Respiratory System
This thin, watery nasal discharge is commonly called a runny nose and associated with the common cold.
Rhinorrhea
True
Growth Plate
The average school-age child grows how many inches per year?
2 inches
Describe Patient and Family Centered Care
An approach to the planning, delivery, and evaluation of healthcare that is grounded in mutually beneficial partnerships among health care providers, patients, and families.
List three signs of respiratory distress in infants
Answers vary: nasal flaring, retractions, grunting, tachypnea, cyanosis/change in skin coloring, audible wheezing, head bobbing, abdominal breathing, tachycardia, respiratory acidosis, alterations in perfusion
This disease is an acute, systemic vasculitis occurring mostly in infants and young children.
Kawasaki's Disease
Name at least 5 of the P's that you check on a fractured limb.
Pain, Pallor, Pulselessness, Parasthesia, Paralysis, and Pressure.
This type of thinking is common in preschool-age children; it occurs when one believes that one's own thoughts, wishes, or desires can influence the external world.
Magical Thinking
At what age can you begin to use the radial pulse to palpate a child's HR?
> 2 years old (so 3 and up)
Bronchiolitis (RSV)
Coarctation of the aorta
The most common form of treatment for talipes is what?
Serial Casting
Why do we measure head circumference in children?
It is often the first sign of increasing cranial contents and pressure.
How often should a child take their non-stimulant medications for ADHD. Examples include Strattera and Intuniv.
Every day
This test is the gold standard to officially diagnose cystic fibrosis
The quantitative sweat chloride test.
Rheumatic fever only develops in children and adolescents following what type of infection?
Group A beta-hemolytic stretococcal (GABHS) pharyngitis.
Two signs of Developmental Dysplasia of the hip include
Postive Barlow Test, Postive Ortolani Test, unequal gluteal folds, shortened limb on affected side, Walking with Trendelenberg sign, restricted movement of the hip.
The first sign of pubertal changes in boys is what?
Testicular enlargement
When educating parents, nurses should recommend that the caregiver introduces which type of food first?
Pureed fruit, Fruit juice, iron-fortified infant cereal, or pureed vegetables?
List three symptoms of Epiglottitis
Acute onset, dysphagia/drooling, no cough, hoarse voice/unable to talk, sore throat, insp. stridor, agitation, high fever tripod postion
Tetralogy of Fallot is a congenital heart defect that refers to the a combination of these four heart defects occurring together.
VSD, Overriding aorta pulmonary stenosis, & right ventricular hypertrophy.
What is Gower's sign? And what condition does it commonly manifest in?
This medical sign indicates weakness of the proximal muscle weakness, and occurs when a child uses their hand/arms to "walk" up their own body from a squatting position.
Approximately 2 months old
This bacterial infection of the skin around a child's mouth and nose is highly contagious and leads to blisters and yellow crusts.