Exam 2: PNR204 / PNR 204 (Latest
Update 2024 / 2025) Pediatric Nursing | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Fortis
Question:
What factors may contribute to or trigger child abuse?
Answer:
- substance abuse
- untreated mental health issues
- young age of a parent
- lack of education
- difficulty bonding or nurturing with child
- prior history or other child abuse
- personal trauma
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Question:
Scoliosis
Answer:
- curvature of the spine
- one shoulder is higher than the other with one prominent scapula
- one arm appears longer than the other when the client bends forward
Question:
Ewing's
Answer:
- is a type of sarcoma (cancer) that occurs int he marrow of the long bones
Question:
Legg-Calve-Perthes
Answer:
- involves disruption to the end of the bone and development of the head of
the femur
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Question:
Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Answer:
- is a systemic generalized autoimmune disease of childhood that involves;
- inflammation of the joints, connective tissues, and viscera
- oligoarthritic affects four or few joints
Question:
Duchenne's
Answer:
- is the most common childhood form of Muscular Dystrophy that occurs
only in boys and results in progressive muscle degeneration, progressive weakness, and hypertrophied calf muscles
Question:
Torticollis
Answer:
- is limited neck motion due to the shortening of the SCM muscle
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Question:
What is traction and why do we use it?
Answer:
- the purpose of traction is to guide the body part into place and hold it steady
- traction may be used to: stabilize and realign bone fractures, such as broken
arm or leg
- help reduce the pain of a fracture before surgery
Question:
Buck's Traction
Answer:
- is a type of skin traction used to pull the hip and leg into extension and
- often used preoperatively for femoral fractures
- can use tape
- no more than 5 kg
- not used to obtain or hold reduction
reduce the fracture
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