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The pediatric nurse instructs parents who are concerned about the spread of illness at their children’s daycare centers to inquire about the facilities’

A clean-catch urine culture for an eight-year-old female patient with urinary frequency, urgency, and dysuria contains over 100,000 colonies of Escherichia coli per mL of urine. After instructing the family to safely administer the prescribed antibiotic, the pediatric nurse recommends…

To meet the emotional needs of a 10-year old child who is dying, the most appropriate nursing action is to:

A female adolescent, who has pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), inquires about the effects of the disease on her ability to bear children. Which is the pediatric nurse’s best response?

In preparing a preschool-aged child for an injection, the most appropriate nursing intervention is to:

An adolescent, with chronic asthma, who has been hospitalized several times during the winter with severe asthmatic exacerbations confides, “I wish I could stay here in the hospital because every time that I go home, I get sick again!” The…

The major pharmacologic action of albuterol (Proventil) is:

While caring for a Laotian child who is hospitalized for acute gastroenteritis and dehydration, the pediatric nurse notes the parent keeping packets of herbs by the child’s bedside. Suspecting that the parent may be administering the herbs to the child,…

A pediatric nurse, who is caring for a 12-year-old patient with septic shock, perceives a potential complication of fluid resuscitation upon noting:

During the first two years of life, children with bronchopulmonary dysplasia requiring re-hospitalization are most likely to be diagnosed with: