Nurs 373 Midterm Questions With Verified Accurate Answers

NURS 373 MIDTERM QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ACCURATE ANSWERS

What is family-centred care? - Answers -- Recognizing the family as the unit care
- Family is defined by the childbearing person
- Family includes those people who are significant to the childbearing person
- The relationship between the childbearing person, the family, and the perinatal nurse
is based on mutual respect and trust

Do nurses have an ethical an moral obligation to involve families in their health-care
practices? - Answers -Yes

What is the age range for a neonate? - Answers -Birth to 27/28 days

What is the age range for an infant? - Answers -0-12 months

What is the age range for a toddler? - Answers -1-3 years

What is the age range for a child in preschool? - Answers -3-6 years

What is the age range for a school age child? - Answers -6-11 years

What is the age range for an adolescent? - Answers -11-18 years

What is normal development of an infant? - Answers -- Nurturance meeting basic
needs
- Sense of trust-dependability
- Oral phase-importance of sucking
- Environment-strangers, safety are big concerns
- Major stressors-separation

What is normal growth development of an infant? - Answers -- Length increases by
50%
- Weight doubles by 6 months and tripes by 1 year
- Anterior and posterior fontanelles
- Eruption of teeth around 8 months
- Average age of walking is 15 months

What is normal development in a toddler? - Answers -- Motor skills develop faster than
intellectual
- Sense of autonomy
- Must have mastery of self & environment
- Separation from mother
- Anal stage-seeking control, ritualistic, tantrums

,- Major stressors-separation, fear of bodily harm, and alteration in routine
- Age of "no"

What is normal growth development in a toddler? - Answers -- Growth rate slows 2nd
year of life (mostly in legs)
- Limited food intake
- Growth spurts-steplike on growth curve
- By age 2: half of adult height
- Head circumference = chest circumference
- Birth weight quadrupled (avg. weight 27 lbs)
- By 33 months: all deciduous teeth erupted and child has about 20 teeth in total

What is normal development in a preschool-aged child? - Answers -- Increasing
independence-imaginative, curious, energetic learning
- Sense of initiative-developing self image (male/female)
- Learning through imitation
- Socializes with peers
- Major stressors-fear of bodily harm, loss of control, heightened imagination leads to
increased anxiety
- "Why" phase
- Likes to play with friends (parallel play - side by side but not together)

What is normal growth development in a preschool-aged child? - Answers -- Slow and
steady (long bones of arms and legs)
- Gain 3-5 lbs per year
- Grow about 2.5 to 3 inches per year
- Deciduous teeth development complete
- 6 years-starts to lose teeth and get secondary teeth

What is normal development in childhood? - Answers -- Development of logical thinking
- Interest outside of family
- Sense of industry-challenges, achievement
- Major stressors-loss of control, bodily injury, pain separation
- Honesty becomes quite important
- Privacy is also important
- Move into logical thinking (knowing why we are doing things, without an explanation)
- Brain has nearly completed development by 7 years

What is normal growth development in childhood? - Answers -- Slow and smooth (girls
faster)
- 2 inches per year in height
- 6 lbs per year in weight
- By 7 years brain nearly completed its growth
- Development of small muscle and eye-hand coordination increases
- Pubertal growth
- Loss of teeth

, What is normal development of an adolescent? - Answers -- Independence
- Physical and sexual maturity
- Major stressors-loss of control, threats to independence

What is normal growth development in an adolescent? - Answers -- Weight doubles
and height increases 15-20%
- Major organs double in size (except lymphoid tissue, which decreases)
- Boys gain strength and muscle mass
- Pituitary gland stimulated at puberty to produce androgen steroids responsible for
secondary sex characteristics

What are the developmental milestones (motor skill, language, and adaptive behaviour)
for 4-6 week old infants? - Answers -MOTOR SKILL: Head lifted from prone position
and turned from side to side
LANGUAGE: Cries
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR: Smiles

What are the developmental milestones (motor skill, language, and adaptive behaviour)
for a 4 month old? - Answers -MOTOR SKILL: No head lag when pulled to sitting from
supine position. Tries to grasp large objects
LANGUAGE: Sounds of pleasure
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR: Smiles, laughs aloud, and shows pleasure to familiar objects
or persons

What are the developmental milestones (motor skill, language, and adaptive behaviour)
for a 5 month old? - Answers -MOTOR SKILL: Voluntary grasp with both hands. Plays
with toes
LANGUAGE: Primitive sounds: "ah goo"
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR: Smiles at self in mirror

What are the developmental milestones (motor skill, language, and adaptive behaviour)
for a 8 month old? - Answers -MOTOR SKILL: Sits without support. Transfers object
from hand to hand. Rolls supine to prone
LANGUAGE: Combines syllables: "baba, dada, mama"
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR: Responds to "no"

What are the developmental milestones (motor skill, language, and adaptive behaviour)
for a 10 month old? - Answers -MOTOR SKILL: Sit well, creeping, stands holding,
finger-thumb opposition in picking up small objects
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR: Waves "bye-bye", plays "patty-cake" and "peek-a-boo"

What are the developmental milestones (motor skill, language, and adaptive behaviour)
for a 12 month old? - Answers -MOTOR SKILL: Stands holding, walks with support
LANGUAGE: Says 2 or 3 words with meaning
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR: Understands names of objects. Shows interest in pictures