The pediatric nurse is assessing a 5-year-old for developmental milestones. Which assessment tool should the nurse use?
A.
CHEOPS scale
B.
Denver II screening tool
C.
FLACC scale
D.
OLD CAT questions
ANS: B
The Denver II assesses personal-social, fine motor-adaptive, gross motor, and language skills to gauge performance on developmental milestones. The CHEOPS and FLACC scales are used to assess pain. The mnemonic OLD CAT is used to obtain a patient's pain history and includes questions on onset, location, duration, character, aggravating and alleviating factors, and timing.
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