pediatric assessment

Question 1

what dose TICLS stand for

Answer 1

Tone
Interactive
Consolability
look (gaze)
Speech (or cry)

Question 2

considerations for tone

Answer 2

Are they unusually floppy, like a ragdoll, unable to hold themselves upright? By six months of age, nearly all children should be able to sit up and support their own heads.

Question 3

considerations for interactiveness

Answer 3

To a newborn child, the world is an amazing place, full of strange sights and sounds and smells. Babies have learnt to smile by about two months of age, and by a year or so, they are following objects around the room with their gaze. If they do not appear to be interested in what is going on in the world around them, then it is time to be a little more concerned.

Question 4

considerations for Consolability

Answer 4

Children cry – all of the time. They cry because you want to brush their hair, they cry because you don’t want to brush their hair, and they cry because you have looked at them. But they are also consolable. If they can’t be consoled, despite the best efforts of their mother, then something is amiss.

Question 5

considerations with cry

Answer 5

Crying, generally, is good, especially if it is someone else’s child and not your own, as long as they are consolable (see above). But that high-pitched squealing cry means something different entirely.