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QUALITY WORK THROUGH YEARS OF EXPERIENCE!
Quiz Goal of PEDS nursing
Ans: is to improve the quality of health care for children and their families
Quiz related to race
ethnicity
socioeconomic status
geographic factors
Ans: In addition, disparities in pediatric health care:
Quiz health promotion
Ans: integrates surveillance of the physical, psychologic, and emotional changes
that occur in human beings between birth and the end of adolescence
Quiz the infancy
Ans: The most dramatic time of physical, motor, cognitive, emotional, and social
development occurs during ______.
-Interactions between the parent and infant are central to promoting optimal
developmental outcomes and are a key component of infant assessment.
-Ongoing surveillance is very important
Quiz breastfeeding
Ans: provides the infant with micronutrients, immunologic properties, and several
enzymes that enhance digestion and absorption of these nutrients.
-A recent resurgence in breastfeeding has occurred due to the education of mothers
and fathers regarding its benefits and increased social support.
Quiz 3
,Ans: Children establish lifelong eating habits during the first ____ years of life.
Quiz obesity
Ans: in children and adolescents is defined as a body mass index (BMI) at or
greater than the 95th percentile for youth of the same age and gender.
Quiz overweight
Ans: is defined as a BMI at or above the 85th percentile and below the 95th
percentile for children and teens of the same age and sex.
-Over 30% of children in the United States are overweight, and 17% are obese
Quiz suicide
Ans: _______ has surpassed motor vehicle injuries (MVAs) as the leading cause of
injury mortality
Quiz pediatric pain assessment
Ans: is to determine how much pain the child is feeling
Quiz FLACC scale
Ans: is an interval scale that includes the five categories of behavior: Facial
expression, Leg movement, Activity, Cry, and Consolability
-It measures each behavior on a 0 to 10 scale
Quiz COMFORT SCALE
Ans: is a behavioral, unobtrusive method of measuring distress in unconscious and
ventilated infants, children, and adolescents. This scale has eight indicators:
alertness, calmness/agitation, respiratory response, physical movement, blood
pressure, heart rate, muscle tone, and facial tension. Each indicator is scored
between 1 and 5 based on the behaviors exhibited by the patient
-score of 17 to 26 generally indicates adequate sedation and pain control
Quiz NRS scale
Ans: specifically the 0 to 10 scale, is most widely used in clinical practice because it
is easy to use
-children 8 and up
,Quiz Pediatric Pain Questionnaire (PPQ)
Ans: is a multidimensional pain instrument to assess patient and parental
perceptions of the pain experience in a manner appropriate for the cognitive-
developmental level of children and adolescents
-consists of eight areas of inquiry: pain history, pain language, the colors children
associate with pain, emotions children experience, the worst pain experiences, the
ways children cope with pain, the positive aspects of pain, and the location of their
current pain.
Quiz CRIES scale
Ans: - for neonates
-Crying (0-2)
-Requiring increased oxygen (0-2)
-Increased vital signs (0-2)
-Expression (0-2)
-Sleeplessness (0-2)
-Used in NICU
-*0= no pain; 10=worst pain*
Quiz pain
Ans: is often associated with fear, anxiety, and stress. A number of
nonpharmacologic techniques, such as distraction, relaxation, guided imagery, and
cutaneous stimulation, can help with pain control
Quiz CAM therapies are grouped into five classes:
Ans: • Biologically based: foods, special diets, herbal or plant preparations,
vitamins, other supplements
• Manipulative treatments: chiropractic, osteopathy, massage
• Energy based: Reiki, bioelectric or magnetic treatments, pulsed fields, alternating
and direct currents
• Mind-body techniques: mental healing, expressive treatments, spiritual healing,
hypnosis, relaxation
• Alternative medical systems: homeopathy; naturopathy; ayurveda; traditional
Chinese medicine, including acupuncture and moxibustion
Quiz stress in children
Ans: (1) stress represents a change from the usual state of health and
environmental routine
(2) children have a limited number of coping mechanisms to resolve stressors
Quiz separation
loss of control
bodily injury
, pain
Ans: Major stressors of hospitalization include:
Quiz anaclitic depression
Ans: a pattern of depressed behavior found among very young children that is
caused by separation from one's mother
Quiz stages of protest
Ans: Behaviors observed during later infancy include the following:
• Cries
• Screams
• Searches for parent with eyes
• Clings to parent
• Avoids and rejects contact with strangers
Additional behaviors observed during toddlerhood include the following:
• Verbally attacks strangers (e.g., "Go away")
• Physically attacks strangers (e.g., kicks, bites, hits, pinches)
• Attempts to escape to find parent
• Attempts to physically force parent to stay
Behaviors may last from hours to days.
Protest, such as crying, may be continuous, ceasing only with physical exhaustion.
Approach of stranger may precipitate increased protest.
Quiz stage of despair
Ans: Observed behaviors include the following:
• Is inactive
• Withdraws from others
• Is depressed, sad
• Lacks interest in environment
• Is uncommunicative
• Regresses to earlier behavior (e.g., thumb sucking, bed-wetting, use of pacifier,
use of bottle)
Behaviors may last for variable length of time.
Child's physical condition may deteriorate from refusal to eat, drink, or move.
Quiz stage of detachment
Ans: Observed behaviors include the following:
• Shows increased interest in surroundings
• Interacts with strangers or familiar caregivers
• Forms new but superficial relationships
• Appears happy
Detachment usually occurs after prolonged separation from parent; it is rarely seen
in hospitalized children.
Behaviors represent a superficial adjustment to loss.