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Purpose of Assignment

This assignment will help to identify the normal growth and development by topic for each age group. In the final column of the assignment you need to observe a child and apply the information you gathered and document your findings in comparison by the particular age of that child.

Competency

Apply the foundations of pediatric nursing when caring for clients with health alterations.

Scenario

You are working in a large urban pediatric clinic after-hours.

A mother brings her 6-month-old daughter, Vivi Mitchell, to the clinic for rhinorrhea, congestion, fever, and cough. Upon assessment, you identify the child has wheezing upon auscultation and on inspection, you identify retractions.

The child is in less than 10th percentile of weight and has a cardiac history of Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA).

Born at 36 weeks gestation.

Mother states this child doesn’t go to day care but her two other children ages 2 and 3 do attend daycare.

T- 102.1 HR 140 RR 40 BP 83/58 Pulse ox 96%

A swab for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is positive.