NBCSN - School Nurse Certification
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1. scarlet fever - ANS ✔Group A strep illness, bright red rash covers
most of body
2. Carotenemia - ANS ✔yellowing of the skin that results from excess
beta-carotene/Vit A in the body
3. Cutaneous fungal infections - ANS ✔Ringworm and Athlete's foot
Fungus grows on keratin in skin
-Cephalocaudally
4. -Proximodistally - ANS ✔Development occurs cephalocaudally
(head to toe) and proximodistally (trunk to extremities)
5. Preschool children can jump off step - ANS ✔12 inches high
6. when can kids sit in the front seat? - ANS ✔13
7. Booster Seat until - ANS ✔8 years old, 80 pounds
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8. Precocious Puberty Girls - ANS ✔for Caucasian girls before 7,
African American before 6yo. May be caused by pituitary tumor
9. Precocious Puberty Boys - ANS ✔Development of secondary
sexual characteristics before the age of 9. May be caused by pituitary
tumor
10. Delayed puberty may be caused by - ANS ✔lack of
gonadotropins (pituitary gland)
11. Shortest time period you can give HBV vaccines - ANS ✔6
months
12. Paiget - ANS ✔cognitive development
13. Ericson - ANS ✔psychosocial
14. Kohlberg - ANS ✔Moral development (preconventional -
concern of self, conventional - rules to be good person,
postconventional - rules for the good of all of us)
15. Erikson Psychosocial Stages - ANS ✔1-3Autonomy vs.
Shame and Doubt, 3-6Initiative vs. Guilt, 6-11 Industry vs. Interiority,
12-17 Identify vs. Role Confusion
16. Piaget's stages of cognitive development - ANS ✔2-7
preoperational (world revolves around them, one thing at a time,
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fairies), 7-11 concrete operational (can use logic, group objects), 11
and older - formal operational (abstract thought, predict outcomes)
17. When does moral development begin? - ANS ✔age 9
18. When do kids first lose teeth - ANS ✔age 6. Perm teeth in by
12
19. earliest normal puberty - ANS ✔8 years old
20. When does puberty start for boys - ANS ✔age 11. Sperm
devp around age 13 before growth spurt and pub hair
21. Apical pulse location - ANS ✔Mid-clavicular
Over 7 yo Fifth intercostal space and it is called PMI- point of maximum
impulse (4th intercostal space under 7yo)
22. What to document for murmur - ANS ✔rhythm, rate quality
of sound
23. Normal HR - ANS ✔Up to 8 75-115
8-11 70-110
teens 60-100
Book says 6-10 yo 65-125. Just remember higher for younger child
24. Respiratory Rate - ANS ✔3-7yo 20-25
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