NURS 6541 Midterm Exam Review Week 1 to 6

NURS 6541MidtermExam Review (Week 1-6)

Week 1: Growth and Development

• Safety with Car Seats – remain rear facing for as long as possible until they reach weight or height of seat.
• Vaccination Schedules and contraindications –
• Child Abuse mandatory reporting–any reason to believe that there is abuse or neglect, you do not have to have burden of proof,
• Failure to thrive causes
• Breastfed baby’s possible health problems
• Normal birth weights and growth–birth to 6 months growth ½ - 1 inch a month and gain 5-7 ounces a week. Double birth weight by 5 months
• Normal reflexes in newborns
• Language development issues
• Fine motor skills
• Signs of puberty
• Piaget developmental stages
• Normal vital signs for various age groups
• Congenital infection with cytomegalovirus, complications of prematurity
• Crawling (7-10 months), sitting (4-7 months without support 8 months), rolling over (tummy to back early as 4 months – 5-6 months back to front), walking milestones (9-12 months)

Week 2: Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers

• Normal  premature infant growth
• Protein calorie malnutrition
• Small size differentials
• Poor weight gain differentials
• Well Child Visit standards for these age groups
• Normal sequencing of development in a toddler
• Treatment for teething
• Early interventions services for speech
• Sleep refusal
• Bowel training issues
• Breath holding
• Bilingual children and expectations
• Vaccination schedule
• Normal sleep patterns
• Correct order for introduction of food
• Screening for TB
• Normal breastfeeding schedules

Week 3: School-Age Children and Adolescents

• Drug Screening adolescents
• Vaccination catch up schedule
• Routine lab screenings
• Anticipatory guidance for each age group
• Bedwetting
• Erickson’s stages of development
• Safety concerns
• Bullying
• Puberty
• Adolescent substance abuse
• Lab screenings in adolescents
• Female peak height velocity

Week 4: HEENT

• Differential diagnoses for patients with HEENT disorders
• Various treatment options for common HEENT disorders
• Evaluate pattern recognition in patient diagnoses

Week 5: Respiratory, Cardiovascular and Genetic Disorders

• RSV
• Pneumonia–bacterial, mycobacterial, viral, fungal, or parasitic
• Bronchitis
• Asthma
• Croup–acute inflammation, caused by parainfluenza virus type 1 infection
• Bronchiolitis – acute viral infection of lower resp tract
• Foreign body aspiration
• Epiglottitis
• Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy
• Down syndrome - Trisomy 21
• Edwards syndrome – Trisomy 18
• Turner syndrome
• Fragile x syndrome–genetic abnormality of the X chromosome that causes intellectual disability and behavioral disorders. Abnormality of FMR1 gene unstable triplet repeat expansion; Fragile X syndrome is not a chromosome abnormality
• XYY male
• Klinefelter syndrome
• Cystic fibrosis

Week 6: Behavioral and Mental Health Issues

• Child abuse
• Adhd–symptoms can appear btwn 3-6 and continue
• Autism
• Dyslexia – learning disorder involving problems in reading, mathematics, spelling, written expression or handwriting
• Fetal alcohol syndrome – alcohol exposure in utero increases risk for Spontaneous AB, decrease birth weight,
• Depression