Which toys should a nurse provide to promote imaginative play for a 3-year-old hospitalized child (select all that apply)?
a. Plastic telephone
b. Hand puppets
c. Jigsaw puzzle (100 pieces)
d. Farm animals and equipment
e. Jump rope
ANS: A, B, D
To promote imaginative play for a 3-year-old child, the nurse should provide: dress-up clothes, dolls and dollhouses, housekeeping toys, play-store toys, telephones, farm animals and equipment, village sets, trains, trucks, cars, planes, hand puppets, and medical kits. A 100-piece jigsaw puzzle and a jump rope would be appropriate for a young, school-age child but not a 3-year-old child.
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