Nutrition
Peanut, milk, egg, and tree nuts.
Foods commonly associated with allergic reactions in preschoolers
A teenager has a family history of Type 2 diabetes mellitus. He asks the nurse what he can do to try to prevent developing it himself.
Tell him to be active, eat a balanced diet, and maintain normal weight.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is assessed during this developmental stage.
What is the preschooler?
True or False. Low birth weight is associated with teen pregnancies.
True
Appropriate outdoor play for preschoolers should include the following activities.
What is playing on the outdoor preschool equipment, encouraging running/jumping, practicing new skills, or demonstrating new mastered skills?
Eat a well-balanced diet that includes plenty of whole grains, fruits, and vegetables.
What should a nurse recommend to ensure children receive all important nutrients?
The best response to the adolescent who reports he sleeps about 6 hours per night during the week but is able to sleep 9 to 10 hours on the weekend.
What is "Let's talk about ways to increase the amount of rest you get during the week."?
Treatments might include an alarm and waking schedules to prevent this problem at night.
What is nighttime enuresis?
Over 50% of school-age children suffer from this.
What are dental caries?
Promoting healthy sleep habits for the school-age child should include.
What is coming up with a sleep schedule including the child?
Television commercials, fast food, the high cost of healthy food, and food insecurity.
What factors influence a school-age child’s nutrition?
Keep these small objects from preschoolers.
What are matches?
This is the common cause of death among adolescents.
What are unintentional injuries?
Obesity leads to all kinds of problems in children. The list will include the following.
What is more likely to suffer bone fractures, joint and muscle pain, type 2 diabetes, bullying, decrease in self-esteem, and depression.
Industry vs. inferiority
What is the Erikson development stage for the school-age child?
African American children are at greatest risk for what nutritional deficiency?
What is iron-deficiency anemia?
Teaching safety about this will decrease deaths in school-age children.
What is motor vehicle safety including pedestrian safety and wearing seat belts?
Symptoms or warning signs of this disorder include a relentless pursuit of thinness, self-starving with significant weight loss, lack of menstruation (in females) and decreased sexual interests (in males), compulsive physical activity, preoccupation with food, portioning food carefully, eating only small amounts of only certain foods.
What is anorexia nervosa?
This learning disability includes inattention, impulsiveness, and hyperactivity.
What is ADHD?
This is common among adolescents and should be focused on primary prevention for injuries.
What is risk-taking and its consequences?
An adolescent girl who plays competitively in sports may be at risk for?
What is calcium deficiency?
Promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors.
What recommendation will have the greatest impact on obese children?
Based on the study by Lumeng and colleagues, children who do not get adequate sleep tend to be less active, which promotes overweight/obesity. This puts children at risk for what disorder.
What is type 2 diabetes?
Breast buds in females before 14 years of age and thinning of the scrotal sac and enlargement of the testicles in males before 13 years of age indicate this stage of adolescence.
What is puberty?
The Piaget stage, where there is an intolerance of things as they are. Where the child can conceptualize things as they might or could be, rather than how they are, and can think of elaborate means for achieving these changes—now.
What is Piaget’s stage of formal operations?