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ETSU Accelerated BSN Program
EXAM 1: Pediatrics Practice
Questions and Answers With 100%
Complete Solutions
A nurse is conducting an admission interview with the mother
of a 2 year old child. What history question is most important
at this time?
a. How many children are in the family?
b. What is your child's normal routine?
c. Does your child attend daycare?
d. What toys are most important to your child? - ANSWER b.
What is your child's normal routine?
A 9 month old is sitting on his father's lap at the bedside. The
nurse needs to do a shift assessment. How should the nurse
proceed?
a. Ask the father to put the child in bed, and proceed with the
exam.
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b. Talk with the father for a few minutes, before examining
child.
c. Listen to the heart and lungs of the child.
d. Take the child from the father, and proceed with the exam. -
ANSWER b. Talk with the father for a few minutes, before
examining child.
Which nursing intervention best supports the concept of
atraumatic care for a hospitalized child?
a. Allowing parents to visit once every shift.
b. Encouraging six year old to be brave during an IV start.
c. Allowing adolescent to keep the hospital door shut.
d. Asking parents of baby to wait outside treatment room door
during spinal tap. - ANSWER c. Allowing adolescent to keep
the hospital door shut.
A six year old is in the recovery room following an
appendectomy. He is not yet fully awake, though he opens his
eyes when his name is called. Which pain assessment tool
would be most effective for the nurse to use at this time?
a. OUCHER assessment tool.
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b. Wong's FACES assessment tool.
c. FLAACC pain assessment tool.
d. 1-10 verbal assessment scale. - ANSWER c. FLAACC pain
assessment tool.
A nurse enters the room of an 8-year-old child newly admitted
and diagnosed with type I diabetes. His mother is sitting in a
chair at his bedside. What should the nurse do first?
a. Go the bedside and meet the child.
b. Stand by the door, and say "I am the assigned nurse today."
c. Go over to the mother and ask what brought the child into
the hospital today.
d. Explain the use of the call light to child. - ANSWER a. Go
the bedside and meet the child.
Which hospitalized child would the nurse be most worried
about as needing support or follow-up?
a. The 9-month-old that cries when the nurse walks in the
room.
b. The 2-year-old that holds still during an IV start.
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c. An adolescent that asks her father to leave the room during
an assessment.
d. A school-age child that angrily throws his food tray on the
floor. - ANSWER b. The 2-year-old that holds still during an
IV start.
What nursing intervention would be most appropriate for a 10-
year-old child with type I diabetes in order to meet their needs
(as described by Erikson).
a. Explain carefully to the mother the need to rigidly adhere to
dietary modifications.
b. Allow the child to eat whatever he or she wants and
administer insulin to maintain optimum glucose levels.
c. Allow the child to perform his or her own Accuchecks and
administration of insulin.
d. Perform Accuchecks four times a day and at bedtime. -
ANSWER c. Allow the child to perform his or her own
Accuchecks and administration of insulin.
A 16 year old female comes for a sport's physical in the clinic.
During the nursing history, the teenage states she is bothered
that she "towers over her companions and everyone is staring
at her at school." What would be the most therapeutic
response by the nurse?
ETSU Accelerated BSN Program
EXAM 1: Pediatrics Practice
Questions and Answers With 100%
Complete Solutions
A nurse is conducting an admission interview with the mother
of a 2 year old child. What history question is most important
at this time?
a. How many children are in the family?
b. What is your child's normal routine?
c. Does your child attend daycare?
d. What toys are most important to your child? - ANSWER b.
What is your child's normal routine?
A 9 month old is sitting on his father's lap at the bedside. The
nurse needs to do a shift assessment. How should the nurse
proceed?
a. Ask the father to put the child in bed, and proceed with the
exam.
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b. Talk with the father for a few minutes, before examining
child.
c. Listen to the heart and lungs of the child.
d. Take the child from the father, and proceed with the exam. -
ANSWER b. Talk with the father for a few minutes, before
examining child.
Which nursing intervention best supports the concept of
atraumatic care for a hospitalized child?
a. Allowing parents to visit once every shift.
b. Encouraging six year old to be brave during an IV start.
c. Allowing adolescent to keep the hospital door shut.
d. Asking parents of baby to wait outside treatment room door
during spinal tap. - ANSWER c. Allowing adolescent to keep
the hospital door shut.
A six year old is in the recovery room following an
appendectomy. He is not yet fully awake, though he opens his
eyes when his name is called. Which pain assessment tool
would be most effective for the nurse to use at this time?
a. OUCHER assessment tool.
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b. Wong's FACES assessment tool.
c. FLAACC pain assessment tool.
d. 1-10 verbal assessment scale. - ANSWER c. FLAACC pain
assessment tool.
A nurse enters the room of an 8-year-old child newly admitted
and diagnosed with type I diabetes. His mother is sitting in a
chair at his bedside. What should the nurse do first?
a. Go the bedside and meet the child.
b. Stand by the door, and say "I am the assigned nurse today."
c. Go over to the mother and ask what brought the child into
the hospital today.
d. Explain the use of the call light to child. - ANSWER a. Go
the bedside and meet the child.
Which hospitalized child would the nurse be most worried
about as needing support or follow-up?
a. The 9-month-old that cries when the nurse walks in the
room.
b. The 2-year-old that holds still during an IV start.
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c. An adolescent that asks her father to leave the room during
an assessment.
d. A school-age child that angrily throws his food tray on the
floor. - ANSWER b. The 2-year-old that holds still during an
IV start.
What nursing intervention would be most appropriate for a 10-
year-old child with type I diabetes in order to meet their needs
(as described by Erikson).
a. Explain carefully to the mother the need to rigidly adhere to
dietary modifications.
b. Allow the child to eat whatever he or she wants and
administer insulin to maintain optimum glucose levels.
c. Allow the child to perform his or her own Accuchecks and
administration of insulin.
d. Perform Accuchecks four times a day and at bedtime. -
ANSWER c. Allow the child to perform his or her own
Accuchecks and administration of insulin.
A 16 year old female comes for a sport's physical in the clinic.
During the nursing history, the teenage states she is bothered
that she "towers over her companions and everyone is staring
at her at school." What would be the most therapeutic
response by the nurse?
