NP230 Exam 2 Questions with Verified Solutions
You are teaching a parent how to reduce a fever, what should you tell them?✔✔Give Tylenol
Increase fluids
Keep room cool
Call the provider if the temp is > 105
Gavage feeding, after checking the pH of the aspirated stomach contents, what should you
do?✔✔Return the contents
80mg/kg/day, divided does every 12 hours, child weights 30lbs, how many mg should the nurse
administer per dose?✔✔.2 = 13.6
13.6 x 80 = 1,088
1,088mg / 2 = 544 mg/ dose
IV for an infant, the larger the number the smaller the diameter, what size would be
appropriate?✔✔24-25
Post tonsillectomy, what don't you let them drink✔✔Dairy products
OJ
Lemonade
They can have ice chips and/or popsicles
What do you do if your child has croup?✔✔Humification and outdoors if its cold
Child with asthma, what do you give them?✔✔Albuterol (SABA)
, Patient presents with crackles, cyanosis, temp of 105, respiratory distress, and tachycardia, what
do you suspect they have?✔✔Pneumonia
What do you give to a premature baby with ductus arteriosus?✔✔Indomethacin
To promote the closure
A child with HF, how do you treat it?✔✔Lasix
Weights
I&O
Elevate HOB (30-45)
What labs to monitor= Electrolytes and Potassium
Iron education✔✔Give with OJ
In Leukemia, what do you expect to see in the labs?✔✔WBC goes UP
Everything else goes DOWN
Child with type 1 diabetes, what prescription would you question?✔✔Oral hypoglycemics
THEY NEED INSULIN
Both eyes cannot look at the same object✔✔Strabismus
Meningitis precautions✔✔Droplet: mask, gown, goggles, gloves
Cerebral Palsy✔✔Cannot be cured
You are teaching a parent how to reduce a fever, what should you tell them?✔✔Give Tylenol
Increase fluids
Keep room cool
Call the provider if the temp is > 105
Gavage feeding, after checking the pH of the aspirated stomach contents, what should you
do?✔✔Return the contents
80mg/kg/day, divided does every 12 hours, child weights 30lbs, how many mg should the nurse
administer per dose?✔✔.2 = 13.6
13.6 x 80 = 1,088
1,088mg / 2 = 544 mg/ dose
IV for an infant, the larger the number the smaller the diameter, what size would be
appropriate?✔✔24-25
Post tonsillectomy, what don't you let them drink✔✔Dairy products
OJ
Lemonade
They can have ice chips and/or popsicles
What do you do if your child has croup?✔✔Humification and outdoors if its cold
Child with asthma, what do you give them?✔✔Albuterol (SABA)
, Patient presents with crackles, cyanosis, temp of 105, respiratory distress, and tachycardia, what
do you suspect they have?✔✔Pneumonia
What do you give to a premature baby with ductus arteriosus?✔✔Indomethacin
To promote the closure
A child with HF, how do you treat it?✔✔Lasix
Weights
I&O
Elevate HOB (30-45)
What labs to monitor= Electrolytes and Potassium
Iron education✔✔Give with OJ
In Leukemia, what do you expect to see in the labs?✔✔WBC goes UP
Everything else goes DOWN
Child with type 1 diabetes, what prescription would you question?✔✔Oral hypoglycemics
THEY NEED INSULIN
Both eyes cannot look at the same object✔✔Strabismus
Meningitis precautions✔✔Droplet: mask, gown, goggles, gloves
Cerebral Palsy✔✔Cannot be cured
