Pediatrics- Communicable Diseases

A nurse is planning care for a child who has mumps. Which of the following instructions should the nurse include in the plan?

• Initiate standard precautions.
   
   
•   Initiate droplet precautions.
•   Initiate airborne precautions.
•  Initiate contact precautions.

A nurse is preparing to teach about communicable diseases. During which of the following stages is the period in which a disease is contagious?

• Communicability period
• Convalescent period
• Incubation period
• Prodromal period

A nurse is administering vaccines at a county health immunization clinic. To which client should the nurse plan to administer the meningococcal conjugate (MCV4) vaccine?

• A 4-year-old child
• An 11-year-old school-age child
• A 4-month-old infant
• A 2-year-old toddler

When examining an infant's abdomen, which assessment should be done first ?

• Inspection

• Auscultation

• Percussion

• Palpation

When checking capillary refill, the nurse should normally expect to see refill in

• Less than 1 second

• 2 secs

• 5 secs

• 8-10 secs

While reviewing the immunization history of an adolescent , the school nurse notes that he teen has recieved only one immunization for measles-mumps-rubellla(MMR). Which action y the school nurse is most appropriate ?

• Say nothing because

• Recommend the teen be immunized again measles only

• Recommend the teen be immunized against measles only.

• recommend the teen be given a second MMR.