NURS 460 Exam 1 Study Questions and Correct Answers

NURS 460 Exam 1 Study Questions and Correct Answers Abuse ✅physical, emotional, sexual Neglect ✅isolation, abandonment, ongoing pattern of inadequate care/ impoverished environment Different than other forms of maltreatment - act of omission rather than an assault or act of commission - physical, educational, emotional behavioral omissions - must be considered as it relates to the developmental level of the child in question Physical neglect ✅dirty, lice again and again, physically smaller than peers, poor fitting clothes/ same clothes, malnourished, can't focus, stealing other people's food, hoarding food, falling asleep - failure to thrive - need touch - inadequate supervision - left alone too young - abandonment - dental hygiene - failure to meet - clothes, food, shelter Under the age of 5 more vulnerable to neglect because not in school yet Educational neglect ✅-Permitting truancy -Failure to send a child to school/enroll child in School -Inattention to special education needs -Language neglect Parent may not talk to child other than commands and does not read to them Emotional neglect ✅hard to prove - inattention to a child's emotional needs - refusal to attend to serious emotional/ behavioral disorder (mental health neglect) - stimulation neglect (cantwell) inability to provide stimulation to offspring, endangers emotional/ neurological development (ex: bottle propping - loss of touch, interaction, eye contact) CNI ✅child neglect index Nico Trocme Worksheet in class Supervision Physical Care - Food/Nutrition - Clothing & Hygiene Provision of Health Care - Physical Health Care - Mental Health Care - Developmental & Educational Care Trauma ✅violence, threats, pain, fear, loss - can occur in all families Reasonable suspicion ✅- all you need to make a SCAR report - objectively reasonable to be suspicious - a reasonable person in a similar position with their training to suspect child abuse or neglect Mandated reporting ✅- if you don't report= 6 months in jail or $1000 - false allegations from child are rare - always believe them - if your supervisor says "nah" you do the report anyway, and follow up if they say they will do it - only mandated reporter in work capacity - if call in your personal life it is anonymous - call immediately then a written report in 36 hours - 15% of reports get substantiated (others are checked on or getting help etc) - neglect is the most often reported and substantiates (50 -75%) Brain stem ✅regulates temperature, heart rate, breathing, blood pressure - reptilian part of the brain - flight, fight, freeze response Limbic system ✅emotions that guide behavior (fear, hate, love, joy) - amygdala stores emotional memories through senses - mammilian brain Cortex ✅speech and language - abstract thinking - planning= cause and effect - deliberate decision making - unique to primates - prefrontal cortex is uniquely human 1875 ✅society for the prevention of cruelty o children SPCC