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1.The nurse is providing atraumatic Ans: A, B, F Feedback: When using atraumatic care,
care to children in a hospital setting. the nurse would avoid or reduce painful
What are procedures, avoid or reduce physical distress, use
principles of this philosophy of care? core primary nursing, maximize parent-child
Select all that apply. interactions, provide family-centered care, and
A) Avoid or reduce painful provide opportunities for control, such as
procedures. participating in care, attempting to normalize daily
B) Avoid or reduce physical distress. schedule, and providing direct suggestions.
C) Minimize parent-child interactions.
D) Provide child-centered care.
E) Minimize child control.
F) Use core primary nursing.
,2.The nurse is consulting with a child Ans: C, D, E Feedback: The CLS would provide
life specialist (CLS) to help minimize activities to support normal growth and
the stress development, grief and bereavement support, and
of hospitalization for a child. Which emergency room interventions for children and
services would the CLS provide? families. The CLS would also provide non medical
Select all that preparation for tests, surgeries, and other medical
apply. procedures; support during medical procedures;
A) Medical preparation for tests, and outpatient consultation with families (American
surgeries, and other medical Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Hospital
procedures Care and Child Life Council, 2014, reaffirmed 2018).
B) Support before and after, but not
during, medical procedures
C) Activities to support normal
growth and development
D) Grief and bereavement support
E) Emergency room interventions for
children and families
F) Only inpatient consultations with
families
,3.The nurse is implementing Ans: C Feedback: The nurse should insert a saline
interventions to prevent physical lock if the child will require multiple doses of
stressors for a parenteral medications. During painful or invasive
9-year-old child receiving procedures, the nurse should avoid traditional
chemotherapy in the hospital. How restraint or holding down of the child and use
will the nurse provide alternative positioning such as therapeutic
atraumatic care for this child? hugging. If therapeutic hugging is not an option,
A) Use restraint or holding down of the nurse could have the parent stand near the
the child during the procedure to child's head, not his feet to provide visual and
prevent verbal comfort. The nurse should also use numbing
injury. techniques for blood draws or IV insertion.
B) Have the parent stand near and/or
rub the child's feet during the
procedure.
C) Insert a saline lock if the child will
require multiple doses of parenteral
medications.
D) Avoid using numbing techniques
for multiple blood draws or IV
insertion.
4.The nurse contacts a child life Ans: A Feedback: The CLS is a specially trained
specialist (CLS) to work with children individual who provides programs that prepare
on a pediatric children for hospitalization, surgery, and other
ward. What is the primary goal of the procedures that could be painful (Child Life
CLS? Council, 2010a, 2010b). The goal of the CLS is to
A) Decrease anxiety and fear during decrease the anxiety and fear while improving and
hospitalization and painful encouraging understanding and cooperation of the
procedure. child. The CLS may use distraction techniques and
B) Keep children who are act as a liaison, but that is not the primary goal of
hospitalized distracted from pain. the CLS role. The CLS does not perform medical
C) Perform medical procedures procedures.
using atraumatic principles.
D) Act as a liaison between the nurse
and the child.
, 5.The nurse is preparing a child and Ans: C Feedback: Therapeutic hugging (a holding
his family for a lumbar puncture. position that promotes close physical contact
Which would be between the child and a parent or caregiver) may
a primary intervention instituted to be used for certain procedures or treatments
keep the child safe? where the child must remain still. Alternatively,
A) Distraction methods distraction or stimulation (such as with a toy) can
B) Stimulation methods help to gain the child's cooperation, but
C) Therapeutic hugging therapeutic hugging would be used to keep the
D) Therapeutic touch child safe during the procedure. Therapeutic touch
is an energy therapy used to promote healing and
decrease anxiety and stress and is not related to
safety.
6.The child life specialist (CLS) is Ans: B Feedback: When using atraumatic principles,
preparing a 6-year-old child for a the CLS would explain any sensations, such as
magnetic noises that will be experienced. The language
resonance imaging (MRI) scan. should be simple and at the child's developmental
Which statement reflects the use of age; using the technical term for the machine might
atraumatic frighten the child. Telling the child there is nothing
principles when explaining the to worry about does not allay the child's fears.
procedure? Allowing the child to experience the machine
A) You will be taken to a magnetic without explaining the sensations does not follow
resonance imaging machine for an x- atraumatic principles.
ray of
your liver.
B) You may hear some loud noises
when you are lying in the machine,
but
they won't hurt you.
C) You have nothing to worry about;
the MRI machine is safe and will not
cause you any pain.
D) Let's just get you to the x-ray
department for your test and you'll
see how
simple it is.
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Terms in this set (61)
1.The nurse is providing atraumatic Ans: A, B, F Feedback: When using atraumatic care,
care to children in a hospital setting. the nurse would avoid or reduce painful
What are procedures, avoid or reduce physical distress, use
principles of this philosophy of care? core primary nursing, maximize parent-child
Select all that apply. interactions, provide family-centered care, and
A) Avoid or reduce painful provide opportunities for control, such as
procedures. participating in care, attempting to normalize daily
B) Avoid or reduce physical distress. schedule, and providing direct suggestions.
C) Minimize parent-child interactions.
D) Provide child-centered care.
E) Minimize child control.
F) Use core primary nursing.
,2.The nurse is consulting with a child Ans: C, D, E Feedback: The CLS would provide
life specialist (CLS) to help minimize activities to support normal growth and
the stress development, grief and bereavement support, and
of hospitalization for a child. Which emergency room interventions for children and
services would the CLS provide? families. The CLS would also provide non medical
Select all that preparation for tests, surgeries, and other medical
apply. procedures; support during medical procedures;
A) Medical preparation for tests, and outpatient consultation with families (American
surgeries, and other medical Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Hospital
procedures Care and Child Life Council, 2014, reaffirmed 2018).
B) Support before and after, but not
during, medical procedures
C) Activities to support normal
growth and development
D) Grief and bereavement support
E) Emergency room interventions for
children and families
F) Only inpatient consultations with
families
,3.The nurse is implementing Ans: C Feedback: The nurse should insert a saline
interventions to prevent physical lock if the child will require multiple doses of
stressors for a parenteral medications. During painful or invasive
9-year-old child receiving procedures, the nurse should avoid traditional
chemotherapy in the hospital. How restraint or holding down of the child and use
will the nurse provide alternative positioning such as therapeutic
atraumatic care for this child? hugging. If therapeutic hugging is not an option,
A) Use restraint or holding down of the nurse could have the parent stand near the
the child during the procedure to child's head, not his feet to provide visual and
prevent verbal comfort. The nurse should also use numbing
injury. techniques for blood draws or IV insertion.
B) Have the parent stand near and/or
rub the child's feet during the
procedure.
C) Insert a saline lock if the child will
require multiple doses of parenteral
medications.
D) Avoid using numbing techniques
for multiple blood draws or IV
insertion.
4.The nurse contacts a child life Ans: A Feedback: The CLS is a specially trained
specialist (CLS) to work with children individual who provides programs that prepare
on a pediatric children for hospitalization, surgery, and other
ward. What is the primary goal of the procedures that could be painful (Child Life
CLS? Council, 2010a, 2010b). The goal of the CLS is to
A) Decrease anxiety and fear during decrease the anxiety and fear while improving and
hospitalization and painful encouraging understanding and cooperation of the
procedure. child. The CLS may use distraction techniques and
B) Keep children who are act as a liaison, but that is not the primary goal of
hospitalized distracted from pain. the CLS role. The CLS does not perform medical
C) Perform medical procedures procedures.
using atraumatic principles.
D) Act as a liaison between the nurse
and the child.
, 5.The nurse is preparing a child and Ans: C Feedback: Therapeutic hugging (a holding
his family for a lumbar puncture. position that promotes close physical contact
Which would be between the child and a parent or caregiver) may
a primary intervention instituted to be used for certain procedures or treatments
keep the child safe? where the child must remain still. Alternatively,
A) Distraction methods distraction or stimulation (such as with a toy) can
B) Stimulation methods help to gain the child's cooperation, but
C) Therapeutic hugging therapeutic hugging would be used to keep the
D) Therapeutic touch child safe during the procedure. Therapeutic touch
is an energy therapy used to promote healing and
decrease anxiety and stress and is not related to
safety.
6.The child life specialist (CLS) is Ans: B Feedback: When using atraumatic principles,
preparing a 6-year-old child for a the CLS would explain any sensations, such as
magnetic noises that will be experienced. The language
resonance imaging (MRI) scan. should be simple and at the child's developmental
Which statement reflects the use of age; using the technical term for the machine might
atraumatic frighten the child. Telling the child there is nothing
principles when explaining the to worry about does not allay the child's fears.
procedure? Allowing the child to experience the machine
A) You will be taken to a magnetic without explaining the sensations does not follow
resonance imaging machine for an x- atraumatic principles.
ray of
your liver.
B) You may hear some loud noises
when you are lying in the machine,
but
they won't hurt you.
C) You have nothing to worry about;
the MRI machine is safe and will not
cause you any pain.
D) Let's just get you to the x-ray
department for your test and you'll
see how
simple it is.
