NUR 380 Peds Exam 1 Practice Questions and Correct Answers
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NUR 380
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NUR 380
Adaptation - Adaptation in the context of pediatric nursing refers to the changes or responses exhibited by individuals in the face of perceived physiological, sociological, and psychological stress. - These adaptive responses are influenced by various human variables, including gender, age, cultur...
NUR 380 Peds Exam 1 Practice
Questions and Correct Answers
Adaptation ✅- Adaptation in the context of pediatric nursing refers to the changes or
responses exhibited by individuals in the face of perceived physiological, sociological,
and psychological stress.
- These adaptive responses are influenced by various human variables, including
gender, age, culture, educational level, genetic makeup, and ethnicity.
- Pediatric nurses need to understand and assess how children and their families adapt
to stressors, providing appropriate support and interventions to facilitate positive
outcomes.
Benefits of interprofessional collaboration ✅This care reduces and prevents
fragmentation in care delivery thereby reducing errors
- positive relationship between positive teamwork behaviors and patient safety
outcomes
- results in improved communication among health professionals
The components of quality care ✅- safe
- timely
- efficient
- equitable
- effective
- patient-centered
- OIM - STEEEP
Common factors contributing to medical errors ✅* communication is most frequently
cited factor contributing to medical errors
Deficiencies in education, training, orientation, and experience.
- Inadequate methods of identifying patients
- incomplete assessment on admission
- failing to obtain consent
- failing to provide education to patients
- Inadequate policies to guide healthcare workers
- Lack of consistency in procedures
The results of patient safety for the patient and the organization ✅Patient safety
contributes to:
- shorter hospital stays
- minimal exposure to bacterial cross-contamination
- preservation of optimal functioning level
Family centered care ✅- family is the "constant" in the child's life
, - the patient and the family together are the client
- enable and display the capabilities of the clients
- empower the client by fostering strengths and abilities
Atraumatic care ✅The provision of therapeutic care involves the use of interventions
that eliminate or minimize the psychological and physical stress experienced by children
and their families in the healthcare system
Three principles of atraumatic care ✅1. prevent or minimize separation from parents
2. promote a sense of control
3. prevent of minimize bodily injury or pain
Developmentally appropriate communication methods with children ✅- give choices
only when one exists*
- validate feelings*
- allow warming up
- avoid sudden advances
- use transition objects
- be aware of non-verbal responses
- eye level
- be honest
- avoid words with double meanings
- allow expression of feelings/concerns
- storytelling
- drawings
How to best prepare a child for a procedure ✅- purpose: to enhance emotional
mastery, promote cooperation, augment coping skills, educate
- truthfulness
- eye level
- teach in order of sequence
- discuss what will see/hear/smell/feel
- fix rather than remove
- dolls: toddler and school age
- diagrams/pictures/videos: adolescents
The FLACC pain scale and how to use it ✅- behavioral pain measures
- facial expression, leg movements, activity, cry, consolability
- infants and young children (nonveral and preverbal individuals)
- each category is scored 0-2 or 0-3
Pediatric growth and development ✅focus on the physical, cognitive, emotional, and
social changes that occur in children from birth through adolescence. It encompasses
the systematic and progressive changes in a child's body size, organ function, motor
skills, intellectual capacities, emotional well-being, and social interactions.
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