Growth and Development
This fontanel closes at 18 months of age.
What is the anterior fontanelle?
A child with this respiratory infection must be placed in droplet isolation immediately.
What is RSV or Bacterial Meningitis?
What is 50ml/kg orally over 4 hours and then 150-250ml for each additional stool?
Before administering this medication, you must check if the child's heart rate is greater than 70 or 90 beats per minute in infants.
What is digoxin?
Social and communication problems characterize this diagnosis.
What is autism?
By this age infants are able to hold their bottles, grasp their feet, and feed themselves crackers.
What is 6-months old?
This asthma medication should be used as needed for wheezing or coughing.
What is albuterol?
This child with this disease process experiences overall body swelling, ascites, frothy urine, elevated serum lipids, and hypoalbuminemia, and is taught to rest, take steroids, and avoid crowds.
What is nephrotic syndrome?
What is Sickle Cell Crisis?
When the child's neck is flexed, they have involuntary flexion of the hips and knees, and they complain of neck and back pain.
What is Brudzinski's sign?
This is the best order to complete a physical assessment on a preschooler.
What is head to toe?
A child with this diagnosis should be taught to take oral enzymes with meals, avoid crowds, and complete chest physiotherapy daily.
What is cystic fibrosis?
A child experiencing this disease process should be monitored for fluid overload, administered antihypertensives, and diuretics.
What is AGN?
This is what a child with diabetes should do before a sports activity.
What is eat a snack?
This child experiences headaches, double vision, and increased sleepiness.
What is increased ICP?
This will promote Erikson's stage of development in a hospitalized school-age child.
What is allowing them to complete a task such as drawing up and administering their own insulin?
When this child wakes up in the night with a cough you should take them out in the cold air to help reduce symptoms.
What is LTB?
Following this surgery, teaching should include avoiding ride-on toys and hip carrying. Adolescents should also be taught the importance of testicular self-exams.
What is cryptorchidism?
This is what a child with type 1 diabetes should do during a sick day.
What is frequently checked blood glucose, continue to administer insulin, check urine for ketones, and contact the provider if one can not eat?
These are symptoms the child should report to the healthcare provider while on a stimulant.
At this age, the child is able to stand alone, places a cube into a cup, and says three to five words.
This disease process is an emergency with signs of dysphonia, drooling, and tripod positioning.
What is epiglottitis?
A child with this acute problem can eat baked chicken and steamed vegetables as long as they are eating safely.
These are things you would do to decrease a child's cardiac workload.
What is allowed to rest, decrease anxiety, treat illness, and monitor temperature?
Children should avoid Aspirin-containing products to prevent this disease.
What is Reye's Syndrome?