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Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing 11th Edition Test Bank
Chapter 19 : Family-Centered Care of the Child During Illness and Hospitalization Questions
Question 1 of 5
A preschooler is found digging up a pet bird that was recently buried after it died. What is the best explanation for this behavior?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Preschoolers struggle with the permanence of death and may dig up the pet to confirm its presence, a normal developmental response. This is not a morbid preoccupation, not about ghosts, and does not immediately indicate a need for counseling unless persistent.
Question 2 of 5
At which age do most children have an adult concept of death as being inevitable, universal, and irreversible?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: By ages 9 to 11, children develop an adult-like understanding of death as inevitable, universal, and irreversible. Younger children have less mature concepts, and adolescents have a fully mature understanding.
Question 3 of 5
What statement is most descriptive of a school-age childs reaction to death?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: School-age children are curious about the physiological and naturalistic aspects of death, such as funerals and burials. They understand concepts like ?forever,? do not typically imagine the deceased as alive, and spiritual explanations are more common in adolescents.
Question 4 of 5
At which developmental period do children have the most difficulty coping with death, particularly if it is their own?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Adolescents, with their mature understanding of death, struggle most with their own mortality due to guilt, shame, and identity challenges.
Toddlers fear separation, preschoolers feel guilt, and school-age children fear the unknown, but these are less intense than adolescent struggles.
Question 5 of 5
An 8-year-old girl has been uncooperative and angry since the diagnosis of cancer was made. Her parents tell the nurse that they do not know what to do because she is always so mad at us. What nursing action is most appropriate at this time?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Helping parents manage the child?s anger constructively addresses her loss of control and promotes communication and coping. Explaining anger is unhelpful, finding the cause may be difficult for the child, and ignoring anger dismisses her emotional needs.