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Pediatric Focus
Pediatric Assessment
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a Chief Complaint? | Why the patient came in to the doctors office. |
| What is an example of an Conculding question? | Is there anything elas I need to know |
| When assessing a child; How are you suppose to be? | Eye level, Relaxed, and Calm |
| Whaen does an childs assessment begin? | When they walk in the door |
| What is Anthropmetrics? | Height,weight, head & chest circumference |
| What is an Easy temermant? | The child can walk into any situation and own it |
| What is a Difficult temperament? | child has hard time adjusting to new situations |
| What is a Slow to warm up temperament? | child withdraws on 1st exsposure |
| What is the (DDST) Denver II Developmental Test? | A test for the childs developmental delayed |
| How do you do a IQ test? | development agedivided by chronological age times 100. |
| What is th 1 thing you look for in all parts of your assessment? | Symmetry |
| WHat is Mottling? | A normal, marbling,splotchy appearance of the skin due to fluctuations in circulation. |
| If a child comes in because they are sick, What do you get? | The Day History |
| What happens when the child is Hyperbilirubinemia? | they appear Jaundiced (yellow) |
| WHat is a Halequin Sign? | One side of the body is red and the other side is not due to cirulation fluctuations; its normal |
| What are Mongolia spots? | Gray spots found on a child at birth |
| What is Venix and What does it tell you? | cheese like white lubricant that is sometimes found on a baby at birth. If the baby is full term |
| WHat are Fontanels? | Soft Spots in a babies head. |
| When does the Anterior Fontanels Close up? | by 18 months |
| When does the Posterior Fontanels Close up? | by 2 months |
| WHat is the normal assesssment of a Fontanel? | soft and flat |
| What are Suture lines? | where the bones of the skull come together or overlap. But never Seperate |
| What is Molding? | when the suture lines overlap in the cranium |
| WHat is a Caput succedaneum? | A soft localized area of the scalp due to a vaccum extractor or the baby being in the birth canal for a long period of time. |
| WHat is a Cephalohematoma? | a collection of blood between the cranial bones in the periosteal membranes. |
| What is a craniotabe? | A softened cranial bone that will close in 1 or 2 months |
| What test is done for visual Acuity? | A Snellen Test |
| What test is known as the "Cover Test"for vision? | The Hirschberg Test |
| WHat is an Obliget breather? | a infant less than 2 months old with uncoordinated breathing |
| What are you looking for when you examine the baby's mouth? | pink gums, tongue is midline when they stick out there tongue and smile symmetry. |
| What do a nurse look for in a chest exam? | Symmetry when the chest rise ans fall |
| What would a nurse not want to find in a childs gentorectal area? | redness, drainage, and swelling |
| When assessing the back what does the nurse want to find? | a straight spine |
| What is the most refined senses a baby has? | touch |
| WHat is a Newborn? | first 12-24 hr of life |
| What is a neonate? | first 30 day s of life |
| What is the first priority in every baby? | Respiratory |
| What is the nomal respiratory rate for a newborn? | 30-60 bpm |
| What happens if a baby has Acrocyanosis? | its normal for the 1st 24 hrs of life |
| WHat is the normal newborn heart rate? | 110-160 bpm |
| Is something wrong if the baby is crying and their heart rate is 200bpm? | nothing is wrong its normal when crying |
| True or False: Are transient murmurs normal during the new born period? | True. Only for the 1st 24 hrs |
| Does newborns have acute vision? | No |
| What colors should be used for a babies mobile? | Red/black or black/white. Faces are most interesting |
| What is the average head cm size foe a baby? | 32-37 cm |
| True or False: Chest circumfrance is 2cm less than their head cm. | true |
| What is the normal baby temp? | 97.6 to 97.8 |
| Why is the babies 1st temp taken recatally? | To check for patency |
| WHat is the normal baby pulse? | 120 to 140 bpm |
| When you are doing vital signs on a babies and infants; how long does the assessment last? | 1 full minute |
| Which age group is the most difficult to perform assessments on? | toddlers and preschoolers. give them options |
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