Question

The parents of a school-age child with ADHD ask how to best manage aggressive or impulsive behaviors. What is the best nursing intervention?

Answer 1

Correct Answers:

Provide consistency and limit setting.

Rationale :

🧩 Consistency gives children with ADHD a predictable environment that reduces anxiety and behavioral escalation.

🧩 Clear limit setting helps control impulsivity by defining acceptable and unacceptable behaviors.

🧩 Structured rules support behavioral regulation when internal self-control is limited.

🧩 Predictable consequences help the child link actions to outcomes, improving learning.

🧩 This approach promotes safety, emotional stability, and improved social functioning.

🧩 Incorrect Options

• Allow the child to negotiate the rules

🧩 Negotiation reduces structure and increases inconsistency.

🧩 Children with ADHD struggle with self-direction and need firm guidance.

• Encourage the child to express feelings

🧩 Emotional expression does not directly reduce impulsive actions.

🧩 It should be supportive but not the primary behavioral strategy.

• Train the child to be assertive

🧩 Assertiveness training addresses passivity, not impulsivity.

🧩 It does not correct poor impulse control.

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Answer 2

Correct Answers:

Educating families and children on proper hand hygiene techniques and ensuring frequent handwashing.

Rationale :

🧼 The susceptible host link focuses on reducing vulnerability to infection.

🧼 Hand hygiene prevents pathogens from entering the body through mucous membranes.

🧼 Education improves compliance with infection-prevention practices.

🧼 Frequent handwashing reduces microbial load on the hands.

🧼 This intervention strengthens the child’s first line of defense.

🧼 Incorrect Options

• Using gloves and gowns during all patient care activities

🧼 This targets mode of transmission, not host susceptibility.

🧼 It protects staff and other patients, not the host directly.

• Ensuring all surfaces are disinfected weekly

🧼 This addresses the reservoir, not the host.

🧼 Weekly cleaning alone is insufficient for infection prevention.

• Isolating the child in a negative pressure room

🧼 This controls airborne spread, not host defenses.

🧼 It is used only for specific airborne diseases.

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Answer 3

Correct Answers:

Reservoir

Rationale :

🩹 A draining wound provides a reservoir where microorganisms can survive.

🩹 Moist dressings promote bacterial growth and multiplication.

🩹 Failure to change the dressing allows pathogens to accumulate.

🩹 Increased microbial load raises the risk of wound infection.

🩹 Proper wound care interrupts the reservoir link.

🩹 Incorrect Options (2 points each):

• Portal of exit

🩹 This refers to how pathogens leave the body.

🩹 The issue here is growth, not exit.

• Susceptible host

🩹 Host immunity has not changed.

🩹 The problem is environmental contamination.

• Mode of transmission

🩹 Transmission occurs after pathogens spread.

🩹 The reservoir must exist first.

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Answer 4

Correct Answers:

Report of playing in the woods about a week ago

Rationale :

🕷️ Lyme disease is transmitted through tick bites.

🕷️ Ticks commonly live in wooded and grassy areas.

🕷️ Symptoms appear days to weeks after exposure.

🕷️ Exposure history is critical for early diagnosis.

🕷️ Outdoor activity strongly supports Lyme disease suspicion.

🕷️ Incorrect Options:

• Rash is papular and vesicular

🕷️ Lyme disease causes a bull’s-eye rash, not vesicles.

🕷️ This suggests a different dermatologic condition.

• High fever occurring 4 days before the rash

🕷️ Fever may occur but is not diagnostic.

🕷️ Exposure history is more specific.

• Extreme pruritus with visible nits

🕷️ This indicates lice infestation.

🕷️ It is unrelated to Lyme disease.

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Answer 5

Correct Answers:

Ring-like rash on lower leg

Rationale :

🎯 Erythema migrans is the classic Lyme disease rash.

🎯 It appears as a ring-shaped or bull’s-eye lesion.

🎯 The rash occurs at the site of the tick bite.

🎯 It typically expands over time and is non-pruritic.

🎯 This finding is highly specific for early Lyme disease.

🎯 Incorrect Options :

• Swelling in the neck

🎯 This suggests lymphadenopathy or infection elsewhere.

🎯 It is not a hallmark of early Lyme disease.

• Hypersalivation

🎯 This is unrelated to tick-borne illness.

🎯 It suggests neurologic or oral pathology.

• Confusion and anxiety

🎯 These occur in late neurologic Lyme disease.

🎯 They are not early findings.

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Answer 6

Correct Answers:

I'll use a match to burn the tick prior to removing with tweezers.

Rationale :

🐜 Using heat can cause the tick to regurgitate saliva into the skin.

🐜 Tick saliva may contain pathogens such as Borrelia burgdorferi.

🐜 Burning increases the risk of infection transmission.

🐜 Heat can cause skin injury or burns to the child.

🐜 Safe removal requires steady traction with tweezers, not heat.

🐜 Incorrect Options :

• I’ll grasp the tick and twist it while pulling it away quickly.

🐜 Twisting is not ideal but still removes the tick.

🐜 The key concern is avoiding crushing or heating the tick.

• I need to grasp the tick close to the child’s skin.

🐜 This is the correct technique.

🐜 It reduces the chance of leaving mouthparts behind.

• I’ll protect my fingers with a paper towel.

🐜 This reduces direct contact with the tick.

🐜 It is an appropriate safety measure.

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Answer 7

Correct Answers:

Provide supplemental oxygen as needed to maintain oxygen saturation
Administer antipyretics if fever is present
Encourage oral hydration

Rationale :

🫁 RSV causes lower airway inflammation, mucus plugging, and bronchiolar narrowing.

🫁 These changes impair gas exchange, leading to hypoxemia.

🫁 Supplemental oxygen is provided to maintain adequate oxygen saturation and prevent respiratory failure.

🫁 Oxygen therapy reduces work of breathing and supports vital organ perfusion.

🫁 Continuous monitoring ensures early detection of respiratory deterioration.

🫁 Fever increases metabolic oxygen demand and fluid loss.

🫁 Antipyretics help lower temperature and reduce respiratory workload.

🫁 Fever control improves comfort, feeding tolerance, and energy conservation.

🫁 Reduced metabolic demand helps prevent worsening hypoxia.

🫁 Antipyretics are supportive, not curative, but essential in RSV management.

🫁 RSV leads to tachypnea, poor feeding, and insensible fluid loss.

🫁 Oral hydration helps prevent dehydration and maintains mucosal moisture.

🫁 Adequate fluids thin respiratory secretions, improving airway clearance.

🫁 Hydration supports circulatory stability and recovery.

🫁 Oral fluids are encouraged only if the child can safely tolerate them.

🫁 Incorrect Options :

❌ Place the child in a prone position

🫁 Prone positioning increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

🫁 Upright or supine positioning with head elevation is safer and improves ventilation.

❌ Administer amoxicillin

🫁 RSV is a viral infection, not bacterial.

🫁 Antibiotics provide no benefit unless a secondary bacterial infection is present.

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Answer 8

Correct Answers:

Move the infant to a room with another child with RSV

Rationale :

🧪 RSV spreads through direct contact and droplets.

🧪 Cohorting prevents exposure to uninfected children.

🧪 Children with the same infection may safely share a room.

🧪 This conserves isolation resources.

🧪 Contact precautions remain necessary.

🧪 Incorrect Options :

• Initiate airborne precautions

🧪 RSV is not airborne.

🧪 Airborne precautions are unnecessary.

• Move the infant to a negative-pressure room

🧪 Negative-pressure rooms are for airborne diseases like TB.

🧪 RSV does not require this level of isolation.

• Leave the infant in the present room because RSV is not contagious

🧪 RSV is highly contagious.

🧪 This places others at risk.

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Answer 9

Correct Answers:

Suction the infant's nasal secretions using a bulb syringe to clear the airway

Rationale :

🚨 Infants are obligate nasal breathers.

🚨 Copious secretions cause airway obstruction.

🚨 Suctioning immediately improves air exchange.

🚨 Clearing the airway reduces work of breathing.

🚨 Airway management always takes highest priority.

🚨 Incorrect Options (2 points each):

• Immediately initiate intravenous fluids

🚨 Fluids do not address airway obstruction.

🚨 Airway stabilization comes first.

• Place the infant in mother’s lap and offer a bottle

🚨 Feeding increases risk of aspiration.

🚨 The infant is too distressed to feed safely.

• Administer a prescribed antipyretic

🚨 Fever control does not relieve airway obstruction.

🚨 This is not the priority action.

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Answer 10

Correct Answers:

Albuterol

Rationale :

💨 Albuterol is a short-acting beta₂-agonist (SABA).

💨 It rapidly causes bronchodilation.

💨 SABAs are the first-line treatment for acute bronchospasm.

💨 Onset of action occurs within minutes.

💨 It relieves wheezing and dyspnea quickly.

💨 Incorrect Options (2 points each):

• Fluticasone

💨 This is an inhaled corticosteroid.

💨 It is used for long-term control, not acute relief.

• Ipratropium

💨 It is an adjunct medication.

💨 It is not first-line alone for acute attacks.

• Salmeterol

💨 This is a long-acting beta₂-agonist.

💨 It is contraindicated for acute asthma episodes.

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ADRN 210 Dudley PEDS Exam Test 3

No.

1 :
The parents of a school-age child with ADHD ask how to best manage aggressive or impulsive behaviors. What is the best nursing intervention?

2 :
A pediatric nurse is developing a care plan to reduce the risk of infection in hospitalized children by targeting the susceptible host link in the chain of infection. Which intervention is most appropriate to break the chain at this link?

3 :
The client has a heavily draining wound for which there is an order to change the dressing every 4 hours. The nurse becomes busy and does not change the dressing as ordered. Which link in the chain of infection has the nurse allowed to flourish?

4 :
A mother brings her 8-year-old son for evaluation because of a rash on his lower leg. Which finding would support the suspicion that the child has Lyme disease?

5 :
The nurse is performing a physical examination on a 9-year-old boy who has experienced a tick bite on his lower leg and is suspected of having Lyme disease. Which assessment finding would the nurse expect to find?

6 :
After teaching a mother how to remove a tick from her 6-year-old boy's arm, the nurse determines that additional teaching is needed when the mother makes what statement?

7 :
A nurse is caring for a child who has RSV bronchiolitis. Which of the following should the nurse anticipate? Select all that apply

8 :
A nurse is caring for an infant with bronchiolitis. Diagnostic tests have confirmed respiratory syncytial virus. Based on this finding, which of the following would be the most appropriate nursing action?

9 :
A 5-month-old infant with RSV bronchiolitis is in respiratory distress. The baby has copious secretions, increased work of breathing. cyanosis, and a respiratory rate of 78. What is the most appropriate initial nursing intervention?

10 :
A group of nursing students are reviewing the medications used to treat asthma. The students demonstrate understanding of the Information when they identify which agent as appropriate for an acute episode of bronchospasm?

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ADRN 210 Dudley PEDS Exam Test 3

No.

1 : The parents of a school-age child with ADHD ask how to best manage aggressive or impulsive behaviors. What is the best nursing intervention?

2 : A pediatric nurse is developing a care plan to reduce the risk of infection in hospitalized children by targeting the susceptible host link in the chain of infection. Which intervention is most appropriate to break the chain at this link?

3 : The client has a heavily draining wound for which there is an order to change the dressing every 4 hours. The nurse becomes busy and does not change the dressing as ordered. Which link in the chain of infection has the nurse allowed to flourish?

4 : A mother brings her 8-year-old son for evaluation because of a rash on his lower leg. Which finding would support the suspicion that the child has Lyme disease?

5 : The nurse is performing a physical examination on a 9-year-old boy who has experienced a tick bite on his lower leg and is suspected of having Lyme disease. Which assessment finding would the nurse expect to find?

6 : After teaching a mother how to remove a tick from her 6-year-old boy's arm, the nurse determines that additional teaching is needed when the mother makes what statement?

7 : A nurse is caring for a child who has RSV bronchiolitis. Which of the following should the nurse anticipate? Select all that apply

8 : A nurse is caring for an infant with bronchiolitis. Diagnostic tests have confirmed respiratory syncytial virus. Based on this finding, which of the following would be the most appropriate nursing action?

9 : A 5-month-old infant with RSV bronchiolitis is in respiratory distress. The baby has copious secretions, increased work of breathing. cyanosis, and a respiratory rate of 78. What is the most appropriate initial nursing intervention?

10 : A group of nursing students are reviewing the medications used to treat asthma. The students demonstrate understanding of the Information when they identify which agent as appropriate for an acute episode of bronchospasm?

1 :
The parents of a school-age child with ADHD ask how to best manage aggressive or impulsive behaviors. What is the best nursing intervention?

2 :
A pediatric nurse is developing a care plan to reduce the risk of infection in hospitalized children by targeting the susceptible host link in the chain of infection. Which intervention is most appropriate to break the chain at this link?

3 :
The client has a heavily draining wound for which there is an order to change the dressing every 4 hours. The nurse becomes busy and does not change the dressing as ordered. Which link in the chain of infection has the nurse allowed to flourish?

4 :
A mother brings her 8-year-old son for evaluation because of a rash on his lower leg. Which finding would support the suspicion that the child has Lyme disease?

5 :
The nurse is performing a physical examination on a 9-year-old boy who has experienced a tick bite on his lower leg and is suspected of having Lyme disease. Which assessment finding would the nurse expect to find?

6 :
After teaching a mother how to remove a tick from her 6-year-old boy's arm, the nurse determines that additional teaching is needed when the mother makes what statement?

7 :
A nurse is caring for a child who has RSV bronchiolitis. Which of the following should the nurse anticipate? Select all that apply

8 :
A nurse is caring for an infant with bronchiolitis. Diagnostic tests have confirmed respiratory syncytial virus. Based on this finding, which of the following would be the most appropriate nursing action?

9 :
A 5-month-old infant with RSV bronchiolitis is in respiratory distress. The baby has copious secretions, increased work of breathing. cyanosis, and a respiratory rate of 78. What is the most appropriate initial nursing intervention?

10 :
A group of nursing students are reviewing the medications used to treat asthma. The students demonstrate understanding of the Information when they identify which agent as appropriate for an acute episode of bronchospasm?