Neurologic & Cognitive Disorders

A child with spina bifida is being admitted to the hospital for a shunt revision? The nurse admitting the child anticipates which type of precautions to be ordered for the child?

Latex

Bleeding

Seizure

Isolation

When a 2-week-old infant is seen for irritability, poor appetite, and rapid head growth with an observable distended scalp vein, the nurse recognizes these signs as indicative of which condition?

SIADH (syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone)

Cerebral palsy

Hydrocephalus

Reyes syndrome

A child is admitted to the hospital with spastic cerebral palsy. The nurse will assess for which manifestations associated with this disorder?

Tremulous movements at rest and with activity

Writhing, uncontrolled, involuntary movements

Sudden jerking movement caused by stimuli

Clumsy, uncoordinated movements

How should the nurse explain positioning for a lumbar puncture to a 5-year-old child?

You will be on your knees with your head down on the table.

You will be able to sit up with your chin against your chest.

You will be on your side with the head of your bed slightly raised.

You will lie on your side and bend your knees so that they touch your chin.

After a tonic-clonic seizure, it would not be unusual for a child to display which symptom?

Irritability and hunger

Lethargy and confusion

Nausea and vomiting

Nervousness and excitability

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