ATI PEDS PROCTORED EXAM 2019 REVISION GUIDE(Updated 2022)

ATI PEDS PROCTORED EXAM 2019 REVISION GUIDE 1. A nurse is assessing language development in all the infants presenting at the doctor's office for well-child visits. At which age range would the nurse expect a child to verbalize the words "dada" and "mama"? 2. During the toddler stage, ages 2-3 years, a child will gain approximately how many pounds per year? 3. Development that proceeds from the inside out is called by which of the following terms? 4. Routine physical examinations on children include height, weight, vital signs, physical examination, vision and hearing screening, diet assessment, screening for alcohol and other drug use, and screening for which of the following? 5. A mother tells you that her 4-year-old child has begun to have night waking and has started thumb sucking again. Otherwise the child seems very healthy. From this brief history, your immediate response is: 6. Using your knowledge of the Freudian stages of psychosexual development when caring for a child between the ages of 1 and 3 years, it would be most important for you to ask the caregivers about: 7. To look into the ear of a child younger than 3 years old, the nurse would position the ear by pulling the auricle: 8. The very first sucking by an infant occurs because of: 9. Piaget believed that interactions with the environment caused people to organize patterns of thought called: 10. Which of the following statements best describes object permanence? 11. A mother asks which developmental milestones she can expect when her baby is 6 months old. Which response by the nurse is the most appropriate? 12. While assessing the development of a 9-month-old infant, the nurse asks the mother if the child actively looks for toys when they are placed out of sight. Which developmental task is the nurse assessing this infant for? 13. When working with school-aged children, the nurse should keep in mind that these children will increase their weight by how many pounds per year 14. The nurse working on the pediatric unit checks the apical pulse of a school-aged child and finds a rate of 95 beats per minute while the child is lying in bed. The best action on the part of the nurse is to: 15. A nurse has instructed the parents of an infant to introduce solid foods one at a time, while carefully observing for signs of food allergies. Which of the following signs and symptoms may be suggestive of food allergies? Select all that apply. 16. According to Piaget, the concrete operations stage occurs in which of the following age ranges? 17. Cephalocaudal development proceeds in which direction? 18. The nurse would expect to find which of the following resting respiratory rates in the normal newborn? 19. According to Erikson’s psychosocial theory of development, a child between ages 6 and 12 is going through which of the following stages? 20. In order to help an infant accomplish the basic task of infancy (according to Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development), caregivers must consistently do which of the following things? 21. The nurse is assessing an infant client during a health supervision visit. Which assessment findings are considered normal variations for this client? Select all that apply. 22. Which of these developmental milestones should the nurse expect to find in children who are between 2 and 3 years old? Select all that apply 23. According to Erikson, the psychosocial development of an infant is centered around the concept of: 24. The nurse is assessing a toddler of 18 months to see what skills the child has for dressing himself. The nurse expects to find that a toddler of this age can do which of the following tasks? 25. When an infant is hospitalized, the nurse recognizes the importance of this infant mastering the first of Erikson’s eight life stages. He or she would most help the infant by instructing the caregivers: 26. Two 3-year-olds are playing in a hospital playroom together. One is working on a puzzle while the other is stacking blocks. Which type of play are these children exhibiting? 27. To assess the pinna position of the ears of a child, the nurse would draw an imaginary line from the outer canthus to the top of the ear. If the nurse finds that the ears are below the imaginary line, this means that: 28. If a baby is weaned too soon from formula or breast milk to cows milk, which of the following problems is most likely to develop? 29. According to Freud, toddlers are in which stage of development? 30. Which of the following methods of taking the temperature of a child is considered to be most accurate? The rooting reflex of an infant disappears at approximately how many months of age? 32. Toddlers age 1-2 years have which of the following visual acuities? 33. The most rapid growth period in a person’s life is during which of the following periods? 34. Which of the following best describes the term parallel play? 35. The nurse will perform all invasive or uncomfortable procedures such as ear inspection at what point during the physical examination? 36. The nurse notices a baby in the waiting room. The baby is sitting on the mother’s lap and picking up small cereal rings out of a bowl with a true pincer grasp and eating them unassisted. The nurse knows that this baby is at least how many months old? 37. From birth to 1 year of age, the infant is in which of the following stages, according to Freudian theory? 38. During the newborn examination, the nurse assesses the infant for signs of developmental dysplasia of the hip. A finding that would strongly indicate this disorder would be: 39. While teaching parents of a newborn about normal growth and development, which statement is most appropriate for the nurse to include in the session? 40. When obtaining a child’s past health history, the nurse would ask questions aimed at getting pertinent information, beginning with the: 41. Based on a recommendation from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the nurse will advise the caregivers to do which of the following to help prevent sudden infant death syndrome? 42. The neonatal or newborn period of life is defined as the first: 43. Freud developed the theory that the source of psychic energy that drives human behavior is: 44. Freud theorized that during the phallic stage, a child’s energy is focused on which of the following areas of the body? 45. The nurse would instruct the mother of a baby under 28 days of age to contact the health care provider if the baby’s rectal temperature is at which of the following readings or higher? 46. Which of the following best describes the ego, according to Freudian theory? 47. When you are the nurse taking the health history of a child, the historian is most likely going to be an adult. Which of the following questions would be the most important to ask before admitting or treating the child? 48. The nurse takes the temperature of a newborn and gets a reading of 37.7 degrees C (99.6 degrees F). The nurse interprets this temperature as: 49. Head circumference is no longer measured in children when the child reaches which of the following age ranges? 50. According to child psychoanalyst Erik Erikson, newborns develop basic trust when: 1. The school nurse is working with teenaged parents and their babies in a high school program designed to keep these parents in school and to teach them how to care for their children. The nurse teaches the mothers to change diapers on: