Infant & Toddler Growth & Development
By 5 to 6 months, an infant's birth weight should double. By this age, the birth weight should triple.
What is 12 months (1 year)?
Adolescent
What is Identity vs. Role Confusion?
A non-pharmacological positioning technique where a parent holds a child securely upright on their lap during a procedure instead of pinning them flat on a bed.
What is a Therapeutic Hug (or Comfort Hold)?
Weight at this percentile is considered obese.
What is >95th percentile?
MMR, Varicella, IPV, DTaP
What are the recommended 4-year-old vaccines?
This cranial structure usually closes between 12 and 18 months of age.
What is the Anterior Fontanelle?
Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt
What is the Toddler development stage?
This type of care is based on the understanding that the family is the constant in the child's life and the primary source of strength.
What is Family-Centered Care?
Weight >85th percentile.
What is overweight?
This kind of immunity comes from vaccines.
What is active immunty?
Ensure the crib is free from bumper pads, back to sleep, and using a firm mattress should be included in this.
What is Safe Sleep education?
Trust vs. Mistrust
What is the Infant developmental stage?
The primary overarching goal of atraumatic care is to "first, do no harm," specifically minimizing these two types of distress in pediatric patients.
What is Psychological and Physical Distress?
This safety device is critical when infusing pediatric medications.
What is a Buretrol?
Passive immunty
What is immunity passed from a mother to her infant by colostrum?
A newborn can lose this amount of weight in the first 48 hours after birth.
What is 8-10%?
School-Age
What is Industry vs. Inferiority?
The term for care planning that respects and incorporates a family's cultural beliefs, traditions, and health practices into the plan of care.
What is Culturally Competent (or Culturally Sensitive) Care?
Possible adverse effects of Gentamicin.
What is/are ototoxicity and/or nephrotoxicity?
Rotavirus, DTaP, Hib, PCV, and IPV.
What are recommended 4-month-old vaccines?
The nurse should perform this part of the physical assessment first when examining a quiet 9-month-old.
What is auscultate heart and lungs?
Initiative vs. Guilt
What is the Preschooler developmental stage?
The child-friendly term a nurse should use when describing a blood pressure cuff to a 4-year-old child to prevent fear of body injury.
What is an "arm hug"?
This location is appropriate to give an injection to a 12-month-old infant.
What is vastus lateralis?
Temperature >100.5, severe GI symptoms, history of previous allergic reaction, and immunocompromise.
What are vaccine contraindications?