Joel
TEST BANK
, Chapter 1: Advanced Practice Nursing: Doing What Has to Be Done-
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Radicals, Renegades, and Rebels
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1. The RN manager of a pediatric clinic could confirm that the new RN recognized the pur
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pose of the HEADSS Adolescent Risk Profile when the new RN responds that it is used t
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o assess for needs related to
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a. anticipatory guidance. H9
b. low-risk adolescents. H9
c. physical development. H9
d. sexual development. H9
CORRECT ANS: A H9 H9
Feedback: The HEADSS Adolescent Risk Profile is a psychosocial assessment screening tool
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which assesses home, education, activities, drugs, sex, and suicide for the purpose of identi
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risk adolescents and the need for anticipatory guidance. It is used to identify high-
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risk, not low-
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risk, adolescents. Physical development is assessed with anthropometric data. Sexual devel
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opment is assessed using physical examination.
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REF: 6 OBJ: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and Maintenance
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2. The RN preparing a teaching plan for a preschooler knows that, according to Pia
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get, the expected stage of development for a preschooler is
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a. concrete operational. H9
b. formal operational. H9
c. preoperational.
d. sensorimotor.
,CORRECT ANS: C
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Feedback: The expected stage of development for a preschooler (3 to 4 years old) is preop
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erational. Concrete operational describes the thinking of a school-
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age child (7 to 11 years old). Formal
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, describes the thinking of an individual after about 11 years of age. Sensorimotor describe
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s the earliest pattern of thinking from birth to 2 years old.
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REF: 5 OBJ: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and Maintenance
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3. The school RN talking with a high school class about the difference between grow
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th and development would best describe growth as
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a. processes by which early cells specialize. H9 H9 H9 H9 H9
b. psychosocial and cognitive changes. H9 H9 H9
c. qualitative changes associated with aging. H9 H9 H9 H9
d. quantitative changes in size or weight. H9 H9 H9 H9 H9
CORRECT ANS: D H9 H9
Feedback: Growth is a quantitative change in which an increase in cell number and size r
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esults in an increase in overall size or weight of the body or any of its parts. The process
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es by which early cells specialize are referred to asdifferentiation. Psychosocial and cognit
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ive changes are referred to as development. Qualitative changes associated with aging ar
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e referred to as maturation.
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REF: 2 OBJ: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and Maintenance
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4. The most appropriate response of the RN when a mother asks what the Denver II does is that
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a. can diagnose developmental disabilities.
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c. is a developmental screening tool.
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d. provides a framework for health teaching. H9 H9 H9 H9 H9
CORRECT ANS: C H9 H9
Feedback: The Denver II is the most commonly used measure of developmental status us
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