BEARS - The BEARS tools assesses the child's sleep history with respect to
Bedtime, Excessive daytime sleepiness, Awakenings, Regularity and
Snoring. ✔️Ans - Parents report that their school- aged child with
leukemia is not sleeping well at home. Which tool is used to assess for sleep
disturbance?
Autonomy versus doubt - Psychosocial autonomy versus doubt is the
developmental task of a toddler. ✔️Ans - Which of the following
describes the developmental stage of a toddler?
Denial allows the patient to maintain hope in order to function
productively. ✔️Ans - The nurse notices that a 13-year- old has been
cheerful since learning of her cancer diagnosis, avoids discussing her
illness and treatment, and allows her parents ask all the questions. The
best interpretation of her behavior is that the patient is:
Be emotionally involved and available to the teen. ✔️Ans - The parent of
an adolescent with cancer seeks advice on how to best promote the
emotional well- being of the child while receiving therapy. The nurse's best
advice to the parent is to?
Translocation of B-cell immunoglobulin genes - Burkitt lymphoma and
Burkitt-like lymphoma are characterized by the chromosomal translocation
of B-cell immunoglobulin ✔️Ans - Which of the following is a cytogenetic
feature for a patient diagnosed with Burkitt lymphoma?
Localized nodal disease - Involvement of a single lymph node is a favorable
prognostic indicator. The presence of B symptoms, male gender, and an
elevated sedimentation rate are considered unfavorable prognostic
indicators. ✔️Ans - What is a favorable prognostic indicator for a child
diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma?
Langerhans cell histiocytosis ✔️Ans - Which of the following is a
disorder of dendritic cells?
, Vagus - Brainstem gliomas effect cranial nerves V-X, and are located below
the tentorium cerebelli. ✔️Ans - Which nerve will most likely be
compromised for a child diagnosed witha brainstem glioma?
Oncogenes promote cell growth and prevent apoptosis. ✔️Ans -
Oncogenes transform normal cells in to cancer cells by which of the
following actions?
Abdominal lymphomas are at increased risk for tumor lysis syndrome and
bowel obstruction ✔️Ans - A patient with non-Hodgkin lymphoma with
abdominal involvement is at greatest risk for which of the following
complications?
Leukocyte-reduction prevents the transmission of cytomegalovirus ✔️Ans
- Blood products are leukocyte- reduced to prevent which of the
following?
50GY ✔️Ans - Moist desquamation of the skin occurs with radiation
doses of:
1000 mg/m2 of intravenous cytarabine ✔️Ans - Which of the following
doses of medication is most likely associated with neurocognitive
sequelae?
Signs of precocious puberty include advanced bone age, early onset breast
development, early epiphyseal fusion, short stature. ✔️Ans - Which of
the following is an indication that a child is experiencing precocious
puberty?
"Which therapies have you looked in to?" Nurses should encourage open
communication with families about complementary therapies. Nurses
should assess which therapies the patient would like to have more
information about. ✔️Ans - After receiving treatment information, the
parents of a child recently diagnosed with cancer ask if complementary and
alternative treatments are an option. What is the nurse's best response?
The mechanism of action determines how the medication is classified.
✔️Ans - Chemotherapy medications are either cell-cycle specific or
nonspecific as determined by the medication's?