NURS 373 MIDTERM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | NURS 373
STUDY GUIDE & PRACTICE TEST 2026/2027
What is family-centered care? - ANS ✔✔- Recognizing the family as the unit care
- Family is defined by the childbearing person
- Family includes those people who are significant to the childbearing person
- The relationship between the childbearing person, the family, and the perinatal nurse is based on
mutual respect and trust
Do nurses have an ethical an moral obligation to involve families in their health-care practices? - ANS
✔✔Yes
What is the age range for a neonate? - ANS ✔✔Birth to 27/28 days
What is the age range for an infant? - ANS ✔✔0-12 months
What is the age range for a toddler? - ANS ✔✔1-3 years
What is the age range for a child in preschool? - ANS ✔✔3-6 years
What is the age range for a school age child? - ANS ✔✔6-11 years
What is the age range for an adolescent? - ANS ✔✔11-18 years
What is normal development of an infant? - ANS ✔✔- Nurturance meeting basic needs
- Sense of trust-dependability
- Oral phase-importance of sucking
- Environment-strangers, safety are big concerns
- Major stressors-separation
What is normal growth development of an infant? - ANS ✔✔- Length increases by 50%
- Weight doubles by 6 months and tripes by 1 year
- Anterior and posterior fontanelles
- Eruption of teeth around 8 months
- Average age of walking is 15 months
What is normal development in a toddler? - ANS ✔✔- Motor skills develop faster than intellectual
- Sense of autonomy
- Must have mastery of self & environment
- Separation from mother
- Anal stage-seeking control, ritualistic, tantrums
- Major stressors-separation, fear of bodily harm, and alteration in routine
- Age of "no"
,What is normal growth development in a toddler? - ANS ✔✔- Growth rate slows 2nd year of life (mostly
in legs)
- Limited food intake
- Growth spurts-steplike on growth curve
- By age 2: half of adult height
- Head circumference = chest circumference
- Birth weight quadrupled (avg. weight 27 lbs)
- By 33 months: all deciduous teeth erupted and child has about 20 teeth in total
What is normal development in a preschool-aged child? - ANS ✔✔- Increasing independence-
imaginative, curious, energetic learning
- Sense of initiative-developing self image (male/female)
- Learning through imitation
- Socializes with peers
- Major stressors-fear of bodily harm, loss of control, heightened imagination leads to increased anxiety
- "Why" phase
- Likes to play with friends (parallel play - side by side but not together)
What is normal growth development in a preschool-aged child? - ANS ✔✔- Slow and steady (long bones
of arms and legs)
- Gain 3-5 lbs per year
- Grow about 2.5 to 3 inches per year
- Deciduous teeth development complete
- 6 years-starts to lose teeth and get secondary teeth
What is normal development in childhood? - ANS ✔✔- Development of logical thinking
- Interest outside of family
- Sense of industry-challenges, achievement
- Major stressors-loss of control, bodily injury, pain separation
- Honesty becomes quite important
- Privacy is also important
- Move into logical thinking (knowing why we are doing things, without an explanation)
- Brain has nearly completed development by 7 years
What is normal growth development in childhood? - ANS ✔✔- Slow and smooth (girls faster)
- 2 inches per year in height
- 6 lbs per year in weight
- By 7 years brain nearly completed its growth
- Development of small muscle and eye-hand coordination increases
- Pubertal growth
- Loss of teeth
What is normal development of an adolescent? - ANS ✔✔- Independence
- Physical and sexual maturity
- Major stressors-loss of control, threats to independence
What is normal growth development in an adolescent? - ANS ✔✔- Weight doubles and height increases
15-20%
, - Major organs double in size (except lymphoid tissue, which decreases)
- Boys gain strength and muscle mass
- Pituitary gland stimulated at puberty to produce androgen steroids responsible for secondary sex
characteristics
What are the developmental milestones (motor skill, language, and adaptive behaviour) for 4-6 week old
infants? - ANS ✔✔MOTOR SKILL: Head lifted from prone position and turned from side to side
LANGUAGE: Cries
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR: Smiles
What are the developmental milestones (motor skill, language, and adaptive behaviour) for a 4 month
old? - ANS ✔✔MOTOR SKILL: No head lag when pulled to sitting from supine position. Tries to grasp
large objects
LANGUAGE: Sounds of pleasure
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR: Smiles, laughs aloud, and shows pleasure to familiar objects or persons
What are the developmental milestones (motor skill, language, and adaptive behaviour) for a 5 month
old? - ANS ✔✔MOTOR SKILL: Voluntary grasp with both hands. Plays with toes
LANGUAGE: Primitive sounds: "ah goo"
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR: Smiles at self in mirror
What are the developmental milestones (motor skill, language, and adaptive behaviour) for a 8 month
old? - ANS ✔✔MOTOR SKILL: Sits without support. Transfers object from hand to hand. Rolls supine to
prone
LANGUAGE: Combines syllables: "baba, dada, mama"
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR: Responds to "no"
What are the developmental milestones (motor skill, language, and adaptive behaviour) for a 10 month
old? - ANS ✔✔MOTOR SKILL: Sit well, creeping, stands holding, finger-thumb opposition in picking up
small objects
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR: Waves "bye-bye", plays "patty-cake" and "peek-a-boo"
What are the developmental milestones (motor skill, language, and adaptive behaviour) for a 12 month
old? - ANS ✔✔MOTOR SKILL: Stands holding, walks with support
LANGUAGE: Says 2 or 3 words with meaning
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR: Understands names of objects. Shows interest in pictures
What are the developmental milestones (motor skill, language, and adaptive behaviour) for a 15 month
old? - ANS ✔✔MOTOR SKILL: Walks alone
LANGUAGE: Several intelligible words
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR: Requests by pointing. Imitating
What are the developmental milestones (motor skill, language, and adaptive behaviour) for an 18 month
old? - ANS ✔✔MOTOR SKILL: Walks up and down stairs holding. Removes clothes
LANGUAGE: Many intelligible words
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR: Caries out simple commands
STUDY GUIDE & PRACTICE TEST 2026/2027
What is family-centered care? - ANS ✔✔- Recognizing the family as the unit care
- Family is defined by the childbearing person
- Family includes those people who are significant to the childbearing person
- The relationship between the childbearing person, the family, and the perinatal nurse is based on
mutual respect and trust
Do nurses have an ethical an moral obligation to involve families in their health-care practices? - ANS
✔✔Yes
What is the age range for a neonate? - ANS ✔✔Birth to 27/28 days
What is the age range for an infant? - ANS ✔✔0-12 months
What is the age range for a toddler? - ANS ✔✔1-3 years
What is the age range for a child in preschool? - ANS ✔✔3-6 years
What is the age range for a school age child? - ANS ✔✔6-11 years
What is the age range for an adolescent? - ANS ✔✔11-18 years
What is normal development of an infant? - ANS ✔✔- Nurturance meeting basic needs
- Sense of trust-dependability
- Oral phase-importance of sucking
- Environment-strangers, safety are big concerns
- Major stressors-separation
What is normal growth development of an infant? - ANS ✔✔- Length increases by 50%
- Weight doubles by 6 months and tripes by 1 year
- Anterior and posterior fontanelles
- Eruption of teeth around 8 months
- Average age of walking is 15 months
What is normal development in a toddler? - ANS ✔✔- Motor skills develop faster than intellectual
- Sense of autonomy
- Must have mastery of self & environment
- Separation from mother
- Anal stage-seeking control, ritualistic, tantrums
- Major stressors-separation, fear of bodily harm, and alteration in routine
- Age of "no"
,What is normal growth development in a toddler? - ANS ✔✔- Growth rate slows 2nd year of life (mostly
in legs)
- Limited food intake
- Growth spurts-steplike on growth curve
- By age 2: half of adult height
- Head circumference = chest circumference
- Birth weight quadrupled (avg. weight 27 lbs)
- By 33 months: all deciduous teeth erupted and child has about 20 teeth in total
What is normal development in a preschool-aged child? - ANS ✔✔- Increasing independence-
imaginative, curious, energetic learning
- Sense of initiative-developing self image (male/female)
- Learning through imitation
- Socializes with peers
- Major stressors-fear of bodily harm, loss of control, heightened imagination leads to increased anxiety
- "Why" phase
- Likes to play with friends (parallel play - side by side but not together)
What is normal growth development in a preschool-aged child? - ANS ✔✔- Slow and steady (long bones
of arms and legs)
- Gain 3-5 lbs per year
- Grow about 2.5 to 3 inches per year
- Deciduous teeth development complete
- 6 years-starts to lose teeth and get secondary teeth
What is normal development in childhood? - ANS ✔✔- Development of logical thinking
- Interest outside of family
- Sense of industry-challenges, achievement
- Major stressors-loss of control, bodily injury, pain separation
- Honesty becomes quite important
- Privacy is also important
- Move into logical thinking (knowing why we are doing things, without an explanation)
- Brain has nearly completed development by 7 years
What is normal growth development in childhood? - ANS ✔✔- Slow and smooth (girls faster)
- 2 inches per year in height
- 6 lbs per year in weight
- By 7 years brain nearly completed its growth
- Development of small muscle and eye-hand coordination increases
- Pubertal growth
- Loss of teeth
What is normal development of an adolescent? - ANS ✔✔- Independence
- Physical and sexual maturity
- Major stressors-loss of control, threats to independence
What is normal growth development in an adolescent? - ANS ✔✔- Weight doubles and height increases
15-20%
, - Major organs double in size (except lymphoid tissue, which decreases)
- Boys gain strength and muscle mass
- Pituitary gland stimulated at puberty to produce androgen steroids responsible for secondary sex
characteristics
What are the developmental milestones (motor skill, language, and adaptive behaviour) for 4-6 week old
infants? - ANS ✔✔MOTOR SKILL: Head lifted from prone position and turned from side to side
LANGUAGE: Cries
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR: Smiles
What are the developmental milestones (motor skill, language, and adaptive behaviour) for a 4 month
old? - ANS ✔✔MOTOR SKILL: No head lag when pulled to sitting from supine position. Tries to grasp
large objects
LANGUAGE: Sounds of pleasure
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR: Smiles, laughs aloud, and shows pleasure to familiar objects or persons
What are the developmental milestones (motor skill, language, and adaptive behaviour) for a 5 month
old? - ANS ✔✔MOTOR SKILL: Voluntary grasp with both hands. Plays with toes
LANGUAGE: Primitive sounds: "ah goo"
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR: Smiles at self in mirror
What are the developmental milestones (motor skill, language, and adaptive behaviour) for a 8 month
old? - ANS ✔✔MOTOR SKILL: Sits without support. Transfers object from hand to hand. Rolls supine to
prone
LANGUAGE: Combines syllables: "baba, dada, mama"
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR: Responds to "no"
What are the developmental milestones (motor skill, language, and adaptive behaviour) for a 10 month
old? - ANS ✔✔MOTOR SKILL: Sit well, creeping, stands holding, finger-thumb opposition in picking up
small objects
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR: Waves "bye-bye", plays "patty-cake" and "peek-a-boo"
What are the developmental milestones (motor skill, language, and adaptive behaviour) for a 12 month
old? - ANS ✔✔MOTOR SKILL: Stands holding, walks with support
LANGUAGE: Says 2 or 3 words with meaning
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR: Understands names of objects. Shows interest in pictures
What are the developmental milestones (motor skill, language, and adaptive behaviour) for a 15 month
old? - ANS ✔✔MOTOR SKILL: Walks alone
LANGUAGE: Several intelligible words
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR: Requests by pointing. Imitating
What are the developmental milestones (motor skill, language, and adaptive behaviour) for an 18 month
old? - ANS ✔✔MOTOR SKILL: Walks up and down stairs holding. Removes clothes
LANGUAGE: Many intelligible words
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR: Caries out simple commands
