Nursing Concepts-Human Development
Both members of a couple are carriers of an autosomal recessive trait. What will the nurse teach the couple about the risk of their child being affected?
"There is a 25% chance the child will be affected with the disease trait."
When teaching caregiver of a client with congenital heart disease, the nurse should explain all medical treatments and emphasize which instruction?
"Try to maintain your child's usual lifestyle to promote normal development."
The nurse is assessing a 1-year-old at the well-child annual visit and notes the child is meeting the growth parameters. After noting the birth weight was 8 pounds (3.6 kg) and length was 20 inches (50.8 cm) long, which measurements reflecting height/weight would the nurse expect to document for this visit?
24 pounds (10.8 kg) and 30 inches (75 cm)
The neonatal ICU nurse is aware that type II alveolar cells produce surfactant and they usually develop at how many weeks' gestation?
24-28 weeks
A nurse is assessing older adults in a long-term care facility. According to Havighurst, what is a developmental task of this generation?
Adjusting to decreasing physical status and health
A nurse on the pediatric floor is caring for a toddler refusing to take liquid acetaminophen for fever. What would be the best option?
Allow the parent to hold the child and give the medication.
The nurse is studying numeric disorders involving autosomes. Which term refers to having an abnormal number of chromosomes?
Aneuploidy
The nurse is providing nutrition counseling for an obese adolescent. What is the most effective way for the nurse to obtain a nutrition history from this client?
Ask her what she ate yesterday if it was a typical day.
A leading health problem among elementary school children is
Injuries
A nursing student is visiting a day care to observe growth and development in action. The nursing student completes screening assessments on preschoolers who are learning to feed, dress, and toilet themselves, as well as expanding their motor and verbal abilities. According to Piaget, in what development stage are they?
Preoperational
What is the nursing focus when the nurse performs a hearing test on a newborn infant?
Preventing developmental delays
A client asks the health care provider if any technology exists to limit faulty gene activity from producing unwanted disease proteins. The best response would be:
RNA interference
A group of psychiatric-mental health nurses are reviewing information about different theorists who have played a role in shaping pyschiatric-mental health nursing practice. The group demonstrates understanding of the information when they identify which theorist as proposing that adult sexuality is an end product of a complex process of development that begins in early childhood and involves a variety of body functions or areas that correspond to stages of relationships, especially with parents?
Sigmund Freud
The home health nurse is visiting a 2-year-old client's home. Which finding will cause the nurse to intervene?
The family's medications are located in a kitchen drawer.
The provider is doing genetic counseling with a client. He explains that which condition affects only females?
Turner syndrome
Parents and their nearly 3-year-old child have returned to the clinic for a follow-up appointment. Which of the findings may signal a speech delay?
Uses two-word sentences or phrases *By age 3 children should be speaking in three-four word sentences or phrases.
A young man has been diagnosed with Huntington disease following several months of progressive muscle weakness. The man has two young children: one boy and one girl. The nurse should teach the man that:
each child has 50% chance of developing Huntington disease.
According to Erikson's psychosocial theory of development, an 8-year-old child would be in which stage?
industry versus inferiority
The nurse is providing contraception counseling to a perimenopausal woman who has had negative reactions to oral contraceptive pills (OCPs) in the past and would like a long-term, nonhormone-based method that has a high rate of success. Neither she nor her husband wants to undergo surgery, however. Which method should the nurse recommend?
intrauterine device
