A 30-month-old boy with acute bronchitis and respiratory distress is admitted to the pediatric unit for croup (mist tent treatment)
Choose the intervention by the nurse that is developmentally most appropriate when the child refuses to stay in the tent.
a. Take away his favorite toy until he de-cides to remain in the tent.
b. Tell him a story about how a little boy died because he did not stay in the tent.
c. Medicate him with a sedative to reduce anxiety and calm him.
d. Instruct his mother to play a board game with him while sitting in the tent.
D
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