NUR 203 EXAM 1 UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

NUR 203 EXAM 1 UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. Students can demonstrate the principles and competencies of providing atraumatic care to pediatric
clients.
Answer:
-Prevent or minimize physical stressors, including pain, discomfort, immobility, sleep deprivation,
inability to eat or drink, and changes in elimination
-Prevent or minimize parent-child separation
-Promote family-centered care, treating the family as the patient
-Promote a sense of control
-Try and keep one nurse for pt

Question:
2. Students can discuss the role of the child life specialist in providing care to the pediatric client
Answer:
-give distractions
-ALWAYS provides safety *Provide support during medical procedure *Therapeutic play and activities to
support normal growth and development * Grief and bereavement support

Question:
3. Students can discuss how to develop therapeutic relationship and promote age-appropriate independence
with a hospitalized child
Answer:
-Make sure its age appropriate *If doing a spinal tap on a kid and they need to stay still do therapeutic
hugging
-Therapeutic touch does not help with safety
-Alternative distractions can allow kids to cooperate
-School age kids can suture a doll

Question:
4. Students can discuss the points of focus of health supervision
Answer:
-Provides productivity to promote best over all health for kids *Teaches parents to prevent injury
*Optimize level of function *Provides care set by national guidelines
-Partnership is the key to starting these

Question:
5. Students can demonstrate priority education to parents of a child with epilepsy
Answer:
*Safety is top priority
-Give a run down on the basics of what it is
-Tell them key points
-Allow them to ask questions and then go more into education

, Question:
6. Students can discuss the role of community influence on health in individuals and families
Answer:
*community can cause or contribute to an illness

Question:
7. Students can discuss the socioeconomic factors that influence chronic disease in pediatric clients
Answer:
-Heath insurance coverages
-Transportation
-Financial stressors
-Family coping
-Schools response to the child with a chronic illness

Question:
8. Students can identify children at risk of developmental delays
Answer:
*Single parent *Parent has mental illness
-Child with a birth weight less the 1500g

Question:
9. Students can discuss how to determine if children are meeting developmental and growth milestones
Answer:
Risk assessment
-Includes objective and subjective data to determine the likelihood that the child will develop a condition
Universal screening
-Screening of an entire population regardless of the child's individual risk
Selective screening
-Done when a risk assessment indicates the child has one or more risk factors for a disorder

Question:
10. Students can discuss the format of hearing testing for older children
Answer:
-Assessment based of parental concerns
-Pure-Tone Audiometry:
-The child wears headphones and listens for sounds through a speaker. They respond by pressing a button
or raising a hand when they hear the tones.
-Speech Audiometry:
-The child listens to spoken words or sentences through headphones and repeats them or identifies them
from a list. *Do hearing assessment by one month of age

Question:
11. Students can discuss the format of assessing vision on children at different age groups
Answer:
*When done by a young age such as 6 months they use black and white because they can only see in black
in white
-If they cant read yet do test with the images