Prepu: Chapter 11: Caring for Children in Diverse Settings

When preparing the care plan, the nurse includes interventions to provide care for toddlers that are developmentally appropriate in maintaining healthy growth and development. Upon reviewing this care plan, which interventions should the nurse consider removing? Select all that apply. Encourage the parents to increase the amount of time away from the toddler to ensure independence. Maintain the normal home routine such as when the child normally eats or goes to bed. Inform the parents to expect more temper tantrums from the child while hospitalized. Plan for and educate the parents to expect regressive behaviors in the toddler. Make choices for the toddler in order to decrease stress on the child due to hospitalization.

Encourage the parents to increase the amount of time away from the toddler to ensure independence. Make choices for the toddler in order to decrease stress on the child due to hospitalization.

A preschool teacher calls the hospital and wants to introduce the concept of a hospital to her preschool class in case they ever get sick and need to be admitted. What resources could the child life specialist provide for this group to aid in their learning? Select all that apply. Let the children lie in the beds, use the call lights and practice being a patient. Tell the children that hospitals are places for sick people to come and sometimes they don't leave. Tour the hospital, including the playrooms on the pediatric floors. Provide a room for the class with hospital gowns, masks and equipment used on children. Offer to let them see and play with the injection equipment such as syringes and needles.

A preschooler is admitted to the pediatric floor for dehydration and is frightened. Which nursing intervention would be least effective in alleviating the child's anxiety? Assign the child to the same nurse each day. Encourage a caregiver to stay with the child when possible. Allow the child to handle the blood pressure cuff before using it. Explain all procedures using medical terminology.