Physical

Question 0

Normal weight gain during puberty

Answer 0

Girls gain 15 to 55 pounds and boys game 15 to 65 pounds

Question 1

Menstrual periods usually occur about 2 1/2 years after the onset of puberty

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Adolescent vital signs

Answer 2

Temperature 97.5 to 98.6, a perchlorate 55 to 90 bpm, respirations 12 to 20 breaths per minute, average blood pressure 121/70

Question 3

Important nutritions for adolescents

Answer 3

Calcium zinc iron folic acid and proteins are especially important

Question 4

Adolescents tend to snack on empty calories and the importance of adequate and healthy nutrition needs to be stressed

Answer 4

Body image is also very important for an adolescent

Question 5

Play

Answer 5

Games and athletics are the most common forms of play

Question 6

Competition and strict rules are important

Answer 6

Adolescents enjoy activities such as sports videos movies reading parties dancing hobbies computer games music communicating via the Internet and other social media platforms and experimenting such as with make up hairstyles tattoos and piercings

Question 7

Safety for adolescents

Answer 7

Adolescents are risk takers. Adolescents have a natural urge to expand the independent.

Question 8

Things to instruct your adolescent about

Answer 8

Instruct adolescents regarding the dangers related to drugs alcohol cigarettes caffeine sustaining and motor vehicles of any type.

Question 9

Advocate the use of seatbelts. Instruct adolescents regarding the consequences of injuries in motor vehicle crashes can cause.

Answer 9

Instruct adolescents regarding water safety. Emphasize that they should enter the water feet first, as opposed to diving, especially when the depth of water is unknown.

Question 10

Also and instruct adolescents about the dangers associated with guns, violence, and games

Answer 10

Instruct adolescents about the complications associated by a piercing tattooing and suntanning.

Question 11

Puberty/ adolescents heart and circulatory system

Answer 11

60 bpm, differs with gender. At Puberty heart takes part in rapid growth reaching which are sized with rest of body.

Question 12

Urinary system in adolescents

GF are decreases about 47% from age 20-90

Answer 12

Parallels growth as a whole. Proportion of Bodily water and solids follows pattern related to growth. Tendency for human organism to dry out as life progresses. Function of kidneys, with other organ systems, is to help and regulation of internal environment of body. Adolescents and puberty. Composition of urine in healthy child after Age 2 changes very well as child matures, thus renal function and urinalysis can be used as monitor of well-being.

Question 13

Adolescents/digestive system

Answer 13

Spurt of growth and puberty

Question 14

Adipose tissue/adolescents

Answer 14

Increase slowly to puberty. Fat begins to accumulate slowly and continues uninterrupted in girls, producing curves and accounts for much of weight gain.

Question 15

Adipose tissue/adolescent

Answer 15

Deposition of fat differs in body. amount decreases sharply at the time of maximum growth and spurt, increase weight caused by increase in muscle mass and bone

Question 16

Respiratory/adolescent

Answer 16

Breathing gradually slows throughout childhood until maturity is reached.
Respiratory exchange gradually becomes more efficient as life advances. Actual volume of air inhaled with each breath increases as lung size expands with general body growth. Vital capacity and maximum breathing capacity rise gradually in both genders, increasing more in boys during puberty.

Question 17

Skeletal system/adolescent

Answer 17

Reserved during growth spurt. Length of trunk and depth of chest reach peak growth.

Question 18

Muscle system/adolescents

Answer 18

With onset of puberty, muscle strength is greater in boys ( when muscle growth is stimulated by testosterone)
Greatest increase begins in puberty. Muscle size precedes muscle strength in boys

Question 19

Nervous system/adolescent

Answer 19

No nuero growth spurt at puberty. Brain size slowly increases Until adolescent reaches full maturity

Question 20

Integumentary system/Adolescents

Answer 20

Rapid spurt and maturation of skin and all it structures. Sebaceous glands increased rapidly at puberty, Acne

Question 21

Ericksons stages of human development/adolescent

Answer 21

Identity versus role confusion.
Developing a sense of identity/sense of personal identity is successful, confusion about who one is is unsuccessful.
If an adolescence identity is submerged in relationships or group memberships then this is unsuccessful

Question 22

Ericksons stages of human development for early adulthood

Intimacy versus isolation

Answer 22

Establishing intimate bonds of love and friendship is successful. Ability to love deeply and commit oneself. Unsuccessful is emotional isolation, egocentricity.

Question 23

Ericsson stages of development, middle adulthood. Generativity versus stagnation

Answer 23

Fulfilling life goals that involve family, career and society. Successful is the ability to give and care for others. Unsuccessful is self absorption, inability to grow as a person.

Question 24

Moral development/Lawrence Kohlberg

Answer 24

Complicated process involving the acceptance of the values and rules of society in a way that shapes behaviors. Moraldevelopment is classified into a series of levels and behaviors.

Question 25

Moral development and Lawrence Kohlberg/ level one preconventional morality
Adolescents

Answer 25

Stage 5 ( 12 years and older) Social contract and legalistic orientation. The adolescent is aware that people hold a variety of values and opinions and most values and rules are relative to the group. The adolescent in this stage gives as well as takes and does not expect to get something without paying for it.

Question 26

Moral development and Lawrence Kohlberg . Stage VI, universal ethical principles orientation.

Answer 26

Conformity is based on universal principles of justice and occurs to avoid self-condemnation.
This stage involves following self chosen ethical principles. The development of the postconventional level of morality occurs in the adolescent at about the age of 13 years. It is marked by the development of an individual conscience and a defined set of Moral values.
The adolescent can now acknowledge a conflict between two socially excepted standards and try to decide between them. The control of conduct is now internal, both in standards observed and in reasoning about right and wrong.

Question 27

The hospitalized adolescent

Answer 27

Separation anxiety, adolescents are not sure whether they want their parents with them when they’re hospitalized. 2. Separation from friends is a source of anxiety. 3. Adolescents become upset if friends go on with their life, excluding them.

Question 28

Hospitalized adolescent

Answer 28

Fear of injury and pain. Adolescents fear being different from others and their peers.
Adolescents may give the impression that they are not afraid although they are terrified. Adolescents become guarded when any areas related to sexual development are examined.

Question 29

Hospitalized adolescent

Answer 29

Loss of control.

Behaviors exhibited include anger, withdrawl, and uncooperative Ness. Adolescents seek help and then reject it.

Question 30

Hospitalized adolescent

Answer 30

Interventions.
Encourage questions about appearance and the effects of illness on the future.
Explore feelings about the hospital and significance that the illness might have with regard to relationships.
Encourage the adolescents to wear his or her own clothes and perform normal grooming activities.
Allow favorite foods to be brought into the hospital if possible
Provide privacy
Use body diagrams to prepare for procedures
Introduced to other adolescents in the nursing unit
Encourage the maintenance of contact with peer groups
Provide for educational needs
Identify the formation of future plans
Hope develop positive coping mechanisms

Question 31

Hospitalized adolescents/communication approaches

Answer 31

Remember that the adolescent may be preoccupied with body image. Encourage and support independence. Provide privacy. Use photographs, books, CDs, DVDs, videos, and Internet to explain procedures.
Engage in conversations about adolescence interest. Avoid becoming too abstract, to detail, and too technical. Avoid responding to less than desirable social behaviors by prying, confrontation, I judgmental attitudes .

Question 32

Physical changes of adolescent

Answer 32

For main focuses of the physical changes are; increased growth rate of skeleton, muscle and Viscera.

2. Sex specific changes such as changes in shoulder and hip width. 3. alteration in distribution of muscle and fat.
3. Development of the reproductive system and secondary sex characteristics

Question 33

Boys who mature early Are more poised, relaxed, good natured, skilled in athletic activities and likely to be school leaders than boys who mature late.

Answer 33

In contrast, girls mature early Are less satisfied with their figures by late adolescence. The reason for this is that early maturing girls tend to be shorter and somewhat heavier than late maturing girls, they tend to be taller and thinner

Question 34

Height and weight increase for boys

Answer 34

Approximately 4 to 12 inches and weight increases by 15 to 65 pounds

Question 35

Height and weight increase for girls

Answer 35

2 to 8 inches and weight increases 15 to 55 pounds

Question 36

Cognitive changes for adolescents

Answer 36

The adolescent develops the ability to determine and rank possibilities, solve problems, and make decisions through logical operations.
The teenager thinks abstractly and deals effectively with hypothetical problems. When confronted with a problem, the adolescent considers an infinite variety of causes and solutions.
For the first time the young person moves beyond the physical or concrete properties of the situation and uses reasoning powers to understand the abstract. School-aged individuals think about what is, where is adolescents are able to imagine what might be.

Question 37

Health risk for adolescent

Answer 37

Accidents remain the leading cause of death in adolescence. Motor vehicle accidents, which are the most common cause of death, resulted in 74% of all unintentional deaths among teens 10 to 19 years

Question 38

Adolescents/violence and homicide

Answer 38

Homicide is the second leading cause of death in the 15 to 24-year-old age group, and for African American teenagers it is the most likely cause of death

Question 39

Health risk/suicide

Answer 39

Suicide is the third leading cause of death in adolescence 13 to 19 years of age, and then recent study by the national Center for health statistics, one fifth of high school students indicated that they had contemplated suicide in the previous 12 months

Question 40

The following warning signs often occurred for at least a month before suicide is attempted

Answer 40

Decrease and school performance, withdraw, loss of initiative, loneliness, sadness and crying, appetite and sleep disturbances, verbalization of suicidal thoughts

Question 41

Eating disorder/adolescent

Answer 41

Adolescent overweight and obesity our current concerns in the US. And most teens try dieting at sometime to control weight. Unfortunately the number of eating disorders is on the rise and adolescent girls.

Question 42

Health promotion/health education for adolescents

Answer 42

Community and school-based health programs for adolescents focus on health promotion and illness prevention. Nurses need to be sensitive to the emotional cues from adolescence before initiating health teaching to know when teen is ready to discuss concerns.
In addition, discussions with adolescents need to be private and confidential. Adolescents define health in much the same way as adults and look for opportunities to reach their physical, mental, and emotional potential.

Question 43

Minority adolescence, by the next century estimates predict that minorities as a group will become the majority

Answer 43

Nurses are able to make a significant contribution to improving access to appropriate healthcare for adolescents. With knowledge about various cultures and the means to care for minority adolescence, the nurse acts as an advocate to ensure accessibility of appropriate services.