The nurse working on a pediatric unit is speaking to a child who is terminally ill. The child is describing her illness in terms of mutilation to her body. The nurse understands this to be representative of the development of which age group?
1. Adolescents
2. Preschoolers
3. School-age children
4. Infants
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Rationale 1: Adolescents have a mature understanding of death, but the normal developmental milestones of adolescence add to their problems in facing a terminal illness.
Rationale 2: Preschool-age children can see their bodies deteriorate and feel the effects of medications used during disease progression and treatment.
Rationale 3: School-age children have subtle fears about body integrity and anxieties about the seriousness of their illness.
Rationale 4: Infants and toddlers are not actually aware of death, but they are aware of and react to changes in normal routines and the behavior of their parents.
Global Rationale:
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a. Kidneys and adrenals b. Lungs and liver c. Eyes and ears d. Gastrointestinal system
The nurse is completing an endocrine-focused health assessment interview with an older adult. What finding should the nurse suspect is related to an age-related change in the patient's thyroid function?
1. inability to tolerate heat and cold 2. indigestion and intolerance of fatty foods 3. increased facial hair 4. enlarged nose, hands, and feet
The adnexa of the uterus are composed of the:
a. corpus and cervix. b. fallopian tubes and ovaries. c. uterosacral and broad ligaments. d. vagina and fundus.
Which of the following is not a research tradition widely used by qualitative nurse researchers?
A) Experimental B) Phenomenologic C) Ethnographic D) Grounded theory