Chapter 22 School-Age Children and Adolescents

Chapter 22  School-Age Children and Adolescents

Complete Chapter Questions And Answers
 

Sample Questions

1.
When providing safety education for parents of school-age children, the community health nurse would focus interventions on which of the following as the priority?
A)
Motor vehicle safety
B)
Water safety
C)
Fire safety
D)
Poisoning prevention
Ans:
A

Feedback:

For the 1- to 9-year-old age group, motor vehicle/traffic injury, drowning, and fire/burn injuries were the top three causes of injury death. For the 10- to 19-year-old age group, motor vehicle/traffic injuries, drowning, and poisoning are the three leading causes of injury death. Thus the priority would be to focus interventions on motor vehicle safety. Although water and fire safety and poisoning prevention would be important, motor vehicle safety would be most important.

2.
A community health nurse is presenting a program to a local elementary parent–teacher association on the topic of pediculosis. The nurse determines that the group needs additional teaching when they identify which of the following as a likely mode of transmission?
A)
Coming into contact with an animal
B)
Combing hair with another’s comb
C)
Using a towel of an infected child
D)
Sleeping in a friend’s bed who had lice
Ans:
A

Feedback:

Head lice are most often transmitted by direct contact (head-to-head) or may be passed from infected to uninfected children through shared items such as combs and brushes, hats, scarves, sheets, and towels (called fomites). Contrary to some popular myths, lice do not fly or jump, and they cannot be contracted from animals—they live only on humans.

3.
A community health nurse who is participating in a nutritional screening program with school-age children measures their body mass index (BMI). The majority of children fall within the 45th to 65th percentile for their age. The nurse would classify these children as which of the following?
A)
Underweight
B)
Healthy weight
C)
At risk for overweight
D)
Overweight
Ans:
B

Feedback:

A BMI between the 5th and 95th percentile for age is considered healthy weight. Underweight refers to a BMI below the 5th percentile. At risk for overweight refers to children with a BMI between the 85th and 94th percentile. Overweight refers to children with a BMI equal to or greater than the 95th percentile.

4.
Which of the following measures would be most appropriate for a community health nurse to include when developing programs to address childhood obesity?
A)
Encouraging television watching for about 3 hours per day
B)
Suggesting that families eat less meals together at home
C)
Urging participation in physical activity for 30 minutes per day
D)
Limiting the intake of unsaturated oils in cooking
Ans:
C

Feedback:

Research has demonstrated an association between poor eating habits and physical inactivity. Low levels of physical activity and more than 2 hours of watching television per day were found to be predictors of overweight status in a large longitudinal study of children. Therefore, interventions should focus on increasing levels of physical activity and encouraging limited television for school-age children, encouraging families to eat more meals together at home, advocating for increased physical education in the school setting, and for more safe recreational opportunities in all neighborhoods. In addition, healthy eating habits such as using unsaturated oils in cooking need to be stressed.