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2024 PEDS HESI PRACTICEEXAM QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
parents confide to the nurse that their child who is 35 mos old does not talk
and spends hours sitting on the floor watching the celing fan go aroud. they
are concerned their child may have autism. the nurse should ask the parents
what question?
a. does your child have brothers or sisters?
b. does your child seek you out for comfort and love?
c. do you have trouble getting babysitters for your child?
d. does your child receive speech therapy? - CORRECT ANSWERS-B -
CHILDREN w/ autistic-like features lack many social skills, such as seeking
reciprocity and comfort from parents and maintaining eye contact when
someone is speaking w/ them. they have an inability to develop peer
relationships (autism - behavioral and intellectual deficits)
which outcome is expected in a breastfed newborn?
a. voids spontaneously within 12 hours of life
b. loses 10% body weiight within the first 5 days
c. regains birth weight by the 14th day of life
d. awakens spontaneously for all feedings - CORRECT ANSWERS-c - breastfed
infants should regain their birth weight by 14 days of life (mother's milk
comes in about day 4 of life)
a pregnant teen is to have prenatal testing. she is afraid of needles and
wants to know the least invasive way she can get testing done. the nurse
should suggest which testing procedure?
a. triple marker screen
b. ultrasound exam
c. amniocentesis
d. chorionic villus sampling - CORRECT ANSWERS-B - the ultrasound is
appropriate for a noninasive procedure. it would detect multiple gestations
and structural abnormalities, but it would not detect biochemical
abnormalities (this is the only test that does not require a blood sample -
however, encourage biochemical testing because it will provide valuable
information about the pregnancy
, a teenager is legally blind. the teen is wearing thick glasses and is carrying
some schoolbooks. which question should the nurse ask the teen?
a. just how blind are you?
b. can you see enough to read those books?
c. tell me what you can see in this room
d. is your vision worse than 20/200 in either of your eyes - CORRECT
ANSWERS-C - will assist in learning the teen's visual capabilties -
rapport/trust --> chronic disability so always appropriate to use therapeutic
communication
the nurse is working in a school health clinic, and a child comes in
complaining of "something in my eye." what should the nurse do first?
a. have the child wash hands
b. refer the child to an opthalmologist
c. wash out the affected eye w/ tap water
d. examine the eye for a foreign body - CORRECT ANSWERS-D - examine eye
before attempting to treat the injury/determining plan of action --> the first
step of the nursing process is to ASSESS the problem
a child assigned to the nurse's floor has dysfluency. the nurse should
recognize what symptoms?
a. stuttering
b. substitution of one sound for another
c. speaking in a monotone
d. hypernasal speech - CORRECT ANSWERS-A - dysfluency: speech w/
abnormal rhythms such as repetitions in sounds or words.
the average newborn weighs 3400g. the nurse will tell the parents that the
baby weighs __________ lbs - CORRECT ANSWERS-7.5 lbs
divide grams by 1000 --> kg (3400/1000 = 3.4)
multiply kkg by 2.2 ----> lbs (3.4x2.2 = 7.48)
the posture of a healthy term newbown is described as
a. hypotonic
b. assymetric
c. extended
d. flexed - CORRECT ANSWERS-d - flexed (because it has been curled up in
the uterus)
the nurse is working in the newborn nusery and accidentally bumps the crib
of one of the babies. this baby demonstrates a moro reflex. the nurse sees
the baby in which posture?
a. trunk extended upward and head lifted
b. when placed on abdomen, crawling movement occurs
c. "fencing" posture
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