Which type of seizure comes without warning and includes a sudden, brief lapse of consciousness (10-15 sec) and is described as having staring or daydreaming episodes?
What is absence (Petit Mal)
100
A child who has meningitis should be monitored for what two complications
What is diabetes insipidus and syndrome of inappropriate secretion of ADH (SIADH)
100
What diagnostic test should be used to detect the presence of strep in the blood?
What is ASO titer
100
Cystic fibrosis is an autosomal-recessive disorder. What is the risk of having a child that is a carrier?
What is 50%.
100
A child who has a logan's bow in place should avoid which position.
What is prone position
200
What is the therapeutic level of phenytoin?
What is 10-20 ug/ml
200
Name two types of hydrocephalus
What is communicating (nonobstructive) and noncommunicating (obstructive) hydrocephalus
200
Where is the edema in patients who have nephrotic syndrome?
What is generalized edema, ascities, and labal/scrotal edema
200
What is the earliest clinical manifestation that is seen in newborns?
What is meconium ileus
200
What is the ESSR method used for cleft palate?
What is enlarge, stimulate, swallow, and rest.
300
Which type of seizure has no impairment of consciousness, lasts less than 30 seconds, has no postictal state, and may or may not have an aura.
What is simple partial
300
Name two early clinical manifestations of hydrocephalus in infants
What are are abnormally rapid head growth, bulging fontanels, dilated scalp veins, and macewen sign
300
Which condition has an elevated BUN/Creatinine?
What is AGN
300
What vitamins does a child with cystic fibrosis have trouble absorbing?
What is A, D, E, and K
300
Name two facial features of down syndrome children
What are brachycephaly, separated sagital sutures, oblique palprebral fissures, protruding tongue, small short ears, and small nose with depressed nasal bridge.
400
What is the primary initial focus of nursing care for a patient during the treatment of status epilepticus?
What is ABC
400
Name two positive assessment findings besides testing for nuchal rigidity that can be used to assess for meningitis in children over the age of 2.
What is kernig sign and Brudzinski sign
400
What diet should a child be on who is experiencing AGN?
What is low sodium, restricted K during oliguria, and restrict protein if BUN > 75
400
Using a sweat test, what is the chloride concentration that is diagnostic of cystic fibrosis.
What is greater than 60
400
What test is used to screen for PKU?
What is guthrie blood test
500
What drug is used in the treatment of myoclonic seizures?
What is Klonopin (Clonzaepam)
500
How long should a patient be on antibiotics for the treatment of bacterial meningitis?
What is 7 to 10 days
500
What three conditions are specific to nephrotic syndrome?
What is hyperalbuminuria, hypoalbuminemia, and hyperlipidemia.
500
Which drug used to treat cystic fibrosis decreases viscosity of mucus by acting like scissors cutting up DNA from bacteria in mucus?
What is Dornase alfa
500
What drug is used in the treatment of PKU that controls phenylalanine levels?