Pediatric Death and Dying practic Questions and
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Quiz: The pediatric nurse is having a conversation with parents who have children that
have recently passed away. The nurse knows the parents understand the difference between
bereavement and grief when the participants state:
1. I am trying to prepare for my daughters death, but I just am not ready to do so.
2. Bereavement has caused me to experience sorrow for the loss of my daughter.
3. I cant believe my daughter is gone.
4. If I make a deal that God takes me, then my daughter could come back to my family.
Ans: 2
Quiz: The medical chart states that the parents are requesting withdrawal of care for a
child with terminal leukemia. The nurse understands this request to mean:
1. To keep support measures which sustain life for the child.
2. To keep providing comfort care for the child.
3. To stop life-saving measures and allow the child to die naturally.
4. To stop providing comfort measures for the child.
Ans: 3
Withdrawal of care relates to stopping heroic measures to sustain life.
Quiz: Ashley is a 5-year-old girl who is severely mentally handicapped and has been
bedridden for the last 3 years after a near-drowning accident. Ashley has developed
pneumonia and sustaining her life would require ventilator support. The staff nurse is to
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, obtain information about legal guardianship because her parents have abandoned her at the
hospital. The nurse knows that:
1. Legal guardianship is needed for a person to have medical information released to
him/her.
2. The legal guardian must be present to care for the child.
3. Legal guardianship can only be obtained by her parents.
4. The legal guardian must take physical responsibility for the child.
Ans: 1
The medical information and consent needs to be given by someone with the best interests
of the child in mind who can legally make decisions. Only information can be released to this
person.
Quiz: Identify a developmentally-appropriate activity that can be used to speak to a 6 year
old about the terminal illness of his sibling.
1. Playing checkers and speaking about the illness.
2. Playing with action figures and discussing how death occurs.
3. Playing with crayons and drawing pictures of how a child views his sibling at this time.
4. All of the above are correct.
Ans: 4
Diversion, acting, and art can help children express and discuss the death process.
Quiz: Palliative care should be considered for a terminally-ill child:
1. Within 1 year of death.
2. Within 2 months of death.
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Quiz: The pediatric nurse is having a conversation with parents who have children that
have recently passed away. The nurse knows the parents understand the difference between
bereavement and grief when the participants state:
1. I am trying to prepare for my daughters death, but I just am not ready to do so.
2. Bereavement has caused me to experience sorrow for the loss of my daughter.
3. I cant believe my daughter is gone.
4. If I make a deal that God takes me, then my daughter could come back to my family.
Ans: 2
Quiz: The medical chart states that the parents are requesting withdrawal of care for a
child with terminal leukemia. The nurse understands this request to mean:
1. To keep support measures which sustain life for the child.
2. To keep providing comfort care for the child.
3. To stop life-saving measures and allow the child to die naturally.
4. To stop providing comfort measures for the child.
Ans: 3
Withdrawal of care relates to stopping heroic measures to sustain life.
Quiz: Ashley is a 5-year-old girl who is severely mentally handicapped and has been
bedridden for the last 3 years after a near-drowning accident. Ashley has developed
pneumonia and sustaining her life would require ventilator support. The staff nurse is to
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, obtain information about legal guardianship because her parents have abandoned her at the
hospital. The nurse knows that:
1. Legal guardianship is needed for a person to have medical information released to
him/her.
2. The legal guardian must be present to care for the child.
3. Legal guardianship can only be obtained by her parents.
4. The legal guardian must take physical responsibility for the child.
Ans: 1
The medical information and consent needs to be given by someone with the best interests
of the child in mind who can legally make decisions. Only information can be released to this
person.
Quiz: Identify a developmentally-appropriate activity that can be used to speak to a 6 year
old about the terminal illness of his sibling.
1. Playing checkers and speaking about the illness.
2. Playing with action figures and discussing how death occurs.
3. Playing with crayons and drawing pictures of how a child views his sibling at this time.
4. All of the above are correct.
Ans: 4
Diversion, acting, and art can help children express and discuss the death process.
Quiz: Palliative care should be considered for a terminally-ill child:
1. Within 1 year of death.
2. Within 2 months of death.
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