Ch. 30- Basic Pediatric Nursing Care
Questions with Answers
1. Anterior fontanels - Correct Answer A diamond-shaped space covered by tough
membranes between the bones of an infant's cranium.
2. Anticipatory guidance - Correct Answer Psychological preparations of a patient
for an event expected to be stressful, as in the preparation of a child for surgery
by explaining what will happen and what it will feel like.
3. Birth defects (congenital anomalies) - Correct Answer Any abnormality present
at birth, particularly a structural one that may be inherited genetically, acquired
during gestation, or inflicted during parturition (process of giving birth).
4. Body surface area (BSA) - Correct Answer Total area exposed to the outside
environment.
5. Children with special needs - Correct Answer Infants and children with
congenital abnormalities, malignancies, gastrointestinal diseases, and central
nervous system abnormalities.
6. Cognitive impairment - Correct Answer Significantly sub-average general
intellectual functioning; existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior
and manifested during developmental period. (formerly referred to as mental
retardation)
7. En face position - Correct Answer Position in which the adult's face and the
infant's face are approximately 8 inches apart, as when the mother holds the
infant up in front of her face or when she nurses the infant.
8. Family-centered care - Correct Answer Philosophy of care that recognizes the
family as the constant in the child's life and holds that systems and personnel
must support, respect, encourage, and enhance the strengths and competence
of the family.
9. Morbidity - Correct Answer An illness or an abnormal condition or quality; the
rate at which an illness occurs in a particular area of population.
10. Mortality - Correct Answer The condition of being subject to death; number of
deaths in a specific population, usually expressed as deaths per 1000, 10,000, or
100,000.
Questions with Answers
1. Anterior fontanels - Correct Answer A diamond-shaped space covered by tough
membranes between the bones of an infant's cranium.
2. Anticipatory guidance - Correct Answer Psychological preparations of a patient
for an event expected to be stressful, as in the preparation of a child for surgery
by explaining what will happen and what it will feel like.
3. Birth defects (congenital anomalies) - Correct Answer Any abnormality present
at birth, particularly a structural one that may be inherited genetically, acquired
during gestation, or inflicted during parturition (process of giving birth).
4. Body surface area (BSA) - Correct Answer Total area exposed to the outside
environment.
5. Children with special needs - Correct Answer Infants and children with
congenital abnormalities, malignancies, gastrointestinal diseases, and central
nervous system abnormalities.
6. Cognitive impairment - Correct Answer Significantly sub-average general
intellectual functioning; existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior
and manifested during developmental period. (formerly referred to as mental
retardation)
7. En face position - Correct Answer Position in which the adult's face and the
infant's face are approximately 8 inches apart, as when the mother holds the
infant up in front of her face or when she nurses the infant.
8. Family-centered care - Correct Answer Philosophy of care that recognizes the
family as the constant in the child's life and holds that systems and personnel
must support, respect, encourage, and enhance the strengths and competence
of the family.
9. Morbidity - Correct Answer An illness or an abnormal condition or quality; the
rate at which an illness occurs in a particular area of population.
10. Mortality - Correct Answer The condition of being subject to death; number of
deaths in a specific population, usually expressed as deaths per 1000, 10,000, or
100,000.
