CPN EXAM_ Developmental Care and Anticipatory Guidance.

CPN EXAM: Developmental Care and
Anticipatory Guidance
Growth and Development are not the same - CORRECT ANSWER-Growth
means and increase in size and development describes the maturation of
structures and included growth

Cephalocaudally - CORRECT ANSWER-From head to toe ( head control, then
sitting then walking)

Proximodistally - CORRECT ANSWER-From trunk to the tips of the extremities (
moving arms and legs before picking things up with the fingers)

From the general to the specific - CORRECT ANSWER-Crawling, then walking,
then skipping

Infancy Growth Pattern - CORRECT ANSWER-Rapid head growth

Toddler-Preschool age Growth Pattern - CORRECT ANSWER-slow growth, trunk
grows the fastest

School Age Growth Pattern - CORRECT ANSWER-slow growth, limbs grow the
fastest

Adolesence - CORRECT ANSWER-Rapid growth, trunk and gonads with
associated tissues grow fastest

Developmental Principles of Age: Chronological Age - CORRECT
ANSWER-years or months since birth date

Developmental Principles of Age: Mental Age - CORRECT ANSWER-Level of
cognitive function

Developmental Principles of Age: Bone age - CORRECT ANSWER-Determined
by xray of tarsals and carpals