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CPN Exam Questions And Correct Answers
3 types of growth and development progress - answer✔- cephalocaudally( head to toe)
-proximodistally ( trunk to tips of extremeties)
- general to specific
Erikson Psychosocial development
Infancy (0-12 mo) - answer✔Trust vs mistrust
Erikson Psychosocial development
Toddlerhood(1-3yrs) - answer✔Autonomy vs Shame & Doubt
Erikson Psychosocial development
Early Childhood(3-6 yr) - answer✔Initiative vs guilt
Erikson Psychosocial development
Middle Childhood (6-12yr) - answer✔industry vs inferiority
Erikson Psychosocial development
Adolescence - answer✔Identity vs Role confusion
Jean Piagets theory of cognitive development - answer✔Cognitive development through
interaction with environment
Piagets Cognitive Development
Birth to 2 yrs - answer✔Sensorimotor stage
- sense of time and space develops with routines
-sense of permeance
Piagets Cognitive Development
2- 7 yrs - answer✔Preoperational stage
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-egocentrism- self perspective only
- thinking magical,concrete,
-use of symbols, language, and imitation
Piagets Cognitive Development
7-11 yrs - answer✔Concrete operations stage
- logical, tangible thinking
-masters, collects, sorts facts
Piagets Cognitive Development
11-15yrs - answer✔Formal Operations stage
-adaptability and flexibility
- abstract thought
Kohlberg -Moral development
Toddlerhood and early childhood - answer✔-preconventional or premoral: child conforms to
rules imposed by authority figures to avoid punishment
Kohlberg -Moral development
Middle childhood - answer✔- conventional: social conformity and loyalty. Initially seeks
approval, seeks to avoid getting in trouble or getting caught
Kohlberg -Moral development
Adolescence - answer✔Adopts own set of morals/values that guide behavior
Typical weight progression from birth - answer✔Avg newborn: 7lbs
5 months: 2x birth weight
1 yr: 3x birth weight
BMI parameters - answer✔>95%- Obese
85%- <95% Overweight
<5% Underweight
Normal length/ height progression from birth - answer✔Avg newborn: 20 in
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Growth in 1st yr: 10 in
Growth in 2nd yr: 5 in
Growth from 2.5 yr to puberty 0: 0.5 in
Precosious puberty - answer✔Prior to age 7- white females
Prior to age 6 in Afr. Amer
At what age does vision mature - answer✔Age 6
What is the first sign of puberty in females? - answer✔breast development at age 7-13yo
What is the first sign of puberty for males - answer✔testicular enlargement at age 10-15y/o
HEADS assessment for adolescent Risk profile - answer✔Home, Education, ,Activites, Drugs,
Sexual Activity/identity, Suicide/depression
congenital - answer✔present at birth due to abnormalities in utero( may or may not be noticible
at birth)
Common Dominant disorders - answer✔huntingtons disease, osteogenesis imperfecta,
neurofibromatosis, night blindness
Common recessive disorders - answer✔cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, PKU, tay Sachs
disease, albinism
Downs syndrome genetic cause - answer✔Related to nondisjunction with 3 chromosomes on
pair 21
- increases with maternal age
Assessment findings for downs syndrome - answer✔small head w/ slow brain growth, upward
slanting palpebral fissures, marbeling in iris, broad flat nose, low set ears, protruding tonguw,
small stature, hypotonia, mild to mod intellectual disability
Tuner Syndrome- genetics - answer✔XO karotype for 23rd chromosome( monosomy)
-only in females
Assessment findings for Tuner Syndrome - answer✔short stature, webbing of neck, low set ears,
lack of sexual development, learning disability, cardiac & renal issues
Klinefelter syndrome- genetics - answer✔- occurs only in males
-extra chromosome on 23rd pair XXY
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Assessment findings for Klinefelters syndrome - answer✔tall thin body, failure of sex
characteristics in puberty, sterile, learning disability
Blood composition - answer✔RBC
thrombocytes( platelets)
leukocytes( 5- neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, esinophils, basophils)
life span of RBC - answer✔120 days
Byproducts of RBC hemolysis - answer✔unconjugated bilirubin( indirect bilirubin) and iron
polycythemia - answer✔excess RBC production
Clinical indications for increase in Hgb - answer✔polycythemia vera, congenital heart disease,
chronic hypoxia, high altitude, fluid loss
normal hemoglobin levels in child - answer✔11.5-14.5
Clinical indications for decrease in Hgb - answer✔Aplastic anemia, renal disease, iron
deficiency, bone marrow suppression, sickle cell disease, hemorrhage, spherocytosis, fluid
volume overload
Amenia - answer✔symptom definied as decrease in serum hgb
Cause of anemia - answer✔-nutritional deficiencies
-increased hemolysis
-impaired/reduced production of RBC due to bone marrow or kidney issue
- excessive blood loss
Nutrients needed to make RBCs - answer✔iron, folic acid, vitamin B12
Iron deficiency anemia causes - answer✔- dietary intake poor
-impaired absorption of iron
-blood loss
-excess demands of iron due to growth
aplastic anemia - answer✔results from bone marrow inability to produce RBCs and other blood
components
