Toddler Sick Visit Pediatrics
A preschool teacher calls the hospital and wants to introduce the concept of a hospital to her
preschool class in case they ever get sick and need to be admitted. What resources could the
child life specialist provide for this group to aid in their learning? Select all that apply. -
✔✔Provide a room for the class with hospital gowns, masks and equipment used on children.
Tour the hospital, including the playrooms on the pediatric floors.
Tell the children that hospitals are places for sick people to come and sometimes they don't
leave.
Let the children lie in the beds, use the call lights and practice being a patient.
A nurse caring for a 5-year-old who had abdominal surgery yesterday is trying to teach the child
how to take deep breaths. The best way that the nurse can accomplish this is by: - ✔✔using a
pinwheel.
The nurse is caring for a preoperative pediatric client. What would it be best for the nurse to do
with this client? - ✔✔Determine how much the child knows and is capable of understanding.
Which approach by the nurse best demonstrates the correct way to prepare a Hispanic child for
a planned hospital admission? - ✔✔Allow the child to put on surgical attire and "operate" on a
doll to teach what will be happening.
A hospitalized 5-year-old child tells the nurse, "I am lonely and bored, and it's not fair I cannot
see other people more." The child is on transmission-based precautions. Which action by the
