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College of Nursing
SY 2010-2011
1ST SEMESTER
MIDTERM EXAM
MCN
General Instructions:
1. Read questions carefully.
2. Strictly follow Instructions.
3. Write your answers on the answer sheet provided.
4. Write your answers in CAPITAL letters.
5. Strictly NO erasures, alterations and superimposition.
6. No cheating.
I.
Match the terms in Column 1 with a definition, example, or
related statement from Column 2. Place the letter
corresponding to the answer in the space provided in your
answer sheet.
Column 1 Column 2
1. ____ Genetic makeup a. A time in which a child’s
2. ____ Temperament libido is diverted into
3. ____ Parent-child relationship concrete thinking.
4. ____ Latent phase b. Possible factor interfering
5. ____ Socioeconomic level with parents’ ability to
6. ____ Postconventional provide adequate health
development care and nutrition.
c. A child’s inherited
background.
d. A stage of cognitive
development displayed by
adolescents as they begin to
have abstract thoughts
about standards of conduct.
e. An individual child’s
particular manner of
thinking, behaving, or
reacting to environmental
thoughts about standards of
conduct.
f. Loss of this crucial
environmental influence can
interfere with a child’s
growth and development.
II.
Additional Matching Exercises
Column 1 Column 2
1. ____ Sensorimotor a. Thinking in terms of what could be
2. ____ Preoperational rather than what currently exists.
thought b. Inductive reasoning, from specific
3. ____ Intuitive thought to general.
4. ____ Concrete c. Development of the concept of
operational thought permanence and goal directed
5. ____ Formal operational behavior.
thought d. Object viewed as having only one
characteristic.
e. Symbolic thought, egocentric and
static thinking.
III.
Supply the missing term or the information requested.
IV.
Choose the letter that corresponds to the best answer for each
question.
a. When children are ill they are often fussy and respond poorly to
new stimuli; these children often need to be hospitalized.
b. Children have different approaches to life, and some children
naturally demonstrate withdrawal when faced with new stimuli.
c. The behavior she described is a sign of Vivienne’s rhythmicity
and activity level, which are inborn reactivity patterns.
d. Infants are seldom adaptable to new stimuli; as time passes
Vivienne will probably have a less intense reaction to stimuli.
4. When discussing care for Shiloh, who is 15 months old, with his
mother, the nurse should consider the developmental tasks of
parenting for which of the following divisions of childhood?
a. Toddler
b. Neonate
c. Infant
d. Preschooler
5. The nurse might discuss which of the following with the parents of
Maddox, a 2-year-old, during a parenting workshop?
a. Preschooler
b. Infant
c. Toddler
d. School-aged child
7. When planning the care of a 4-month-old child hospitalized with a
respiratory tract infection and placed on strict bed rest, the nurse
would include interventions to promote growth and development
due to the child’s
a. Phallic
b. Oral
c. Genital
d. Anal
e. Latent
Chapter 29: Nursing Care of a Family With an Infant
I.
Match the terms in Column 1 with a definition, example, or
related statement from Column 2. Place the letter corresponding
to the answer in the space provided in your answer sheet.
Column 1 Column 2
1. Laughs out loud a. 3 months
2. Uses palmar grasp b. 4 months
3. Says first word, “da-da” c. 6 months
4. Pulls self to a standing position d. 7 months
5. Shows beginning stranger e. 8 months
anxiety f. 9months
6. Brings hands together and pulls
at clothes
7. Sits securely without support
8. Can draw a semi-straight line
with a crayon
II.
Choose the letter that corresponds to the best answer for each
question.
a. Buy clothes for the infant with buttons rather than snaps.
b. Check all toys for small removable parts.
c. Provide round, cylinder-type toys.
d. Avoid finger foods before the age of 15 months.
a. 6 months
b. 8 months
c. 10 months
d. 12 months
a. Stroller
b. Floor mat
c. Crib
d. Play pen
12. An 8-month-old infant who loves to suck her thumb visits the
clinic. Mommy Angelina is very worried that this habit will cause
permanent dental problems. What should the nurse suggest to the
mother?
II.
Match the terms in Column 1 with a definition, example, or
related statement from Column 2. Place the letter corresponding
to the answer in the space provided in your answer sheet.
Column 1 Column 2
1. deferred a. Universal fear that begins at about 6 months
imitation of age and persists throughout the preschool
2. negativism period.
3. separation b. Remembering an action to mimic at a later
anxiety time.
4. lordosis c. A forward curve of the spine at the sacral
5. discipline area.
6. preoperational d. A positive stage in toddler development; the
thought toddler sees himself or herself as a separate
individual with separate needs.
e. Major period of cognitive development that
usually occurs at the end of the toddler period.
f. Setting rules to teach children what is
expected of them.
III. Choose the letter that corresponds to the best answer for
each question.
a. Behavior
b. Crying
c. Touching
d. Play
a. Parent education
b. Early detection
c. Family planning
d. Chelating therapy
a. Irritability.
b. Cardiomegaly
c. Headaches
d. Abdominal pain
a. Loss of control
b. Fear of bodily injury
c. Fear of death
d. Separation anxiety
II.
Match the terms in Column 1 with a definition, example, or related
statement from Column 2. Place the letter corresponding to the
answer in the space provided in your answer sheet.
Column 1 Column 2
1. initiative a. Reverting to behaviors practiced in earlier
2. play years.
3. regression b. Repetition and prolongation of sounds.
4. broken fluency c. Method by which preschoolers use
5. intuitional imaginations.
thought d. Lacking insight to view themselves as others
see them and think of themselves as always
right.
e. Achievement leading to knowledge that
learning new things is fun.
III. Choose the letter that corresponds to the best answer for each
question.
1. Which of the following types of play is primarily demonstrated by
preschoolers?
a. Parallel
b. Imaginary
c. Solitary
d. Cooperative
1. Talent for music or art becomes evident and children respond well by
age __________.
2. For the first 1 to 2 years after menarche, most girls experience
menstrual irregularity primarily because the cycle is ___________. Cycles
become more regular with the onset of __________.
3. As seminal fluid is produced, boys begin to notice ejaculation during
sleep, called __________.
II.
Match the terms in Column 1 with a definition, example, or related
statement from Column 2. Place the letter corresponding to the
answer in the space provided in your answer sheet.
Column 1 Column 2
1. Age 6 a. Best friends important; whispering and
2. Age 7 giggling.
3. Age 8 b. Teacher as the authority figure.
4. Age 9 c. Social and cooperative.
5. Age 10 d. Conservation learned.
6. Age 11 e. Ready for competitive games.
7. Age 12 f. Clubs are formed, all boys or all girls.
g. Insecure with members of opposite sex.
III. Choose the letter that corresponds to the best answer for each
question.
a. High school
b. Junior high school
c. Middle school
d. Grade/Elementary school
a. Lower cuspids
b. Upper central incisor
c. First bicuspid
d. Second molar
II.
Match the terms in Column 1 with a definition, example, or related
statement from Column 2. Place the letter corresponding to the
answer in the space provided in your answer sheet.
Column 1 Column 2
1. adolescence a. The physiologic period between the
2. formal operational beginning of puberty and the cessation of the
thought bodily growth.
3. empathy b. Use of chemicals to improve the mental
4. intimacy state.
5. substance abuse c. Deliberate self-injury with the intent to end
6. puberty one’s life.
7. pustular acne d. Body hair configuration and breast growth
8. runaway distinguishing males from females.
9. suicide e. Feeling for another by projecting one’s self
10. secondary sex into the other person’s situation.
characteristics f. Development of a sense of compassion or
concern for others of both sexes.
g. The stage at which the individual first
becomes capable of sexual reproduction.
h. A 10-17 year old absent from home at least
overnight without permission of parent or
guardian.
i. Condition often treated with systemic
antibiotics.
j. Ability to think in abstract terms and use the
scientific method.
III. Choose the letter that corresponds to the best answer for each
question.
a. Give information about how the teen can manage the specific
problems he or she identifies.
b. Maintain an air of authority by providing explanations for care
procedures to parents only.
c. Provide information related to long-term health needs, since
adolescents respond best to long-range planning.
d. Teach the parents first, since they will be better able to teach the
teen.
a. Discuss with Bieber the fact that his clumsiness is probably a sign of
an easily curable disease.
b. Instruct Bieber in methods of relieving clumsiness through muscle
exercises and improving nutrition.
c. Explain to Bieber that adolescent boys are usually taller than
adolescent girls, so he should be examined.
d. Inform Bieber that what he is experiencing will lessen becoming
more coordinated as he grows taller over the next 4 to 6 years.
4. The mother of Rosalka, age 13, reports that Rosalka “talks for hours to
her girlfriends, and spends most of her waking hours with girls.” The
nurse should reassure Rosalka’s mother by explaining which of the
following?
a. If Rosalka spends less time on the phone during the next 2 years,
she will mature normally.
b. Rosalka is probably talking to boys when her parents are not
around.
c. Talking on the phone and spending time with girlfriends is normal
for a girl of Rosalka’s age.
d. There is no current threat of homosexuality due to Rosalka’s young
age.
5. Marla is 15 years old. Marla’s mother tells the nurse that she fears that
her daughter will get into serious trouble soon because she is always
“going for a walk or sitting outside somewhere.” The nurse should
respond in which of the following ways to this information?
7. Aljur, age 17, states he should not have sex and get girls pregnant
“mostly because my parents would be really mad.” Aljur’s response
may indicate a lack of development in which of the following areas?
a. Cognitive development
b. Moral development
c. Physiologic development
d. Religious development
8. Which of the following would be a realistic outcome related to an
adolescent with a history of experimentation with marijuana? The
adolescent will
10. Tseriluh, age 17, has been identified as a suicide risk. The nurse should
watch her carefully and during discharge teaching discuss the need for
the family to watch her particularly closely