Test Bank for Advanced Practice Nursing: Essentials for Role Development. 5th Edition. By Lucille A. Joel. 2025||All Chapters Covered|| Latest Edition|| ISBN-

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,Advanced Practice Nursing: Doing What Has to Be Done-Radicals, Renegades,
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1. The nurse manager of a pediatric clinic could confirm that the new nurse recognized
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the purposeof the HEADSS Adolescent Risk Profile when the new nurse responds that it
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b is used to assess for needs related to
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a. anticipatoryguidance. b




b. low-risk adolescents. b




c. physicaldevelopment. b




d. sexualdevelopment. b




ANS: A b




TheHEADSS Adolescent Risk Profile isapsychosocialassessment screening tool
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b which assesseshome, education, activities, drugs, sex, and suicide for the purpose of
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b identifying high-risk adolescents and the need for anticipatory guidance. It is used to
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b identify high-risk, not low-risk, adolescents. Physical development is assessed with
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anthropometric data. Sexual development is assessed using physical examination.
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REF: 6 OBJ: NCLEXClient NeedsCategory: HealthPromotionand Maintenance
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2. The nurse preparing a teaching plan for a preschooler knows that, according to
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b Piaget, theexpected stage of development for a preschooler is
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, a. concrete operational.
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b. formaloperational.
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c. preoperational.

d. sensorimotor.



ANS: C b




The expected stage of development for a preschooler (3 to 4 years old) is
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b preoperational. Concreteoperational describes the thinking ofa school-age child (7 to
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b 11 years old). Formal operational
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, describes the thinking ofan individual after about 11 years ofage. Sensorimotor describes
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b theearliest pattern of thinking from birth to 2 years old.
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REF: 5 OBJ: NCLEXClient NeedsCategory: HealthPromotionand Maintenance
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3. The schoolnurse talking with a high school class about the difference
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b between growth anddevelopment would best describe growth as
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a. processes bywhich earlycells specialize. b b b b b




b. psychosocialandcognitive changes. b b b




c. qualitativechangesassociatedwithaging. b b b b




d. quantitative changes in size or weight. b b b b b




ANS: D b




Growth is aquantitative change in which an increase in cell number and size results in an
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increasein overall size or weight of the body or any of its parts. The processes by which
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b early cells specialize are referred to asdifferentiation. Psychosocial and cognitive
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b changes are referred to as development. Qualitative changes associated with aging are
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b referred to as maturation. b b b




REF: 2 OBJ: NCLEX Client NeedsCategory: HealthPromotionand Maintenance
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4. The most appropriate response ofthe nurse when a mother asks what the Denver II does
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a. candiagnose developmental disabilities.
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