Pediatrics Unit 3

Which statement be a parent leads the nurse to determine the parent is giving levothyroxine (synthroid) correctly?

What classic sign would the nurse expect to find with child having an asthma attack?

Which statement by an adolescent with hypoglycemia leads the nurse to determine the patient understood the instructions?

A child is frequently swallowing after a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy (T&A) could indicate

A child sent to the school nurse because she comes to school everyday disheveled, unbathed, and hungry

When auscultation breath sounds of an infant respiratory syncytial virus, which would the nurse report?

The nurse is teaching parents of a child with iron deficiency anemia about nutrition. What food would the nurse suggest?

What statement does the mother say about her child’s sprained ankle indicates need for ADDITIONAL teaching?

Which observation causes a nurse to consider the possibility of child abuse?

Although the child with type 1 diabetes had insulin at 7:30 AM, they complain of hunger, thirst, and drowsy at 10:30 AM

What occurs as a result of inadequate secretion of insulin?

What instruction would the nurse provide for an adolescent fitted for a Milwaukee brace?

Which is the most appropriate nursing action related to the administration of digoxin (Lanoxin) to an infant?

How long will the nurse indicate therapy will probably last for osteomyelitis treatment?

What will the nurse administer with Ferrous sulfate drops when providing them to a child on pediatric unit?

A child develops carditis from rheumatic fever. Which areas of the heart are affected by carditis?

A father asks why his child with tetralogy of Fallot seems to favor a squatting position. What is the best response?

The nurse offers which drink to a 5 y/o asthmatic child to compensate for fluid loss through dyspnea?

A 2 y/o diagnosed w/hemophilia A should be sent home with what information in the teaching plan?

A child receives insulin at 8 am. At 8:45 AM the trays having yet to arrive from the kitchen.

Which comment made by a parent of a 1 m/o would alert the nurse about the presence of congenital heart defect?

An infant is hospitalized for RSV bronchiolitis. What’s the primary diagnosis?

What will the nurse include when caring for a child Buck’s extension?

What intervention will the nurse caring for a child in Buck’s skin traction implement?

After a closed head injury, the unconscious 10 y/o excretes copious amounts of pale urine and attended drop in BP

What characteristic manifestation does the nurse caring for a child with Duchenne’s muscular dystophy document?

The parent of a 1 y/o w/tetralogy of Fallot asks the nurse “why do my child’s fingertips look like that?”

A mother reports her 4 m/o infant is lethargic, sleeps 18 hrs/day, and snores. These are characteristics of-

What does the nurse explain that a ventricular septal defect will allow?

Which statement made by a parent indicates an understanding of health maintenance of a child with sickle cell disease?