ATI PEDS PROCTORED
EXAM 2026 REVISION
GUIDE
EXAM 1 QUESTIONS
1. A nurse is assessing language development in all the infants presenting at the doctor's office
for well-child visits. At which age range would the nurse expect a child to verbalize the
words "dada" and "mama"?
✓ 9 and 12 months
2. During the toddler stage, ages 2-3 years, a child will gain approximately how many pounds
per year?
✓ 3-5
3. Development that proceeds from the inside out is called by which of the following terms?
✓ proximodistal
4. Routine physical examinations on children include height, weight, vital signs, physical
examination, vision and hearing screening, diet assessment, screening for alcohol and other
drug use, and screening for which of the following?
✓ scoliosis
5. A mother tells you that her 4-year-old child has begun to have night waking and has started
thumb sucking again. Otherwise the child seems very healthy. From this brief history, your
immediate response is:
✓ “What changes have happened in your family or with your child?”
6. Using your knowledge of the Freudian stages of psychosexual development when caring for
a child between the ages of 1 and 3 years, it would be most important for you to ask the
caregivers about:
✓ d. rituals used for elimination
7. To look into the ear of a child younger than 3 years old, the nurse would position the ear by
pulling the auricle:
✓ down and back
8. The very first sucking by an infant occurs because of:
✓ d. an accidental reflex of rooting
9. Piaget believed that interactions with the environment caused people to organize patterns of
1
,thought called:
✓ Schema
2
, 10. Which of the following statements best describes object permanence?
✓ The infant realizes an object continues to exist even when out of sight.
11. A nurse has instructed the parents of an infant to introduce solid foods one at a time, while
carefully observing for signs of food allergies. Which of the following signs and symptoms
may be suggestive of food allergies? Select all that apply.
✓ diarrhea
✓ abdominal pain
✓ rashes
12. According to Piaget, the concrete operations stage occurs in which of the following age
ranges?
✓ 6 to 12 years
13. Cephalocaudal development proceeds in which direction?
✓ head downward
14. The nurse would expect to find which of the following resting respiratory rates in the normal
newborn?
✓ 40
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EXAM 2026 REVISION
GUIDE
EXAM 1 QUESTIONS
1. A nurse is assessing language development in all the infants presenting at the doctor's office
for well-child visits. At which age range would the nurse expect a child to verbalize the
words "dada" and "mama"?
✓ 9 and 12 months
2. During the toddler stage, ages 2-3 years, a child will gain approximately how many pounds
per year?
✓ 3-5
3. Development that proceeds from the inside out is called by which of the following terms?
✓ proximodistal
4. Routine physical examinations on children include height, weight, vital signs, physical
examination, vision and hearing screening, diet assessment, screening for alcohol and other
drug use, and screening for which of the following?
✓ scoliosis
5. A mother tells you that her 4-year-old child has begun to have night waking and has started
thumb sucking again. Otherwise the child seems very healthy. From this brief history, your
immediate response is:
✓ “What changes have happened in your family or with your child?”
6. Using your knowledge of the Freudian stages of psychosexual development when caring for
a child between the ages of 1 and 3 years, it would be most important for you to ask the
caregivers about:
✓ d. rituals used for elimination
7. To look into the ear of a child younger than 3 years old, the nurse would position the ear by
pulling the auricle:
✓ down and back
8. The very first sucking by an infant occurs because of:
✓ d. an accidental reflex of rooting
9. Piaget believed that interactions with the environment caused people to organize patterns of
1
,thought called:
✓ Schema
2
, 10. Which of the following statements best describes object permanence?
✓ The infant realizes an object continues to exist even when out of sight.
11. A nurse has instructed the parents of an infant to introduce solid foods one at a time, while
carefully observing for signs of food allergies. Which of the following signs and symptoms
may be suggestive of food allergies? Select all that apply.
✓ diarrhea
✓ abdominal pain
✓ rashes
12. According to Piaget, the concrete operations stage occurs in which of the following age
ranges?
✓ 6 to 12 years
13. Cephalocaudal development proceeds in which direction?
✓ head downward
14. The nurse would expect to find which of the following resting respiratory rates in the normal
newborn?
✓ 40
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