PEDIATRIC NURSING PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS A+
PEDIATRIC NURSING PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS A+
PEDIATRIC NURSING PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS A+
PEDIATRIC NURSING the nurse recommend for a 5-
month-old?
1. While performing physical a. A big red balloon
assessment of a 12 month-old, the b. A teddy bear with button eyes
nurse notes that the infant’s anterior c. A push-pull wooden truck
fontanelle is still slightly open. Which d. A colorful busy box
of the following is the nurse’s most 5. The mother of a 2-month-old is
appropriate action? concerned that she may be spoiling
a. Notify the physician her baby by picking her up when
immediately because she cries. Which of the following
there is a problem. would be the nurse’s best response?
b. Perform an intensive a. “ Let her cry for a while
neurologic examination. before picking her up, so
c. Perform an intensive you don’t spoil her”
developmental examination. b. “Babies need to be held
d. Do nothing because this is a and cuddled; you won’t
normal finding for the age. spoil her this way”
2. When teaching a mother about c. “Crying at this age means the
introducing solid foods to her child, baby is
which of the following indicates the hungry; give her a bottle”
earliest age at which this should be d. “If you leave her alone she
done? will learn how to cry
a. 1 month herself to sleep”
b. 2 months 6. When assessing an 18-month-
c. 3 months old, the nurse notes a
d. 4 months characteristic protruding
3. The infant of a substance-abusing abdomen. Which of the
mother is at risk for developing a following would explain the
sense of which of the following? rationale for this finding?
a. Mistrust
b. Shame
c. Guilt
d. Inferiority
4. Which of the following toys should
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, a. Increased food intake owing to age c. Consistent table manners
b. Underdeveloped abdominal d. Increase in appetite
muscles 11. Which of the following suggestions
c. Bowlegged posture should the nurse offer the parents of
d. Linear growth curve a 4-year-old boy who resists going to
7. If parents keep a toddler dependent bed at night?
in areas where he is capable of using a. “Allow him to fall asleep in your
skills, the toddle will develop a sense room,
of which of the following? then move him to his own bed.”
a. Mistrust b. “Tell him that you will lock
b. Shame him in his room if he gets out
c. Guilt of bed one more time.”
d. Inferiority c. “Encourage active play at
8. Which of the following is an bedtime to tire him out so he
appropriate toy for an 18-month-old? will fall asleep faster.”
a. Multiple-piece puzzle d. “Read him a story and allow him
b. Miniature cars to play
c. Finger paints quietly in his bed until he falls
d. Comic book asleep.”
9. When teaching parents about the 12. When providing therapeutic play,
child’s readiness for toilet training, which of the following toys would
which of the following signs should the best promote imaginative play in a 4-
nurse instruct them to watch for in the year-old?
toddler? a. Large blocks
a. Demonstrates dryness for 4 hours b. Dress-up clothes
b. Demonstrates ability to sit and c. Wooden puzzle
walk d. Big wheels
c. Has a new sibling for stimulation
d. Verbalizes desire to go to the
bathroom
10. When teaching parents about typical
toddler eating patterns, which of the
following should be included?
a. Food “jags”
b. Preference to eat alone
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, 13. Which of the following activities, c. “Schoolagers are unable to
when voiced by the parents following understand potential dangers
a teaching session about the around them.”
characteristics of school-age cognitive d. “Schoolargers are less
development would indicate the need subject to parental control
for additional teaching? than are younger children.”
a. Collecting baseball cards and 16. Which of the following skills is the
marbles most significant one learned during
b. Ordering dolls according to size the schoolage period?
c. Considering simple a. Collecting
problem-solving options b. Ordering
d. Developing plans for the future c. Reading
14. A hospitalized schoolager states: “I’m d. Sorting
not afraid of this place, I’m not afraid 17. A child age 7 was unable to receive the
of anything.” This statement is most measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR)
likely an example of which of the vaccine at the recommended
following? scheduled time. When would the nurse
a. Regression expect to administer MMR vaccine?
b. Repression a. In a month from now
c. Reaction formation b. In a year from now
d. Rationalization c. At age 10
15. After teaching a group of parents d. At age 13
about accident prevention for 18. The adolescent’s inability to develop
schoolagers, which of the following a sense of who he is and what he can
statements by the group would become results in a sense of which of
indicate the need for more teaching? the following?
a. “Schoolagers are more active a. Shame
and b. Guilt
adventurous than are younger
children.”
b. “Schoolagers are more
susceptible to
home hazards than are younger
children.”
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