A tonsillectomy or adenoidectomy is contraindicated in what conditions? (Select all that apply.) ...

A tonsillectomy or adenoidectomy is contraindicated in what conditions? (Select all that apply.)
 
  a. Cleft palate
  b. Seizure disorders
  c. Blood dyscrasias
  d. Sickle cell disease
  e. Acute infection at the time of surgery

---

(Question 2) What interventions can the nurse teach parents to do to ease respiratory efforts for a child with a mild respiratory tract infection? (Select all that apply.)
 
  a. Cool mist
  b. Warm mist
  c. Steam vaporizer
  d. Keep child in a flat, quiet position
  e. Run a shower of hot water to produce steam

---

(Question 3) The nurse is caring for a newborn with suspected congenital diaphragmatic hernia. What of the following findings would the nurse expect to observe? (Select all that apply.)
 
  a. Loud, harsh murmur
  b. Scaphoid abdomen
  c. Poor peripheral pulses
  d. Mediastinal shift
  e. Inguinal swelling
  f. Moderate respiratory distress

---

(Question 4) The nurse is preparing a staff education program about pediatric asthma. What concepts should the nurse include when discussing the asthma severity classification system? (Select all that apply.)
 
  a. Children with mild persistent asthma have nighttime signs or symptoms less than two times a month.
  b. Children with moderate persistent asthma use a short-acting -agonist more than two times per week.
  c. Children with severe persistent asthma have a peak expiratory flow (PEF) of 60 to 80 of predicted value.
  d. Children with mild persistent asthma have signs or symptoms more than two times per week.
  e. Children with moderate persistent asthma have some limitations with normal activity.
  f. Children with severe persistent asthma have frequent nighttime signs or symptoms.

---

(Question 5) What medication is contraindicated in children post tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy?
 
  a. Codeine
  b. Ondansetron (Zofran)
  b. Amoxil (amoxicillin)
  c. Acetaminophen (Tylenol)

---

(Question 6) A child has a streptococcal throat infection and is being treated with antibiotics. What should the nurse teach the parents to prevent infection of others?
 
  a. The child can return to school immediately.
  b. The organism cannot be transmitted through contact.
  c. The child can return to school after taking antibiotics for 24 hours.
  d. The organism can only be transmitted if someone uses a personal item of the sick child.

---

(Question 7) Fetal alcohol syndrome involves a disorder that alters the
 
  A. sequence of base pairs in the genes of the fetus.
  B. structural integrity of the chromosomes of the fetus.
  C. expression of genes in the fetus.
  D. gametes of the fetus.

---

(Question 8) Consider a mother with normal vision who has a son with red-green color blindness. The mother was a carrier of the affected gene, as she had a normal phenotype but
 
  A. two recessive alleles.
  B. two dominant alleles.
  C. one dominant and one recessive allele.
  D. a codominant set of alleles.
  E. an incompletely penetrating genotype.

---

(Question 9) Someone with the genotype associated with hereditary pancreatitis might not show symptoms of the disorder because the disorder does not have a _________ level of 100.
 
  A. dominance
  B. penetrance
  C. polygenicity
  D. homozygous
  E. sex-linkage

---

(Question 10) Blood type is an example of a trait that demonstrates
 
  A. strict Mendelian inheritance.
  B. codominant inheritance.
  C. incomplete dominance.
  D. polygenic dominance.
  E. sex-linked recessiveness.