1. The nurse is caring for a 10-year-old child with growth hormone deficiency which therapy would you anticipate to be prescribed for the child?

2. Short-term aldosterone provocation

3. Injections of growth hormone

4. Oral administration of somatotropin

5. Long-term blocking of beta cells

6. Which statement by the nurse is most likely to gain the cooperation of a young child?

7. Do you want to take your medicine now?

8. It is time for you to drink your medicine now

9. If you take this medicine, I can get you a popsicle

10. If you don’t drink this medicine, you will need to get a shot

11. A parent of school-aged child is distressed to learn of the child is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The parent asks the nurse how this could happen because no one in the family has diabetes. Which response is most accurate?

12. Diabetes mellitus type 2 is caused by the pancreas not making enough insulin

13. This is disorder usually occurs when inadequate calories are ingested on a regular basis.

14. Because this disorder is genetic, someone in the family will eventually develop the illness

15. This disorder is associated with metabolic disturbances that result in insulin resistance

16. This disorder is associated with overweight and eating a diet high in in fats and carbohydrate.

17. A terminally ill child is awake at 2 AM and continues to put on the call light. What should the nurse do regarding this child’s behavior?

18. Provide with a sleeping aid

19. Encourage the child to sleep

20. Sit with the child until sleep comes

21. Put on the television and dim the light

• A young child is brought to the emergency department with severe dehydration secondary to acute diarrhea and vomiting. Therapeutic management of this child will begin with which nursing intervention?

1. Intravenous fluid

2. Oral rehydration solution (ORS)

3. Clear liquids, 1 to 2 ounces at a time

4. Administration of antidiarrheal medication

• The parent of a child with acute glomerulonephritis ask the nurse to explain the cause of the disease. What organism should the nurse instruct the parents as being the cause for the disorder?

1. Group B streptococci

2. One of the rhinoviruses

3. Staphylococcus viridans

4. Group A beta-hemolytic streptococci

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