NSG 3600 Exam 3 Pediatric Nursing Galen College o
Nursing questions and answers (2025-2026 update)
acute diarrhea causes - ✔✔ANS - Rotavirus
- Diet/food
- Infection
- Medication - ANTIBIOTICS
- Toxic substances
What are you worried about with acute diarrhea? - ✔✔ANS - Dehydration( look at skin turgor)
- Electrolyte imbalance
Interventions for Acute Diarrhea - ✔✔ANS - Give Pedialyte
- IV fluids, NO FRUIT JUICE
- Electrolytes, START with bland, soft food
Prevention for Acute Diarrhea - ✔✔ANS - Handwashing
- Proper Food handling
Cleft lip and palate Meaning - ✔✔ANS - Facial malformation during embryonic development
- Native American/ Asian Male
,Cleft lip and palate risk factors - ✔✔ANS - Smoking
- Gestational Diabetes
- Use of certain meds
- Lack of folic acid prenatal
Cleft lip and palate interventions - ✔✔ANS - Haberman feeder
- Promote bonding between family
- Burp infants often
- No- Nos ( elbow restraints: take off every 1-2hrs)
- Apply petroleum jelly to operative site
- Feed with syringe/ dropper until surgical site is healed
Intussuspection - ✔✔ANS - Intestines folding into itself causing an obstruction normally at the ileocecal valv
Intussuspection Risk Factors - ✔✔ANS - Males less than 18 months
- Cystic Fibrosis
Intussuspection signs and symptoms - ✔✔ANS - Current jelly stool
-Sausage shaped mass in RUG
- pulling legs to chest
- Vomitting
Intussuspection Systom triad - ✔✔ANS - Stool with blood
- Screaming with drawing up legs
- Paroxysmal episodic abdominal pain with vomitting every 5-30 minutes.
Intussuspection Dx - ✔✔ANS - BARIUM ENEMA
- Abdominal ultrasound
, Intussuspection Intervention - ✔✔ANS - Monitor for signs of perforation, peritonitis and shock.
- coach and reeda stool and if patient passed stool alert pcp.
- If child has surgery: NPO, NGT, IV fluids
- Fever greater than 99.5 is very bad, alert PCP.
- Moniotor for infection
failure to thrive - ✔✔ANS a condition in which infants become malnourished and fail to grow or gain weigh
for no obvious medical reason
Failure to thrive symptoms - ✔✔ANS - weight < 5th percentile, length WNL
- decreased or lack of subcutaneous fat
- pale skin
- developmental delays
- Decreased albumin levels
appendicitis - ✔✔ANS inflammation of the appendix
appendictis s/s - ✔✔ANS - Periumbilical pain
- RLQ pain
Appendictis Interventions - ✔✔ANS - Monitor VS
- If Pain stops CALL THE PCP, IT COULD HAVE RUPTURED
-NPO 24hrs post op
- Monitor for peritonitis( stiff tender abdomen)
Hirschsprung disease - ✔✔ANS absent ganglion cells in submucosal/myenteric plexus rectosigmoid
meaning there's a blockage that stops peristalsis from occurring). - Common in Down syndrome kids
Hirschsprung Symptoms - ✔✔ANS - inability to pass stool meconium within the first 24-48 hours,
- visible reverse peristalsis,
Nursing questions and answers (2025-2026 update)
acute diarrhea causes - ✔✔ANS - Rotavirus
- Diet/food
- Infection
- Medication - ANTIBIOTICS
- Toxic substances
What are you worried about with acute diarrhea? - ✔✔ANS - Dehydration( look at skin turgor)
- Electrolyte imbalance
Interventions for Acute Diarrhea - ✔✔ANS - Give Pedialyte
- IV fluids, NO FRUIT JUICE
- Electrolytes, START with bland, soft food
Prevention for Acute Diarrhea - ✔✔ANS - Handwashing
- Proper Food handling
Cleft lip and palate Meaning - ✔✔ANS - Facial malformation during embryonic development
- Native American/ Asian Male
,Cleft lip and palate risk factors - ✔✔ANS - Smoking
- Gestational Diabetes
- Use of certain meds
- Lack of folic acid prenatal
Cleft lip and palate interventions - ✔✔ANS - Haberman feeder
- Promote bonding between family
- Burp infants often
- No- Nos ( elbow restraints: take off every 1-2hrs)
- Apply petroleum jelly to operative site
- Feed with syringe/ dropper until surgical site is healed
Intussuspection - ✔✔ANS - Intestines folding into itself causing an obstruction normally at the ileocecal valv
Intussuspection Risk Factors - ✔✔ANS - Males less than 18 months
- Cystic Fibrosis
Intussuspection signs and symptoms - ✔✔ANS - Current jelly stool
-Sausage shaped mass in RUG
- pulling legs to chest
- Vomitting
Intussuspection Systom triad - ✔✔ANS - Stool with blood
- Screaming with drawing up legs
- Paroxysmal episodic abdominal pain with vomitting every 5-30 minutes.
Intussuspection Dx - ✔✔ANS - BARIUM ENEMA
- Abdominal ultrasound
, Intussuspection Intervention - ✔✔ANS - Monitor for signs of perforation, peritonitis and shock.
- coach and reeda stool and if patient passed stool alert pcp.
- If child has surgery: NPO, NGT, IV fluids
- Fever greater than 99.5 is very bad, alert PCP.
- Moniotor for infection
failure to thrive - ✔✔ANS a condition in which infants become malnourished and fail to grow or gain weigh
for no obvious medical reason
Failure to thrive symptoms - ✔✔ANS - weight < 5th percentile, length WNL
- decreased or lack of subcutaneous fat
- pale skin
- developmental delays
- Decreased albumin levels
appendicitis - ✔✔ANS inflammation of the appendix
appendictis s/s - ✔✔ANS - Periumbilical pain
- RLQ pain
Appendictis Interventions - ✔✔ANS - Monitor VS
- If Pain stops CALL THE PCP, IT COULD HAVE RUPTURED
-NPO 24hrs post op
- Monitor for peritonitis( stiff tender abdomen)
Hirschsprung disease - ✔✔ANS absent ganglion cells in submucosal/myenteric plexus rectosigmoid
meaning there's a blockage that stops peristalsis from occurring). - Common in Down syndrome kids
Hirschsprung Symptoms - ✔✔ANS - inability to pass stool meconium within the first 24-48 hours,
- visible reverse peristalsis,
