Teen Scene
This cognitive milestone allows adolescents to think abstractly and solve hypothetical problems.
What is formal operational thinking?
Untreated strabismus may lead to this vision disorder.
What is amblyopia?
Improved oxygenation and calmer breathing indicate improvement in this disease
What is asthma?
This congenital defect may cause recurrent respiratory infections.
What is ASD?
This anemia may affect learning and school performance.
What iron deficiency anemia?
Projectile vomiting in an infant suggests this condition.
What is pyloric stenosis?
The most common cause of pediatric UTIs is this bacterium.
What is e-coli?
These spots inside the mouth are associated with measles.
What are koplic spots?
A nurse is teaching about preventing cervical cancer and educates that this vaccine should be recommended during adolescence.
What is the HPV vaccine?
This imaging test should NOT be performed if a child may have a metallic object in the eye.
What is an MRI?
Prolonged rupture of membranes places newborns at risk for this respiratory infection.
What is neonatal pneumonia?
Three classic signs of pediatric heart failure include tachypnea, poor weight gain, and these symptoms during feeding.
What is diaphoresis, fatigue?
This inherited disorder causes abnormal hemoglobin.
What sickle cell anemia?
This intestinal emergency is known as telescoping of the bowel.
What is intussusception?
This infant urine collection method provides the most accurate culture.
What is suprapubic aspiration?
This is the age when children receive their first MMR vaccine.
What is 12-15 months?
This disorder requires symptoms to occur in at least two settings for six months.
What is ADHD?
This childhood ear condition can cause balance problems and hearing loss.
What is otitis media?
This laboratory test confirms pertussis.
What is PCR?
The nurse is caring for a child with Tetralogy of Fallot. This assessment finding would require immediate intervention.
What is increased cyanosis?
Both hemophilia and von Willebrand disease increase the risk for this.
What is bleeding?
This dietary substance(s) often triggers IBS and should be avoided.
What is caffeine and artificial sweeteners?
This condition is considered a medical emergency because the foreskin cannot return over the glans.
What is paraphimosis?
A child presents with profuse watery diarrhea after drinking contaminated stream water while camping. The nurse should suspect this infectious organism.
What is giardia?
This developmental influence becomes one of the strongest during adolescence.
What are peer relationships?
A child with retinoblastoma may need this procedure if brain metastasis is suspected.
What is a lumbar puncture?
The is the best prevention for many acute respiratory infections.
What is immunizations?
These medications are recommended before dental work for some children with heart disease.
What is prophylactic antibiotics?
This disorder results from a deficiency of clotting factor VIII.
What is Hemophilia A?
Children with celiac disease require this lifelong diet.
What is celiac disease?
Children surviving Wilms tumor should avoid this activity.
What is contact sports?
A parent asks how juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) differs from adult SLE. The nurse should educate.
What is "Juvenile SLE is often more severe and may involve more organs than adult SLE"?
Name two risky behaviors commonly seen during adolescence.
This type of hearing loss occurs when sound cannot be transmitted efficiently through the outer or middle ear and is commonly associated with chronic otitis media.
What is conductive hearing loss?
Name some common foreign body aspiration hazards.
What are coins, peanuts, grapes, popcorn,batteries, toy parts?
A ventricular septal defect (VSD) is best described as an opening between these two chambers of the heart.
What are the right and left ventricles?
A child with sickle cell disease reports severe pain. This is the nurses priority intervention.
What is pain management, hydration and oxygenation?
A parent asks what an inguinal hernia is, the nurse should describe it as.
What is the protrusion of part of the intestine through a weak area in the abdominal wall?
A toddler is diagnosed with cystitis. The nurse should expect this symptom.
What is painful urination, burning with urination? (dysuria)
Besides medications, this is an important goal in caring for children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
What is maintain activity and social environment/interaction?
An adolescent tells the nurse, "I don't need to wear a seatbelt because I'm a good driver." Using Piaget's theory, name this developmental characteristic influencing this statement.
What is a sense of invisibility? (personal fable)
A parent asks why recurrent ear infections are affecting their child's speech development. The nurses response should be.
What is hearing loss from chronic otitis media can interfere with language development during early childhood?"
A child with asthma suddenly becomes quiet after severe wheezing, this can indicate.
What is worsening airway obstruction and decreased air movement?
A child with Tetralogy of Fallot suddenly becomes cyanotic while crying. The nurses first step is.
What is place the child in the knee-chest position?
A child with hemophilia falls while playing. This assessment finding should concern the nurse.
What is a severe headache or change in level of consciousness?
A child with suspected appendicitis suddenly reports that the abdominal pain has decreased, but now has a rigid abdomen and a fever. The nurse should suspect this complication.
What is peritonitis, with a ruptured appendix?
A child with chronic kidney disease is being assessed by the nurse. This finding should be reported to the healthcare provider immediately
What is a significant decrease in urine output?
A parent asks why immunizations are started so early in infancy. This is the nurse's best response.
What is infants have immature immune systems and need protection against serious infectious diseases as early as possible?