The nurse is teaching a group of parents about gross motor development of the toddler. Which behavior is an example of the normal gross motor skill of a toddler?

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: Toddlers (1-3 years) typically develop gross motor skills like pulling a toy behind them, reflecting coordination and strength in walking, a milestone by 18-24 months. Copying lines or building tall towers involves fine motor skills, while broad-jumping emerges later, around 3-4 years. Nurses educate parents on these norms to track development, reassuring them that pulling toys aligns with expected physical progress, distinguishing it from more advanced or precise tasks.

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: Feeling less masculine post-surgery is sexuality (A) sexual identity shift, per definition. Body image (B) is body view, self-esteem (C) worth, role performance (D) roles not gender-specific. A fits sexual self-perception, making it correct.

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: Holding a rattle is a 4-month milestone; others develop later.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: An irregular radial pulse requires apical assessment for accuracy, as chest auscultation better detects rhythm issues. Longer radial or carotid checks are less precise. Nurses confirm this for cardiac evaluation.

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: Choosing treatment from assessment is decision-making (A) informed choice, per definition. Management (B) organizes, promotion (C) well-being, informatics (D) tech not choice-specific. A fits the nurse's reasoned action for Mr. Gary, making it correct.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Lawrence Kohlberg's moral development theory (1950s) hinges on mutual trust e.g., fairness learned through reciprocal bonds. Freud's psychoanalysis, Erikson's stages, and Peters' principles differ. Kohlberg's stages premoral (obedience), conventional (norms), post-conventional (ethics) explain moral growth, influencing nursing ethics on trust-based patient care, like respecting autonomy in decisions.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Opioid narcotic analgesics, like Mr. Gary took, commonly cause constipation (C) by slowing gut motility, per pharmacology. Diarrhea (A) is opposite, tachycardia (B) and hypertension (D) less typical opioids often slow heart rate, lower BP. Constipation's prevalence in opioid use (e.g., morphine) makes C the expected side effect, aligning with clinical observations.

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: Anne Boykin and Savina Schoenhofer's Grand Theory of Nursing as Caring, from the 1990s, posits all humans as caring, with nursing responding to this ‘moral imperative' e.g., aiding a stranger instinctively. Unlike Erickson's modeling, Peterson's humanism, or Benner's skill focus, it's a grand theory emphasizing universal caring, shaping ethical nursing practice and education.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: Chest pain with inspiration (pleuritic) supports pulmonary embolism, from infarcted lung tissue absent breath sounds suggest pneumothorax, wheezing fits asthma, and low fever is nonspecific. Nurses report this, aiding rapid diagnosis, vital for this respiratory emergency.