A school nurse is screening an 11-year-old child for idiopathic scoliosis.

Which of the following instructions should the nurse give the child for this examination?

A nurse in a prenatal clinic overhears a newly licensed nurse discussing conception with a client.

Which of the following statements by the newly licensed nurse requires intervention by the nurse?

A nurse is collecting data from a child who is descending stairs by placing both feet on each step and holding on to the railing.

This behavior is developmentally appropriate at which of the following ages?

A nurse is selecting a toy for a 7-month-old infant.

Which of the following toys should the nurse choose?

A nurse is collecting data from a client who has skeletal traction.

Which of the following findings should the nurse identify as an indication of infection at the pin sites?

An infant suffered from a fracture of the humerus and requires traction that uses pins, wires, and tongs.

What type of traction is this?

A nurse is reinforcing nutritional teaching with a client who is at 8 weeks of gestation.

Which of the following statements should the nurse include?

A nurse is collecting data from a 10-month-old infant.

Which of the following findings should the nurse report to the provider?

A nurse is collecting data from a client who is 14 hr postpartum.

The nurse notes: breasts soft; fundus firm, slightly deviated to the right; moderate lochia rubra; temperature 37.7° C (100° F); pulse rate 88/min; respiratory rate 18/min.

Which of the following actions should the nurse perform?

The nurse is working with a group of caregivers of school-aged children discussing fractures.

The nurse explains that if the fragments of the fractured bone are separated, the fracture is said to be:

A nurse is preparing to administer prophylactic eye ointment to a newborn to prevent ophthalmia neonatorum.

Which of the following medications should the nurse anticipate administering?