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What is the most important nutritional need for wound healing?
Protein
What kind of diet should a patient with glomerulonephritis be on?
Renal diet!
Low protein
How often should a patient diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes be checking their blood sugar levels?
4 times a day- meals and at bedtime
An infant has red excoriated skin in their skin folds of their perianal area. What is the name of what is occurring and how would you educate parents to correct?
Diaper rash
Start with more frequent diaper changes
How would the nurse instruct a patient to administer their Somatropin (growth hormone replacement)?
Subcutaneous injection
What time would you educate parents on as the best time to apply topical mediations for their child?
After a bath
Absorbs better into the skin
What are the instructions to give a parent to treat their child's scabies?
Permethrin 5% lotion, wash car, clothes, bed sheets and stuffed animals (if washable) in hot water & hot dryer heat. If not washable for stuffed animals place in trash bags & in garage for two weeks. Everyone in household is treated.
Does an infant who is diagnosed with cryptorchidism need immediate surgery?
No
What is a common cause of a prolonged diaper rash?
Fungal infection
How would you instruct a child who is diagnosed with a kidney stone to collect their stone?
Strain the urine for the stone, drink plenty of water
What are the educational points a nurse should provide to a parent who is treating their child who has pediculosis capitis?
Permethrin shampoo, brush through hair with fine tooth comb or use tweezers, wash clothes, bed sheets and stuffed animals (if washable) in hot water & hot dryer heat. If not washable for stuffed animals place in trash bags & in garage for two weeks.
Should children with hemophilia take NSAIDs?
No salicylates can increase bleeding
Airborne
A mother of an infant is concerned as the infant is choking on their feeding and has increased saliva that looks like frothy. What Gastrointestinal disorder would the nurse suspect is occurring?
Tracheoesophageal fistula
Keep the child hydrated. Hydration is key
A mother brings in their 6 week old infant for concerns of projectile vomiting right after feeding. What Gastrointestinal disorder would the nurse suspect is occurring?
Pyloric Stenosis or GERD
What is the name for the rebound tenderness test for ruling out appendicitis?
McBurney's Point
What are signs/symptoms of anorexia nervosa?
Amenorrhea, Hypotension, Bradycardia, BMI less than 18.5, Lanugo, Constipation
Why for an infant diagnosed with hypospadias do we delay circumcision?
They may use the foreskin in the revision surgery
How would the LPN place the diaper on an infant with exstrophy of the bladder?
Underneath the patient with nothing on top
What does it mean when an infant is diagnosed with imperforate anus?
The infant does not have an anal opening
A parent of a child with Hirschsprung's asks if the colostomy their child has will be permanent, how should the nurse respond?
The ostomy bag may be temporary depends on whether the colon nerves cells (agangolic) become active
What kind of sport(s) should a nurse recommend a child diagnosed with Hemophilia A play?
Swimming, bowling
Low contact
What is a common complication from radiation therapy?
Skin irritation/burns
What Gastrointestinal disorder has the child with symptoms of sudden abdominal pain, pain that has the child draw up their knees and bloody stool that looks like jelly?
Intussusception