Concept 01: Development

Giddens: Concepts for Nursing Practice, 3rd Edition

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. The nurse manager of a pediatric clinic could confirm that the new nurse recognized the

purpose of the HEADSS Adolescent Risk Profile when the new nurse responds that it is

used to assess for needs related to

a. anticipatory guidance.

b. low-risk adolescents.

c. physical development.

d. sexual development.

ANS: A

The HEADSS Adolescent Risk Profile is a psychosocial assessment screening tool which

assesses home, education, activities, drugs, sex, and suicide for the purpose of identifying

high-risk adolescents and the need for anticipatory guidance. It is used to identify high-risk,

not low-risk, adolescents. Physical development is assessed with anthropometric data.

Sexual development is assessed using physical examination.

OBJ: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and Maintenance

2. The nurse preparing a teaching plan for a preschooler knows that, according to Piaget, the

expected stage of development for a preschooler is

a. concrete operational.

b. formal operational. N

c. preoperational.

d. sensorimotor.

ANS: C

The expected stage of development for a preschooler (3–4 years old) is pre-operational.

Concrete operational describes the thinking of a school-age child (7–11 years old). Formal

operational describes the thinking of an individual after about 11 years of age. Sensorimotor

describes the earliest pattern of thinking from birth to 2 years old.

OBJ: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Health Promotion and Maintenance

3. The school nurse talking with a high school class about the difference between growth and

development would best describe growth as

a. processes by which early cells specialize.

b. psychosocial and cognitive changes.