A 4-year-old girl is brought to the emergency department. She has a ‘frog-like’ croaking sound on inspiration, is agitated, and drooling. She insists on sitting upright. The nurse should do which of the following?

A nurse notes that the specific gravity of urine is lower in infants than in older children. The nurse recognizes that the rationale for this difference is related to:

igns indicating vision impairment in a child (Select All That Apply: SATA):

The mother of a 6-year-old child who has recently had surgery for removal of his tonsils and adenoids complains that they have begun sucking their thumb again. The nurse caring for the child should assure the mother that this is a normal response for a child who has undergone surgery, and that is a coping mechanism that children sometimes use called:

The nurse has admitted a child with tricuspid atresia. The nurse would expect which initial lab result?

Expected symptoms in an infant with pyloric stenosis:

A child has epistaxis while at school. Which intervention by the school nurse is appropriate?

A nurse is planning care for a child with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Which nursing diagnosis is the highest priority for this child?

While doing a newborn assessment, the nurse finds the infants blood pressure in the arms is much higher than in the legs. The nurse suspects that the infant has

An anxious and irritable preschooler arrives in the ER, refusing to lie down to be examined. The child sits, leans forward in onto the hand, and drools saliva. The child is warm to the touch, is using accessory muscles to breath, and pale in color. The nurse should: Place in the correct order from highest to lowest priority (assume you can only do one at a time).

The telephone triage nurse at a pediatric clinic knows each call is important. Which call would require attentiveness from the nurse because of an increased risk for mortality?