Growth and Development

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A nurse is collecting data from an adolescent client. Which of the following behaviors should the nurse expect an adolescent who has achieved successful resolution of the developmental tasks of identity vs role confusion to exhibit?

Establishes a close relationship with another person

A nurse is collecting data from 15 year-old adolescent client who had a new diagnosis of diabetes mellitus in order to assist with reinforcing teaching about self-management skills. The nurse should expect the client to be in which of the following phases of cognitive development?

Formal operations phase

A nurse in a community clinic is speaking to a parent who expresses concern for her adolescent son. Which of the following statements by the mother should indicate to the nurse that the adolescent is at risk for suicide?

His basketball coach committed suicide last month

What is the best information for the nurse to include in a class for adolescents about healthy eating habits?

How to choose food using MyPlate

A nurse is reinforcing teaching with a group of adolescents regarding identifying behavioral indicators of depression. Which of the following manifestations should the nurse include?

Irritability, decreased energy and isolation from peers

A nurse is making a home visit for a 16 year-old adolescent who attempted suicide. Which of the following behaviors should alert the nurse that the adolescent still had suicidal intent?

Planning to give his CD collection to his girlfriend

A nurse is reviewing routine screenings for adolescents. Which of the following screenings should the nurse expect to be included?

Scoliosis

Which statement would have the most positive outcome when the nurse is counseling adolescents on nutrition

Shiny hair and good muscles are linked to good nutrition

A nurse is assisting with the development of an education program about nutritional risk among adolescents to a group of parents of adolescents. Which of the following information should the nurse include in the teaching?

Skipping more than three meals per week, eating without family supervision and frequently skipping breakfast

A parent is worried because her 14 year-old son seems to be constantly in the bathroom, shampooing and styling his hair. She worries that her son may be homosexual because he is so concerned with his appearance. What is the most appropriate response to the mother's concern?

Teens are preoccupied with their appearance because of dramatic body changes

Gardisil

Vaccine for HPV

The adolescent's peer group helps him or her move away from?

Dependence on his/her family

Most accidents involving adolescents occur when they:

Drive a car or other vehicle

A nurse is reinforcing teaching with an adolescent regarding administration of the Gardasil vaccine. The vaccine provides immunity against which of the following sexually transmitted infections?

Human papilloma virus (HPV)

A nurse is reinforcing teaching with the parents of an adolescent about expected development. Which of the following developmental tasks should the nurse instruct the parents to expect the adolescent to achieve?

Identity

Animism

If kids says bad chair

A nurse is assisting with a conflict-resolution group for adolescent clients in a community clinic facility. Which of the following clients should the nurse identify as being the highest risk for a suicide attempt?

A client who attempted suicide the previous year

A nurse is reinforcing teaching about health promotion with an adolescent. The nurse include which of the following as the leading cause of death amongst this age group?

Injuries

A 16 year-old child is admitted to the hospital for acute appendicitis, and an appendectomy is performed. Which intervention is most appropriate to facilitate normal growth and development?

Allow the child to participate in activities with other individuals in the same age group when the condition permits

Younger adolescents often have an awkward appearance because:

Body parts grow and mature at different rates

Adolescents' cognitive abilities differ from those of children primarily in that, unlike children, an adolescent's thinking is not necessarily tied to

Concrete events

A nurse is assisting with a psychosocial assessment of an adolescent client. Which of the following factors indicate to the nurse a potential risk for suicide?

Death of a parent at a young age, recent or impending move, low parental expectations and sudden decline in school performance

Nutrition

Decreased need for toddler

A nurse is caring for an adolescent. The nurse should expect that the adolescent is working on which of the following developmental tasks?

Defining a sense of self

Rotavirus vaccine

4 month old shot

A nurse is collecting data from an adolescent. Which of the following represents the greatest risk for suicide?

Active psychiatric disorder

2 year old that is getting use to being in the hospital

Normal reaction

An adolescent who adopts a strict vegetarian diet is at risk for a deficiency of which nutrient?

Protein


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