The school nurse is conducting health screenings on schoolchildren. During the screening, she identifies a child with the behavioral characteristics of attention deficit disorder. Which of the following behaviors is consistent with this disorder?
- A. slow speech development
- B. overreaction to stimuli from the surroundings
- C. inability to carry on a conversation
- D. concrete thinking
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Children with attention deficit disorder are easily distracted but are able to carry on a conversation. Concrete thinking is more indicative of age, and slow speech development has more to do with other learning disabilities.
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A mother brings her 1-year-old child to the clinic. The child has no record of previous immunizations, and the mother confirms the child has not been immunized. Teaching by the nurse should include which of the following?
- A. Immunizations may be started at any age.
- B. The recommended immunization schedule must be followed exactly.
- C. If a primary series of immunizations is interrupted, the series must be restarted.
- D. This child is at increased risk for reaction to the vaccines, when they are started.
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: While a recommended immunization schedule exists, immunizations may be started at any age. An interrupted series may be continued and need not be restarted. There is no increased risk for reaction to vaccines due to delay.
A client asks the nurse what risk factors increase the chances of getting skin cancer. The risk factors include all except:
- A. Light or fair complexion
- B. Exposure to sun for great periods of time
- C. Certain diet and foods
- D. History of bad sunburns
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Diet and foods are not established risk factors for skin cancer, unlike fair complexion, sun exposure, and history of sunburns.
Which of the following motions is identified with the corresponding action? (Action: Turning palm of hand over to face in the anterior direction, dorsum of the hand is pointed downward toward the floor.)
- A. Pronation
- B. Supination
- C. Abduction
- D. Adduction
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Supination is described as 'Holding a bowl of soup in your hand,' which matches the action of turning the palm to face anteriorly.
Which of the following substances need to be assessed when completing a family health assessment?
- A. coffee, tea, cola, and cocoa
- B. alcohol, tobacco, and illegal substances
- C. medicines prescribed by a physician
- D. all of the above
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: When assessing drug, alcohol, and tobacco practices among family members, a thorough investigation of prescribed, over-the-counter, and illegal substance-use practices should be made.
A complication of total parenteral nutrition (TPN) is the development of cholestasis. What is this condition?
- A. An inflammatory process of the extrahepatic bile ducts
- B. An arrest of the normal flow of bile
- C. An inflammation of the gallbladder
- D. The formation of gallstones
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Cholestasis from TPN is an intrahepatic interruption of bile flow, unlike cholangitis (duct inflammation), cholecystitis (gallbladder inflammation), or gallstone formation.