Concept 01: Development Giddens: Concepts for Nursing Practice, 3rd E
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1. MULTIPLE CHOICE ANS: A
1. The nurse manager of The HEADSS Adolescent Risk Profile is a psychosocial assessment
a pediatric clinic could con- screening tool which assesses home, education, activities, drugs,
firm that the new nurse rec- sex, and suicide for the purpose of identifying high-risk ado-
ognized the purpose of the lescents and the need for anticipatory guidance. It is used to
HEADSS Adolescent Risk Pro- identify high-risk, not low-risk, adolescents. Physical development
file when the new nurse re- is assessed with anthropometric data. Sexual development is
sponds that it is used to as- assessed using physical examination
sess for needs related to
a. anticipatory guidance.
b. low-risk adolescents.
c. physical development.
d. sexual development.
2. 2. The nurse preparing a ANS: C
teaching plan for a preschool- The expected stage of development for a preschooler (3-4 years
er knows that, according to old) is pre-operational. Concrete operational describes the think-
Piaget, the expected stage of ing of a school-age child (7-11 years old). Formal operational
development for a preschool- describes the thinking of an individual after about 11 years of
er is age. Sensorimotor describes the earliest pattern of thinking from
a. concrete operational. birth to 2 years old.
b. formal operational.
c. preoperational.
d. sensorimotor.
3. 3. The school nurse talk- ANS D:
ing with a high school class Growth is a quantitative change in which an increase in cell
about the difference be- number and size results in an increase in overall size or weight
tween growth and develop- of the body or any of its parts. The processes by which early
ment would best describe cells specialize are referred to as differentiation. Psychosocial and
growth as
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1. MULTIPLE CHOICE ANS: A
1. The nurse manager of The HEADSS Adolescent Risk Profile is a psychosocial assessment
a pediatric clinic could con- screening tool which assesses home, education, activities, drugs,
firm that the new nurse rec- sex, and suicide for the purpose of identifying high-risk ado-
ognized the purpose of the lescents and the need for anticipatory guidance. It is used to
HEADSS Adolescent Risk Pro- identify high-risk, not low-risk, adolescents. Physical development
file when the new nurse re- is assessed with anthropometric data. Sexual development is
sponds that it is used to as- assessed using physical examination
sess for needs related to
a. anticipatory guidance.
b. low-risk adolescents.
c. physical development.
d. sexual development.
2. 2. The nurse preparing a ANS: C
teaching plan for a preschool- The expected stage of development for a preschooler (3-4 years
er knows that, according to old) is pre-operational. Concrete operational describes the think-
Piaget, the expected stage of ing of a school-age child (7-11 years old). Formal operational
development for a preschool- describes the thinking of an individual after about 11 years of
er is age. Sensorimotor describes the earliest pattern of thinking from
a. concrete operational. birth to 2 years old.
b. formal operational.
c. preoperational.
d. sensorimotor.
3. 3. The school nurse talk- ANS D:
ing with a high school class Growth is a quantitative change in which an increase in cell
about the difference be- number and size results in an increase in overall size or weight
tween growth and develop- of the body or any of its parts. The processes by which early
ment would best describe cells specialize are referred to as differentiation. Psychosocial and
growth as
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