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CPN terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Beneficence | Promote good |
| Nonmaleficence | Do no harm |
| Justice | Treat all fairly and equally |
| Cephalocaudally | Head to toe |
| Proximodistally | Trunk to extremities |
| Chronological age | Years or months since birth date |
| Mental age | Level of cognitive function |
| Adjusted/corrected age | Chronological age minus number of weeks born prematurely =< 37 weeks. Used 1st 2 years of life |
| Birth weight largely measures | Maternal nutrition |
| Magical thinking | Things happen as punishment. Thinks thoughts affect events |
| Imaginative play | Children pretend |
| Dramatic play | Associated with dress-up or wearing of caregivers clothes and shoes |
| Cooperative play | Involves common goals, collaboration and rules |
| Team play | Peer interaction and rules that are often enforced by an authoritative figure |
| Isotonic | Equal sodium and water losses with normal sodium level |
| Hypotonic | Sodium loss > water loss |
| Hypertonic | Water > sodium loss |
| McBurney's point | Right lower quadrant |
| Uncongugated/Indirect bilirubin | Before the liver |
| Conjugated/direct | Inside the liver |
| Kernicterus | Serum bilingual deposit in brain cells |
| Fat soluble vitamins | A, D, E, K |
| Ketogenic diet | High fat low carb. Meals balanced proportions of fat, protein, and carbs |
| Meningocele | Protrusion of saclike cyst containing meninges but not spinal cord |
| Myelomeningocele | Incomplete closure of the posterior portion of the vertebrae laminae sacred containing CSF, meninges, and portion of the spinal cord |
| Restraints | Any method, physical or mechanical which restricts a person's movement, physical activity, or normal access to his or her body |
| Live vaccines | MMR Varicella Nasal influenza Rotavirus |
| Tinea capitus | Lesions in scalp |
| Tinea corporis | Lesions on body |
| Tinea cruis | "Jock itch" like corporis, pruritic |
| Tinea pedis | "Athletes foot" lesions may be fissures between toes or patches with vesicles |
| Child neglect | Failure of a parent or person legally responsible for the child's welfare to provide for the child's basic needs and adequate level of care |
| Echolalia | Meaningless repetition of words and phrases |
| Tolerance | Neuro adaptation to the effects of chronically administered opioid increasing the need or more frequent doses to achieve initial effects of the drug |
| Addiction | Consistent pattern of dysfunctional opioid use. Psychological craving |
| rooting | stroke cheek will turn toward and start to suck |
| babinski reflex | stroke outer sole of foot upward causing hyperextension of toes |
| palmar grasp | touch palm fingers will curl |
| plantar grasp | fingers placed at base of toes, toes will curl down |
| moro | "startle" |
| moro | loud noise or sudden movement infant will extend limb and spread fingers then retract limb |
| stepping | hold infant upright with feet touching table infant will move legas and feet |
| tonic neck | "fencing" |
| tonic neck | supine with head turned to one side infant will flex arm and leg on opposite side of body and will extend the arm and leg of the other |
| Russell's sign | Calluses of the knuckles or abrasions on does I'm of the hand |
| Myxedematous skin changes | Dry skin, puffiness around eyes, sparse hair |
| Acanthosis nigricans | Cutaneous think enjoy and hyperpigmentation |
| Barlow's sign | Click felt when abducted hip is flexed 90 degrees |
| Ortolani's click | Click felt at hip moved addiction to abduction |
| Telescoping | Shortened limb on the affected leg |
| Trendelenburg's sign |