Exam 20: Assessing the Child and Adolescent

The FLACC Scale is used to assess pain in children ages 2 months to 7 years. What criteria are evaluated on this scale?

When using an otoscope to assess the ear of a child under 3 years, the examiner should:

During the health history, the nurse reviews information about factors that may affect the physical and cognitive development of the child. Which question or statement by the nurse would be most appropriate?

According to Tanner's staging of sexual maturity, female staging is based on:

Special considerations that are helpful to know when examining a child include which of the following? Select all that apply.

You are assessing a 15-year-old boy and are discussing testicular self-examination. He states, "I do not know anything about that examination and I would never do that!" Which of the following remarks by the nurse is most appropriate?

The Review of Systems (ROS) is an essential component of the health history in the evaluation of a child. The ROS uses information from:

You are assessing a toddler who has just learned how to walk. Look at the picture and identify the type of legs that are normally seen in this age group. It is called _________ ___________.

When examining an inner ear in a child, the structures that should be identified include which of the following? Select all that apply.

You are assessing a 4-year-old child who has ear pain. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, this stage of pediatric development is called:

Identify the true statements about pediatric cardiac assessment. Select all that apply.

A 13-year-old female is undergoing a pre-school health assessment. Questions regarding smoking, drinking alcohol, and current sexual activity are best approached by the nurse:

A 16-year-old girl reports that she has a severe allergy to peanuts. You educate the patient that children who are allergic to peanuts may also be allergic to which of the following? Select all that apply.

Pediatric breath sounds that are heard over the periphery of the lung fields with inspiration longer and louder than expiration are called ____________________ breath sounds.

You are performing a physical assessment on a 3-year-old toddler. Correctly order the techniques of the physical examination (A-E). (Enter the number of each step in the proper sequence. Do not use punctuation or spaces. Example: ABCD.)

When should infants at risk for lead poisoning be tested?

You are assessing the posture and gait of a 14-month-old toddler. What are the normal assessment findings? Select all that apply.

During a review of systems of the skin, which of the following questions are appropriate to ask a teenager? Select all that apply.

When you are assessing a child's capillary refill, a normal finding would be:

When auscultating an apical pulse of a child, the diaphragm of the stethoscope should be placed over the apex of the heart. The apex is located at: