic defects
b. Due to systemic CNS disease
c. Idiopathic
d. A result of hypothyroidism
, 5. What is the first management option in a 4 year old with signs of attention deficit with
hyperactivity (ADHD)?
Behavioral therapy
6. The onset of puberty is marked by:
Breast buds are the first sign of the onset of puberty in females.
7. The NP examines a 6-week-old female in the clinic for the first time with a bright red, raised,
rubbery lesion of irregular shape on the infant's occiput. What condition would you suspect?
Capillary hemangioma