Age-Appropriate Activities
What toy is appropriate for a 5-month-old patient to play with?
What are rattles, soft stuffed toys, teething toys, and blocks.
What is the required action for a nurse who witnessed suspected abuse of a pediatric patient?
What are report facts and circumstances that lead them to suspect the child has been abused/neglected.
What substance should the nurse ask the pediatric patient and parents receiving the Hep B series about a history of a severe allergy before receiving a second dose of the vaccine?
What is a previous dose of Hep B vaccine or component.
What is an inflammation that causes the production of thick mucus that occludes bronchiole tubes and small bronchi?
What is Brochiolitis.
What instruction would a nurse give to a parent of a pediatric patient with mumps who is lethargic and vomiting?
What is to bring the child to the clinic to be seen by the pediatrician/PCP.
What can a 3-year-old patient be given to play with in the hospital?
What are stacking blocks, push-pull toys, thick crayons, finger paints, puppets, picture books, and filling/emptying containers.
What twist injury is commonly seen in pediatric patients that is indicative of suspected physical abuse?
What are spiral fractures.
What precautions should a pediatric patient with rubeola be placed on during hospital admission?
What are airborne precautions.
What respiratory illness occurs in young pediatric patients, primarily in the seasons of Fall, Winter, and Spring, that requires hospitalization and isolation precautions?
What is Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV).
What is the first action the RN educate the mother of a child who has frequent episodes of epistaxis to implement when the bleeding begins?
What is "have your child sit up and lean forward."
What is appropriate to give to a 5-year-old child in the waiting room at the clinic?
What are large-piece puzzles, a playing ball, pretend dress-up toys, sand box, and a riding tricycle.
What is a type of abuse for a 12-year-old patient seen with perineal tears and trauma, difficulty walking and sitting, is nonverbal, does not want the staff to touch her, and has new onset nocturnal enuresis?
What is signs of sexual abuse.
What are small blue-white spots with a red base on the buccal mucosa.
What is a chronic multisystem and autosomal recessive trait disorder characterized by exocrine gland dysfunction in pediatric patients?
What clinical presentations would suggest heart failure in a 1-year-old male patient with a congenital heart defect?
What are wet-sounding cough, skin cool and mottled, and sweating when walking.
What items can you give an 8-year-old patient to play with during their hospital admission?
What are simple board games, jump rope, collect stamps or cards, adventure books, bicycle, and organized sports items.
What form of trauma is an infant presenting in the E.D. with poor feeding, irritability, apnea, vomiting, retinal hemorrhaging, and seizures?
What are the signs of shaken baby syndrome.
What should a clinic nurse instruct the parent of a child with HIV regarding immunizations?
What is the inactivated influenza vaccine that will be given annually.
What is the high-risk condition for newborns and infants that can be caused by prone position, thermal stress, co-sleeping, soft bedding, and exposure to secondhand smoking?
What is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
What specific congenital heart defect would alert an RN of a neonate patient developing severe cyanosis, hypoxia, and metabolic acidosis?
What is the transposition of the great arteries.
What materials are available to a bored teen patient while they are admitted?
What are nonviolent video games, sports items, age-appropriate reading material, and social event items.
What is a teen patient presenting who arrives in the E.D. hold for demanding behavior, combative, extreme aggression, and delay in physical development?
What are the signs of emotional abuse.
What condition in children presents with irritability, anorexia, severe cough, and has an incubation average period of 7-10 days?
What is Pertussis/Whooping Cough.
What is the emergent condition of a child who is unresponsive to repeated courses of beta-agonist therapy that can result in respiratory failure and death if not immediately treated?
What is Status Asthmaticus.
What lab result would indicate iron-deficiency anemia in a pediatric patient?
What is red blood cells that are microcytic and hypochromic.