Newborns
This acronym is an important part of a newborn initial assessment.
What is an APGAR score?
This term is used to describe an extended period of crying that may begin around the second month of an infant's life.
What is the Period of Purple Crying?
School-age children require this many hours of sleep per night.
What is 8-10 hours?
This is the average range of an adolescent's heart rate.
What is 60-100?
This condition, usually seen in infants and toddlers, occurs when temperatures rise quickly.
What is a febrile seizure?
A full-term newborn should produce this many wet diapers per day by 5 days old.
What is 6-8 wet diapers?
The DPTP vaccine offers protection from these childhood diseases.
What is Diptheria, Pertussis, Tetanus and Polio?
This phase of Piaget's cognitive development is characterized by increasing development of language and symbolic functioning, egocentrism and animism and artificialism (pretend).
What is the pre-operational phase?
This process is a sign that an adolescent's reproductive organs are becoming functional.
What is puberty?
This is the preferred treatment for diarrhea.
What is rehydration with oral fluid replacement?
These are the white, benign, pimple-like spots that can appear on the face of the newborn.
What are milia?
This type of food should be the first introduced after 6 months of age.
What is an iron-rich food?
Organic causes of enuresis include this.
What is (any one of):
• Urinary tract infection
• Diabetes mellitus
• Diabetes insipidus
• Seizures
• Obstructive uropathy
• Abnormalities of
urinary tract
• Sleep disorders
This group's importance increases during adolescence.
What is a peer or friend group?
Hospitalization of a young child can result in this phenomenon.
What is separation reaction?
This is one sign of hypoglycemia in the newborn.
What is (any one of the following):
• Jitteriness
• Poor muscle tone
• Sweating
• Respiratory difficulty
• Low temperature
• Poor suck
• High-pitched cry
• Lethargy
• Seizure
A newborn that weighs 3.2 kg at birth would weigh this much at 1 year?
What is 9.6 kg?
School-aged children should have a minimum of this many hours of exercise per day.
What is 1 hour?
The CRAFFT screening tool assesses an adolescent's use of what substances?
What are drugs and alcohol?
This type of care should be a nursing focus when caring for an ill child.
What is family-centred care?
This is one example of teaching parents of newborns how to prevent Suddent Infant Death Syndrome?
What is (any one of the following):
Sleep in supine position
• Avoid exposure to tobacco smoke, before and after birth
• Sleep in a safe crib, cradle, or bassinet
• Avoid pillows, stuffed animals, bumper pads, and blankets
• Avoid overheating
• Should sleep in room with parent for 6 months. Avoid bed
sharing
• Breastfeeding / Use of pacifiers
2 word sentences are an expected milestone for what age group according to the Nippissing Developmental Screening Tool.
What is a 2 year old?
School-aged children should have a maximum of this many hours of screen time per day?
What is 2 hours?
This is the legal test to determine if adolescents have the right to make their own medical decisions.
What is understand and appreciate the consequences of the medical decision.
A toddler's armband is missing when the nurse is to administer a medication. This is the best course of action for the nurse to take.
What is confirming the toddler's name and date of birth with the parent at the bedside?