INTRODUCTION TO MATERNITY AND PEDIATRIC NURSING 3RD EDITION BY SUSAN RICCI ALL CHAPTERS COMPLETE GUIDE | 2025 VERSION |GRADE A+

INTRODUCTION TO MATERNITY AND PEDIATRIC
NURSING 3RD EDITION BY SUSAN RICCI ALL CHAPTERS
COMPLETE GUIDE | 2025 VERSION |GRADE A+


QUESTION: What intervention is appropriate for a nurse assessing a preadolescent child for
scoliosis? ✓✓Correct Answer: Ask the child to bend forward at the waist and observe the child's
back for asymmetry.




QUESTION: The nurse is performing a neurovascular check on a limb in traction. Which findings
would be indicative of altered circulation? (Select all the apply.) ✓✓Correct Answer: -Limb is cool to
the touch

Capillary refill is 5 seconds




QUESTION: What characteristic manifestation would the nurse assessing a child with Duchenne's
Muscular Dystrophy document? ✓✓Correct Answer: Falls frequently and is clumsy




QUESTION: Which intervention would be helpful in relieving morning discomfort associated with
juvenile rheumatoid arthritis? ✓✓Correct Answer: Applying moist heat packs upon awakening




QUESTION: What would the nurse include in planning teaching to parents of a child with Legg-Calve-
Perthes disease about the long-term effects of this disease? ✓✓Correct Answer: Degenerative
arthritis may develop later in life.




QUESTION: What might the nurse explain as a common treatment for amblyopia? ✓✓Correct
Answer: Patching the good eye to force the brain to use the affected eye




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,QUESTION: What would the nurse instruct the parents of a child who takes dilantin? ✓✓Correct
Answer: Give meticulous oral hygiene.




QUESTION: What is an appropriate nursing action when a child is experiencing a generalized tonic-
clonic seizure? ✓✓Correct Answer: Move objects out of the child's immediate area.




QUESTION: The nurse is planning to teach parents about prevention of Reye's syndrome. What
information would the nurse include in this teaching? ✓✓Correct Answer: Aviod giving salicylate-
containing medications to a child who has viral symptoms.




QUESTION: What is the best way for the nurse to communicate with a 10-year-old child who has a
hearing impairment? ✓✓Correct Answer: Face the child and speak clearly in short sentences.




QUESTION: The nurse urges the mother of a 6-month-old child to get her child inoculated with
Haemophillus influenzae type B. What does this immunization protect against? ✓✓Correct Answer:
Bacterial meningitis




QUESTION: The nurse is caring for a preschooler with a head injury. Which assessment would lead
the nurse to report the probability of increasing intracranial pressure (ICP)? ✓✓Correct Answer:
Increase in blood pressure with a decrease in pulse




QUESTION: What will the nurse teach parents when giving instructions for acute conjunctivitis?
✓✓Correct Answer: Clear the drainage from the inner to the outer aspect of the eye.




QUESTION: Which assessments would cause the pediatric nurse to suspect the probability of an ear
infection in a 15-month-old child. (Select all that apply.) ✓✓Correct Answer: Pulling at ears

Irritability



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,Rolls head from side to side

Temperature of 39.4 C (103 F)




QUESTION: Which assessment finding in a child with meningitis should be reported immediately?
✓✓Correct Answer: Irregular respirations




QUESTION: What assessment made by the school nurse would lead to the suspicion of strabismus?
✓✓Correct Answer: Child covers one eye to read the chalkboard




QUESTION: What does the nurse explain to parents of a child who experienced a febrile seizure?
✓✓Correct Answer: They occur when the temperature rises quickly.




QUESTION: A child is brought to the emergency department after he fell and hit his head on the
ground. Which nursing assessment suggests the child has a concussion? ✓✓Correct Answer: Cannot
remember what happened to him




QUESTION: A parent reports that her child has begun to do poorly at school and experiences
episodes where he appears to be staring into space. Of which type of seizure is this behavior a
characteristic? ✓✓Correct Answer: Absence




QUESTION: Which situation would cause the nurse to suspect a hearing impairment? ✓✓Correct
Answer: 24-month-old toddler who communicates by pointing




QUESTION: What would the nurse include when planning postoperative teaching for a child who has
had a tympanostomy with insertion of tubes? ✓✓Correct Answer: Avoiding getting water in the ears




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, QUESTION: What is the best way to give an oral medication to an infant? ✓✓Correct Answer: Per a
small oral syringe




QUESTION: What is the best pulse location for the nurse to use when assessing the pulse rate on a
10-month-old infant? ✓✓Correct Answer: Apical




QUESTION: Gentamicin ear drops are prescribed for a 4-year-old child. How would the nurse
position the auricle when administering the ear drops? ✓✓Correct Answer: Up and back




QUESTION: A 9-year-old child is being prepared for lumbar puncture. What position will the nurse
explain to the child for this procedure? ✓✓Correct Answer: -"On your side with the knees bent and
the head close to the knees."




QUESTION: What factor affects the infant's physiological response to medications? ✓✓Correct
Answer: Immature liver function




QUESTION: The nurse preparing to administer medication to a 2-month-old infant discovers there is
no ID bracelet on the child. What should be the next action by the nurse? ✓✓Correct Answer:
Confirm the identity with the charge nurse, make a new bracelet, and give the medicine




QUESTION: Informed consent for a minor means that the parent or legal guardian understands what
aspect(s) of a procedure? (Select all that apply) ✓✓Correct Answer: -Purpose of the procedure

Risks associated with the procedure

That the document must be signed and witnessed

That information was given




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