Peds Exam #
A 9-year-old girl is to receive amoxicillin/clavulanate. Which statement by the nurse is
most likely to elicit cooperation from the child?
1. You can play after you take your medicine.
2. Would you like to take this medicine with juice?
3. This medicine tastes good.
4. Amoxicillin is an antibiotic which will help you get well. - ANS 4. Amoxicillin is an
antibiotic which will help you get well.
Rationale: Discussion of facts is correct with school-age children. Medication should not
be described as food or candy. Associating medication with food may cause the child to
develop an aversion to that specific food.
\A mother brings her 7-year-old daughter to the clinic after several nights of bedwetting.
The mother explains that her daughter never wet the bed until her baby brother was born.
The nurse explains that this situation is considered the use of which ego defense
mechanism?
1. Dissociation
2. Projection
3. Regression
4. Repression - ANS 3. Regression
Rationale: Regression is the reversion to an earlier stage of development that may have
felt like a less demanding or safer time, or a time they received care and attention. This is
common in children when exposed to new stressors, such as a new sibling.
\A nurse is leading a class about immunizations? Which statement by the student is
correct?
1. Vaccinations do decrease hospitalizations.
2. Pneumococcal vaccine prevents all complications from lung disease.
3. Pneumococcal and influenza vaccine can be given together.
4. Influenza vaccine is contraindicated if the patient is allergic to eggs. - ANS 3.
Pneumococcal and influenza vaccine can be given together.
Rationale: Vaccines can be given simultaneously at different sites. The influenza vaccine
can be given to persons with an allergy to eggs. Vaccines may decrease complications
but it will not prevent complications. Immunizations decrease the rate of hospitalizations.
\A nurse is performing a developmental age assessment on a 10-month-old. Which will
the nurse document as consistent with the infant's age?
1. Infant discriminates between pictures of objects.
2. Infant stands without support.
3. Infant builds a tower of 3 cubes.
4. Infant eats with fingers. - ANS 4. Infant eats with fingers
A 9-year-old girl is to receive amoxicillin/clavulanate. Which statement by the nurse is
most likely to elicit cooperation from the child?
1. You can play after you take your medicine.
2. Would you like to take this medicine with juice?
3. This medicine tastes good.
4. Amoxicillin is an antibiotic which will help you get well. - ANS 4. Amoxicillin is an
antibiotic which will help you get well.
Rationale: Discussion of facts is correct with school-age children. Medication should not
be described as food or candy. Associating medication with food may cause the child to
develop an aversion to that specific food.
\A mother brings her 7-year-old daughter to the clinic after several nights of bedwetting.
The mother explains that her daughter never wet the bed until her baby brother was born.
The nurse explains that this situation is considered the use of which ego defense
mechanism?
1. Dissociation
2. Projection
3. Regression
4. Repression - ANS 3. Regression
Rationale: Regression is the reversion to an earlier stage of development that may have
felt like a less demanding or safer time, or a time they received care and attention. This is
common in children when exposed to new stressors, such as a new sibling.
\A nurse is leading a class about immunizations? Which statement by the student is
correct?
1. Vaccinations do decrease hospitalizations.
2. Pneumococcal vaccine prevents all complications from lung disease.
3. Pneumococcal and influenza vaccine can be given together.
4. Influenza vaccine is contraindicated if the patient is allergic to eggs. - ANS 3.
Pneumococcal and influenza vaccine can be given together.
Rationale: Vaccines can be given simultaneously at different sites. The influenza vaccine
can be given to persons with an allergy to eggs. Vaccines may decrease complications
but it will not prevent complications. Immunizations decrease the rate of hospitalizations.
\A nurse is performing a developmental age assessment on a 10-month-old. Which will
the nurse document as consistent with the infant's age?
1. Infant discriminates between pictures of objects.
2. Infant stands without support.
3. Infant builds a tower of 3 cubes.
4. Infant eats with fingers. - ANS 4. Infant eats with fingers
