peds test 2 Flashcards
- The nurse is preparing to administer ear drops to a 6-year-old. To ensure that the medication is instilled properly, the nurse does which of the following?
D. Pulls the Pinna up and back
- A 3 month old is diagnosed with tetralogy of Fallot. When you walk into the room you assess that the baby’s color is extremely cyanotic. His respiratory rate is also increased. Which of the following action would you do first?
Place the baby in a knee chest position
- The nurse caring for infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) relies on the use of behavioral and physiological indicators for determining pain. Which of the following examples are behavioral indicators? (Select all answers that apply.)
A. The infant grimaces.
B. The infant flails his arms and legs.
C. The infant is crying uncontrollably.
- When the nurse is assessing a child’s pain, which of the following is most important?
Using the same tool to assess the child’s pain each time
- The nurse is caring for neonate who is suspected of having sepsis. Which of the following assessment findings would the nurse interpret as most indicative of sepsis?
Hypothermia
- Which of the following would lead the nurse to suspect that a child is beginning to develop increased intracranial pressure?
Vomiting possibly Projectile
- In teaching parents about risk factors for acute otitis media the nurse understands that further teaching is necessary when one of the parents states that a risk factor for otitis media is:
Being an only child.
- The parents of a boy diagnosed with Hirschsprung disease are anxious and fearful of the upcoming surgery. The mother states, “I’m worried about having to care for our son’s ostomy.” Which intervention would be most helpful for the parents?
Having a wound, ostomy, and continence nurse meet with them
- The nurse is examining an 8-year-old boy with tachycardia and tachypnea. The nurse anticipates which of the following as most helpful in determining the extent of the child’s hypoxia?
Pulse oximetry
- A child is brought to the emergency department by his parents because he suddenly developed a barking cough. Further assessment leads the nurse to suspect that he child is experiencing croup. Which of the following would the nurse have most likely assessed?
Inspiratory Stridor
11.After teaching a class about hemodynamic characteristics of congenital heart disease, the instructor determines that he teaching has been successful when the class identifies which defect as an example of a disorder involving increased pulmonary blood flow?
Atrial septal defect
- A group of nursing students are reviewing information about the variations in respiratory anatomy and physiology in children in comparison to adults. The students demonstrate understanding of the information when they identify which of the following?
Children develop hypoxemia more rapidly than adults do
- When conducting a physical examination of a child with suspected Kawasaki disease, which of the following would the nurse expect to assess?
Strawberry tongue
- The patient with suspected rheumatic fever, is admitted to the pediatric unit. When obtaining the child’s history, the nurse considers which information to be most important?
A recent episode of pharyngitis
- An 18-month old child presents with a significant clubbing of the fingers. Which of the following best describes the cause of this condition?
Clubbing implies chronic hypoxia due to severe congenital heart disease
- Within the first weeks of life this particular shunt typically closes, failure to close causes a connection between the aorta and pulmonary artery.
Patent ductus arteriosus
- Which of the following statements represent what happens to circulatory system as the infant transitions from intra-uterine to extra-uterine life?
The lungs inflate, reducing pulmonary vascular resistance to blood flow
- The fetus derives its oxygen from which of the following structure from conception to birth?
Placenta
- While assessing a newborn with cleft lip, the nurse would be alert that which of the following will most likely be compromised?
Sucking ability