Which of the following developmental milestones for a 6-month-old child should be screened by the nurse during a routine office visit?
- A. standing while holding something
- B. rolling over
- C. sitting up
- D. creeping
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Rolling over occurs between 4 and 6 months of age. Sitting up occurs between 7 and 8 months, creeping between 9 and 10 months, and standing between 8 and 10 months.
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What action should the nurse take?
- A. Reassure patient that pain is normal following surgery.
- B. Administer pm Nifedipine and assess client's response.
- C. Administer pm Meperidine HCL and assess client's response.
- D. Recheck BP and pulse rate every 20 minutes for the next hour.
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: A sinus tachycardia is a physiological response to pain. Treating the cause of the increased pulse rate requires pain medication.
A syringe pump is a type of electronic infusion pump used to infuse fluids or medications directly from a syringe. This device is commonly used for:
- A. solutions administered in obstetrics.
- B. dilute antibiotics.
- C. large volumes of IV solution.
- D. the neonatal and pediatric populations.
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Small volumes of medication or fluids are delivered and sometimes at slow rates to neonates and pediatric clients. The syringe pump allows precise infusion of small volumes. Choice 1 is incorrect because a syringe pump can be used in almost any setting, but is not generally for adult clients. Choices 2 and 3 are incorrect because large volumes of fluids are not administered with a syringe pump.
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.
Which of the following is one of the main goals for Healthy People 2010?
- A. reduction of health care costs
- B. elimination of health disparities
- C. investigation of substance abuse
- D. determination of an acceptable morbidity rate
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Healthy People 2010 has as its main goal elimination of health disparities among the U.S. population. Healthy People 2010 is a set of health objectives for the nation to achieve over the first decade of the twenty-first century and was developed by the Surgeon General's office. Earlier editions of this report, Healthy People and Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives established national health objectives and served as the basis for the development of state and community plans.
Which of the following infant behaviors demonstrates the concept of object permanence?
- A. The infant cries when his mother leaves the room.
- B. The infant looks at the floor to find a toy that he was playing with and dropped.
- C. The infant picks up another toy after the one he was playing with rolls under the couch.
- D. The infant participates in a game of patty-cake.
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Object permanence occurs when the infant learns that something/someone still exists even though they might not be able to see it/them. This develops between 9 and 10 months of age. If the infant cries when his mother leaves the room, it might be because he believes she is no longer in the house when he can't see her. If an infant picks up another toy after the one he is playing with rolls under the couch and the infant fails to look for it, he believes the toy that rolled under the couch no longer exists. Patty-cake is a game infants engage in but, it has nothing to do with object permanence. An infant game that does show object permanence is peek-a-boo. In this game, an infant continues to hunt for a hidden face because he believes it is still there.