Heart & Blood
Cause of pain in sickle cell anemia
What is obstruction of blood flow?
Placing a child this way for sleep helps prevent SIDS
What is their back (supine)?
Children with cleft lip and palate have psychological difficulties due to these 2
What is impaired speech and faculty dentition?
Length of time a child can come off isolation in meningitis.
What is at least 24 hours after the start of antibiotic therapy?
Children with this phobia are "normal" children and this phobia is stress-related and not a psychiatric disorder
What is school avoidance?
Treatment of developmental dysplasia of the hip is to maintain the hip in this position for 4 to 6 months
What is abduction?
Children become infected with this immune system disease when being breast-fed
What is human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)?
Cyanotic during vigorous crying
What is Ventral Septal Defect (VSD)?
3 manifestations of Pneumonia in children
What is anorexia, cough, and lethargy? (also nasal discharge, wheeze or crackles, abdominal pain, chest pain, fever, headache, irritability, malaise, myalgia, respiratory distress)
This disease requires small, frequent feedings that have been thickened with infant cereal
What is gastroesophageal reflux?
The condition whose defining characteristic is an excess of fluid within the cranial vault, the subarachnoid space, or both is called this.
This is required if a child with ADHD has trouble learning
What is a calm area with decreased stimulation?
What is mineral oil?
Prompt treatment is critical in an infant with congenital hypothyroidism to avoid this
What is cognitive impairment?
Iron deficiency anemia develops after this amount of time
What is after 6 months?
Parents often experience what in the death of their child from SIDS
What is guilt and blame?
What is weigh the diapers?
Classic signs of Meningitis include these 3 things.
What is nuchal rigidity, positive Kernig sign, and positive Brudzinski sign?
Cause of this disease is unknown but risk factors can be genetic
What is depression?
What is weekly?
What is Nystatin?
Coarctation of the Aorta most common clinical manifestation
What is hypertension (increased pressure) in the upper extremities?
What is gestational age?
Meticulous skin care to prevent impairment of edematous skin and infections is involved with this disease
What is Nephrosis or Nephrotic Syndrome?
What is measuring the head circumference routinely?
This is the most common method of attempted suicide.
What is drug overdose?
Clinical manifestation of Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy includes this sign where the child "walks up" the thighs
What is Gower's sign?
Lead poisoning can cause this when the level of lead exceeds the amount that the bone can absorb.
What is anemia?
Management of iron deficiency anemia includes what
Respiratory disease that occurs in preterm infants due to a surfactant deficiency
What is Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS)?
Currant jelly stools is a hallmark sign of this disease
What is Intussusception?
This is the most important nursing intervention in a child with Cerebral Palsy.
What is encourage mobilization?
This is the most important question to ask to a child with depression
What is "Have you ever had thoughts about suicide?"
Parents can do this to assist adolescents with scoliosis in "fitting in" with their peers
What is purchase clothes to hide the cast?
Infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome require these things to be comfortable.
What is a nonstimulating environment, tightly swaddled, with a pacifier?
Abnormal laboratory finding in hemophilia
What is prolonged partial thromboplastin time (PTT)?
Acute epiglottis is considered a medical emergency due to what
What is total airway obstruction?
Postoperative protection in cleft lip and palate surgery includes protecting the integrity of the suture line by promoting optimal nutrition, by using this to provide liquid nourishment
What is a cup?
Preoperative intervention for a child with myelomeningocele includes this
What is covering the sac with sterile, saline-soaked gauze?
RAP manifestations include these 3 things
What is afebrile, occasional vomiting, and constipation?
Isotretinoin is used in Acne Vulgaris. This intervention is crucial since it is contraindicated in pregnant women.
What is the use of an effective contraceptive during treatment and for 1 month after treatment?
This time frame for nystatin use is recommended to parents, even though lesions may no longer be present.
What is the full 7-day course?
What is long-term chemotherapy?
In laryngotracheobronchitis (LTB), what do you do if a child is hypoxic and becomes restless
What is increase the oxygen?
This disease is caused by the absence of parasympathetic ganglion cells in a portion of the colon
What is Hirschsprung Disease?
This percentage of infants with a Myelomeningocele also has hydrocephalus.
What is 80%?
RAP is often related to this in the child or family members.
What is emotional factors?
For any dermatitis, these 3 interventions help prevent the spread of infection
What is clip the fingernails short, prevent scratching, and cover the hands with mitten, socks, or gloves?
The goal of treatment for a child with Down Syndrome includes this.
What is helping the child reach their highest potential by assessing their current developmental level and planning accordingly?
Involves pulmonary stenosis, VSD, right ventricular hypertrophy and an overriding aorta
What is Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF)?
Excessive thick mucus is seen in Cystic Fibrosis. These 3 things are involved in improving the child's pulmonary function
What is chest physiotherapy, breathing exercises, and inhalation treatment?
In Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis, palpation of the abdomen reveals this in a certain area
What is an olive-shaped mass to the right of the midline?
The results of CSF culture and sensitivity testing in meningitis shows these results.
What are elevated WBC count, elevated protein level, and decreased glucose level?
Recurrent Abdominal Pain (RAP) warrants consideration in children with episodes of abdominal pain for this amount of time.
What is at least 3 consecutive months?
Scoliosis manifests as these 3 signs and symptoms
What are unequal hip heights and shoulder heights, scapular and rib prominence, and a posterior rib hump?
Strabismus (cross-eyed) is at risk for this if left untreated.
What is amblyopia?
Priapism, blindness r/t retinopathy, CHF, and stasis ulcers in the lower extremities are chronic s/s of what disease
What is sickle cell anemia?
Medical management of Cystic Fibrosis includes nutritional therapies, such as pancreatic enzyme replacement are given when
What is before meals and snacks?
What is Acute Glomerulonephritis?
This intervention assists with decreased vomiting to preserve nutrition in a child with hydrocephalus.
What is not handling the child before, during, and after feedings?
Suicide is a culmination of these 3 factors.
What is depression, loss of a loved one or relationship, and social isolation?
Septic Arthritis includes these 4 causes
What are ear infections, bites (human, cat, dog, rat, or tick), infected wounds, and open fractures?
These are 4 classic signs of diabetes
What is glycosuria, polyuria, weight loss despite good appetite, and manifestations of metabolic acidosis with or without stupor or coma?
4 physiologic characteristics of CHD
What is increased pulmonary blood flow, decreased pulmonary blood flow, obstruction to systemic blood flow, and mixed blood flow?
3 most common factors of Bronchial Asthma
Diagnostic testing in Nephrotic Syndrome includes these 3 specific results
What is elevated proteinuria, decreased serum protein levels, and elevated serum lipid levels?
Hydrocephalus is caused by these 3 things
What is increased production of CSF, by obstruction within the ventricular system, or by defective reabsorption of the CSF?
Clinical manifestations of autism include these 5 things
What are repetitive behavior, inability to maintain eye contact, avoidance of body contact, delayed social development, and speech and language delays?
Care of a child in a cast involves this (give at least 3)
What is the neurovascular assessment of the 5 P's (pain, pallor, parasthesia, pulselessness, puffiness), monitor for redness/tenderness, wash skin daily, smooth cast edges, teach brace/cast maintenance, assess for excessive tightness, and stimulate circulation with gentle massage?
Management for parasitic infections includes these 4 interventions
What is the treatment of family members, hydroxyzine or diphenhydramine for pruritus, cleaning clothes in hot water, vacuuming carpets, and automobile interiors, discarding toys, soaking combs and brushes in hot water, and educating parents?