Odds and Ends
This is essential in health promotion activities
What is identifying risks?
This should be observed when counting respirations in an infant, as a modified approach is used for assessing an adult.
What are abdominal movements?
This medication is included in the therapeutic management of iron deficiency anemia
Preferred site for IM injection in young children
What is the ventrogluteal muscle?
This is the average urinary output of a 1 year old child
What is 22 ml/hr?
This influences the severity of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS)
What is the gestational age at birth?
What is applying pressure to the lips or gums?
What is prolonged partial thromboplastin time (PTT)?
With regards to lumbar punctures in a young child, what are they allowed to do after the procedure since they do not get headaches
What is quiet play?
This is the max volume that can be administered in a single site in older children and small children
What is 1mL?
This action by the nurse is done to a child with laryngotracheobronchitis (LTB) who is fussy and restless in the oxygen tent.
What is increased the oxygen?
Parents as a nurse for anticipatory guidance when talking to school-aged children due to them being what
What is highly sensitive to criticism?
This sudden occurrence can happen in a child with acute epiglottitis
What is airway obstruction?
This is the most developed muscle that is an acceptable injection site due to not being located close to any major circulatory or nerve structures.
What is the vastus lateralis muscle?
This is a long-term complication of cleft lip and palate
What is faulty dentition?
In sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), this position is recommended for the child to sleep in
What is on their back (supine)?
This should be done before feeding a patient who requires gavage feedings
What is aspirating stomach contents?
This type of therapy is the center of treatment for a child diagnosed with cystic fibrosis
What is chest physiotherapy?
What is true with the relationship between opioids and respiratory depression in children vs adults?
What is opioids cause no greater respiratory depression than in adults?
These are the 2 injection sites that are used in children under 18 months of age
What are the vastus lateralis and ventrogluteal?
This is the main characteristic of cystic fibrosis
What is excessive, thick mucus?
When monitoring intake and output, parents often try to force fluids by waking them up to drink when they should be doing what
What is offering fluids in small amounts (i.e., fruit juices, or Pedialyte) at frequent intervals?
This is the best time to administer pancreatic enzyme replacements
What is before meals and snacks?
This method of calculating dosages in children is not used due to various ages and weights
What is unit doses?
What is ask the toddler to pick a toy to hold during administration? (This toy can also be used to show them how the medication will be given (IM, IV, etc.)
This should be used to prevent injury to the suture line of a child with a cleft palate
What is a cup?
This is recommended as a pediatric life support measure during CPR regarding the number of rescuers vs compressions
What is 1 Rescuer: 30 compressions/2 breaths - 2 Rescuers: 15 compressions/2 breaths?
This is observed in a patient with hypertrophic pyloric stenosis during a nurse assessment
What is an olive-shaped mass right of the midline?
This process of urine collection on newborns and infants causes minimal concern for contamination
What is suprapubic bladder aspiration?
This is a hallmark sign of intussusception
What are currant jelly-like stools?
This is a cause of Hirschsprung disease
What is the absence of parasympathetic ganglion cells in a portion of the colon?
This is the most difficult part of care to implement in a child with acute glomerulonephritis
What is bed rest?
This is the main patient problem selected by the nurse in a patient with nephrosis
What is skin integrity?
In a child with developmental hip dysplasia, this is the position the Pavlik harness holds the femur
What is abduction?
Purchasing clothes to disguise the brace in a teenager with this disease helps to decrease the teen's anxiety due to their skeletal deformity
What is scoliosis?
In a child with talipes the casts should be changed this often
What is weekly?
This sign is found in a child with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy due to their rising from the floor by walking up the thighs with the hands.
What is the Gower's sign?
A child should be expected to get out of isolation after this amount of time during an a course of antibiotics in meningitis
What is when the antibiotics have been initiated for 24 hours?
This intervention is implemented before surgery in a patient with a myelomeningocele
What is covering the lesion with a sterile, saline-soaked gauze?
This congenital malformation is expected in 80% of infants with a myelomeningocele
What is hydrocephalus?
This condition occurs when the level of lead ingested exceeds the amount that can be absorbed by the bone in a patient with lead poisoning
What is anemia?
Measuring head circumference is performed in this manner
What is measuring above the eyebrows and pinna of the ears and around the occipital prominence at the back of the skull?
These 3 things are classic signs of meningeal irritation
What is a positive Brudzinski sign, positive Kernig sign, and nuchal rigidity?
List 3 things that are true regarding metabolism in infants and young children
What is the metabolism rate is higher in newborns due to total body surface area, energy requirements are higher during the first 6 months of life, and recovery from surgery is quicker than in an adult?
The 4 reasons a pediatric nurse stresses health promotion activities
What is identify health risks, encourage healthy behavior, improve nutrition, and prevent accidents?
Name at least 3 things that have changed with implementing family-centered care with regards to hospitalization
What is access to medical charts, open visiting hours, no limitations on age or number of visitors, and parental and child choice regarding separation during procedures?
This combination of 4 congenital defects makes up Tetralogy of Fallot
What is pulmonary stenosis, ventricular septal defect, overriding aorta, and right ventricular hypertrophy?
This is the proper method to estimate the needle length for IM injections in the vastus lateralis
What is grasp the muscle between the thumb and index finger, and choose a needle length approximately half the distance between the thumb and index finger?
These 3 communication techniques can be helpful in dealing with a preschooler during an examination
What is avoiding broad smiles, avoiding extended eye contact, and sitting on the parent's lap?