Exam 21: Concepts of Growth and Development

A student nurse is undertaking her first clinical practicum at a local health service. She is observing and thinking about how the preceptor is behaving during her daily work. This is an example of:

A nurse is working with the residents of an assisted living complex. When planning care for the old-old stage, the nurse realises that it will be important to:

A 20-month-old child is a client on the paediatric unit of a hospital. The nurse notices that this child is lagging in stage 6 of Piaget's phases of cognitive development. Which activity would indicate that this child is struggling at this stage?

A community health nurse is planning adult health education classes. According to Erikson's stages of development, the nurse must address which task with this age group?

A parent brings a 16-month-old child to the clinic for a well-child check-up. During the assessment, the nurse finds that the child cannot stand next to furniture and does not try to pull himself up from a sitting position. The child is lagging in which of the following processes?

A nurse is plotting the height and weight of children during a school assessment clinic. Monitoring these patterns is assessing which aspect of a child's health?

A nurse educator is working with students and assisting them in addressing their clients' spiritual needs. The educator understands that most traditional, second-year university students are aware of their own spiritual development or working to develop their own system of spirituality. Fowler (Fowler, Streib & Keller, 2004) describes this stage as which of the following?

A nurse educator believes that teaching students without caring about them is an exercise in futility. This educator also believes that in meeting the students' needs, educators must also work to take care of themselves and care for their own needs. This educator's ideals represent which of Gilligan's (1982) stages?