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ATI Nurs 150 Pediatric Final Exam 0924 Cohort Questions
Extract:
An infant
Question 1 of 5
A nurse is preparing to measure an infant's vital signs. The nurse should use which of the following sites to assess a heart rate?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: The apical pulse at the heart’s apex is the most accurate site for assessing an infant’s heart rate due to their small size and pulse strength.
Extract:
A child who has celiac disease
Question 2 of 5
A nurse is providing teaching to a parent of a child who has celiac disease. The nurse should include which of the following food choices for this child?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Rice is gluten-free and safe for celiac disease. Wheat and barley contain gluten and must be avoided. PRIOHOU is a mnemonic for gluten-free foods, but rice is the correct specific choice here.
Extract:
A group of females who are pregnant
Question 3 of 5
A nurse is teaching about neural tube defects to a group of females who are pregnant. Which of the following disease processes should the nurse include as an example of a neural tube defect?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Spina bifida is a neural tube defect due to incomplete neural tube closure. Cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, and hydrocephalus are not NTDs.
Extract:
A school-age child with white flakes that don’t brush off the hair and a rash on the back of the neck
Question 4 of 5
A school nurse is assessing a school-age child and notices white flakes that don't brush off the hair and a rash on the back of the child's neck. The nurse should suspect which of the following disorders?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Tinea capitis, a fungal scalp infection, causes white flakes that adhere to hair and a rash that may extend to the neck. Pediculosis involves nits, impetigo causes crusts, and folliculitis causes follicular bumps.
Extract:
An adolescent boy with slow onset of recurrent low-grade fever, fatigue, weakness, joint and muscle aches, loss of appetite, weight loss, diaphoresis, new heart murmur, splenomegaly, petechiae, splinter hemorrhages, and Osler nodes
Question 5 of 5
Which of the following Acquired Heart Diseases does this best represent?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: The symptoms, including fever, murmur, and embolic phenomena like splinter hemorrhages and Osler nodes, are classic for infective endocarditis. Tetralogy of Fallot is congenital, rheumatic fever lacks these embolic signs, and pulmonary hypertension does not present this way.