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Here Are The Pediatric Nursing Bullets
Here Are The Pediatric Nursing Bullets
Pediatric HIV
Roseola
Tractions
Various diseases afflicting the pediatric clients
Bullets
Here are the pediatric nursing bullets:
2. To achieve postural drainage in an infant, place a pillow on the nurse’s lap and
lay the infant across it.
3. A child with cystic fibrosis should eat more calories, protein, vitamins, and
minerals than a child without the disease.
4. Infants subsisting on cow’s milk only don’t receive a sufficient amount of iron
(ferrous sulfate), which will eventually result in iron deficiency anemia.
6. An infant usually triples his birth weight by the end of his first year.
10. Papules, vesicles, and crust are all present at the same time in the early phase
of chickenpox.
12. A serving size of a food is usually one (1) tablespoon for each year of age.
16. Roseola appears as discrete rose-pink macules that first appear on the trunk
and that fade when pressure is applied.
Ninety-ninety traction
18. One sign of developmental dysplasia is limping during ambulation.
21. Classic signs of shaken baby syndrome are seizures, slow apical pulse difficulty
breathing, and retinal hemorrhage.
22. An infant born to an HIV-positive mother will usually receive AZT (zidovudine)
for the first 6 weeks of life.
24. Blood pressure in the arms and legs is essentially the same in infants.
27. Before feeding an infant any fluid that has been warmed, test a drop of the
liquid on your own skin to prevent scalding the infant.
29. Although microwaving food and fluids isn’t recommended for infants, it’s
common in the United States. Therefore the family should be taught to test the
temperature of the food or fluid against their own skin before allowing it to be
consumed by the infant.
30. The most adequate diet for an infant in the first 6 months of life is breast milk.
31. An infant can usually chew food by 7 months, hold spoon by 9 months, and
drink fluid from a cup by one year of age.
32. Choking from mechanical obstruction is the leading cause of death (by
suffocation) for infants younger than 1 year of age.
33. Failure to thrive is a term used to describe an infant who falls below the fifth
percentile for weight and height on a standard measurement chart.
37. Certain hazards present increased risk of harm to children and occur more
often at different ages. For infants, more falls, burns, and suffocation occur; for
toddlers, there are more burns, poisoning, and drowning for preschoolers, more
playground equipment accidents, choking, poisoning, and drowning; and for
adolescents, more automobile accidents, drowning, fires, and firearm accidents.
38. A child in Bryant’s traction who’s younger than age 3 or weighs less than 30 lb
(13.6 kg) should have the buttocks slightly elevated and clear or the bed. The knees
should be slightly flexed, and the legs should be extended at a right angle to the
body.
Bryant’s Traction
39. The body provides the traction mechanism.