Samuel Merit Pediatric Proctored Exam Practice Questions

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• Call the physician.
• Place the patient on 10 L/min oxygen per nasal cannula.
• Assess the patient.
• Administer oxygen and monitor vital signs while calling the physician.

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• Stridor
• Wheezes
• Crackles
• Rhonchi

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• 1
• 2
• 3

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• APT
• Numeric
• FLACC
• FACES

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• The child's current vital signs are consistent with vital signs over the past 4 hours.
• The child becomes quiet when held and cuddled.
• The child has just returned from the recovery room.
• The child is lying rigidly in bed and not moving.

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• The child's current vital signs are consistent with vital signs over the past 4 hours.
• The child becomes quiet when held and cuddled.
• The child has just returned from the recovery room.
• The child is lying rigidly in bed and not moving.

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• The younger the child, the greater is the chance they will be undertreated for pain.
• Children experience less pain with procedures than adults.
• Infants experience less pain than adolescents.
• Children can easily become addicted to narcotics.

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• Use self-parent report, behavioral, and physiological factors.
• Ask the parents for a pain rating.
• Look for behavioral clues for pain such as crying.
• Use measures of heart rate and respiratory rate.