NUR 2513 / NUR2513 Maternal Child Nursing Final Exam Review|Rated A Complete Guide| Latest 2022/2023Rasmussen
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NUR 2513 Maternal-Child Nursing (NUR2513)
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Rasmussen College
NUR 2513 / NUR2513 Maternal Child Nursing Final Exam Review| Rasmussen
1. A child is speaking, then suddenly stops and stares for about 5 seconds is what type of seizure?
· absence seizure
2. absence seizure
· • A form of generalized seizures
· Occur more often in girls tha...
NUR 2513 / NUR2513 Maternal Child
Nursing Final Exam Review| Rasmussen
1. A child is speaking, then suddenly stops and stares for about 5 seconds is what type of
seizure?
· absence seizure
2. absence seizure
· • A form of generalized seizures
· Occur more often in girls than boys
· Usually occur in school age children 4-12
· Consist of staring spells that last for a few seconds
· As many as 100 seizures can occurring during a day
· Controlled with medications
3. cerebral palsy
· Group of nonprogressive disorders of upper motor neuron impairment that
result in motor dysfunction
4. Spastic Cerebral Palsy
· • is excessive tone in the voluntary muscles that results in loss of upper motor
neurons
· This child will have hypertonic muscles, abnormal clonus, exaggeration of
DTR, and positive Babinski, and newborn reflexes past their expected time
such as a strong Moro reflex and tonic neck reflex
5. Nursing Interventions: Skeletal Traction
, · Assess frequently
· Neurovascular checks
· Vital signs - BP (hypertension)
· Skin care
· Distraction measures: TV, child life volunteers, gaming systems, toys in bed,
computer time
· • Engage the child in therapeutic play while confined to this position
6. _____________ involves the use of a pin or a wire that is passed through the skin into the
end of the bone. Ropes are swung over pulleys and attached to weights to pull on the
extremity site to keep it in alignment
· skeletal traction
7. Patient Education: Cast Care
· Elevate
· Neurovascular checks q 4 hours
· Keep dry
· Do not put things inside case - can use cool setting on hair dryer
· Cover the cast with a plastic bag to bathe
· • Keep follow up appointments
8. Nursing Interventions: Cast Care
· Stabilize injury
· Control pain
· Neurovascular checks
· • Education on cast care
, · Warm to touch skin around area
· Edema at area
· • Tachycardia
· • Tachypnea
10. Intervention for superficial burns
· relieving pain and discomfort (ex: cool compress)
11. daily debridement
· This treatment for severe burns is important because it decreases the risk for
infection
12. A terminally ill child is awake at 2 AM and continues to put on the call light, what should
you do?
· sit with the child until sleep comes
13. S/S: Meningitis
· Upper respiratory infection - antibiotics if bacterial
· Irritable
· • Headaches - treat the pain
· • Nuchal rigidity - treat the pain
· • Positive Brudzinski and Kernig sign
14. An infant will get the measles vaccine after _____ of age
· 12 months
15. S/S: Pertussis
· itchy
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