INFANT Test guide in addition to Intro to Pediatrics
Remember this guide is not all inclusive! Read your chapters and review your
notes! Use Prep U as a study tool as well.
Make sure you completely answer entire blueprint. Number each of your
answers.
1. Review Growth & 9. Make sure you are VERY familiar
development of infants by with growth & development
month, be very familiar with ages & stages for milestones,
growth & development birth to 1 (especially the G&D chart 23-1 located
year as covered in your text- book in your textbook Birth to One Year)
chart. Speech: 3 month
*development: changes toward Turn head 4 month
maturation Pushes up 12 weeks
* proximodistal center outward Sits up 21 weeks
*vision begins 6 weeks develops Pincer grasp 32 weeks
12 month Crawling 32 weeks
* 8-12 weeks turn head to noise Ready to walk 43 weeks
2. When does the infants birth 10. Suggested feeding schedules for the
weight double? 6 month triple? first year of life. Table 23-3
, 1st bday Newborns are not on a regular schedule,
but feedings are usually 1 ½ to 3
hours apart
Newborns eat as little as 1 oz or as much as
4 oz
Formula fed infants consume 2 to 3 oz per
feeding for the first week
• 8 to 12 times
• every 1 ½ to 3 hours while awake
• 10 minutes on each breast
• 10–20 minutes at each breast
3. When does the first teeth 11. Recommended childhood
erupt? which ones are they? 6-8 immunization schedule
month bottom central incisors • HBV: Birth, 2, 6
• DPT 2, 4, 6
• Hib + Polio: 2, 4, & 6
• MMR 15
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4. What is the purpose of fluoride? 12. Be familiar with health problems of
5. Prevent tooth decay; resistant; the infant
into permanent teeth
6. At what age does the infant 13. Know terminology & anatomic site
usually crawl around & locations of infant health
32 weeks 9 months disorders
7. What are the fontanels? At what 14. Be familiar with nursing process &
age do they close? nursing diagnoses r/t health
Posterior 2-3mon disorders
Anterior 12-18
8. State the age when the fear of 15. Know teaching you would do with
strangers appears parents r/t health problems of
6-7 months the infant
9. Infant Nutrition: 16. Know teaching you would do with
When & What is the “best way” to begin parents r/t safety of their infant
infant feeding?
• Have tendency to push
solid food out of their
mouths with tongue thrust
forward because of the
extrusion reflex