A 2-year-old child who has sickle cell anemia (SCA) comes to the clinic with a cough and a fever of 101.5°C. The child currently takes penicillin V prophylaxis 125 mg orally twice daily. What will the primary care pediatric nurse practitioner do?

Does the halo of the Milky Way Galaxy include other galaxies?

The primary care pediatric nurse practitioner is managing care for a child diagnosed with iron-deficiency anemia who had an initial hemoglobin of 8.8 g/dL and hematocrit of 32% who has been receiving ferrous sulfate as 3 mg/kg/day of elemental iron for 4 weeks. The child’s current lab work reveals elevations in Hgb/Hct and reticulocytes with a hemoglobin of 10.5 g/dL and a hematocrit of 36%. What is the next step in management of this patient?

Which of the following statements is an example of a situational attribution?

Which of the following is a left to right shunting defect?

Which of the following is a left to right shunting defect?

The primary care pediatric nurse practitioner is managing care for a child diagnosed with iron-deficiency anemia who had an initial hemoglobin of 8.8 g/dL and hematocrit of 32% who has been receiving ferrous sulfate as 3 mg/kg/day of elemental iron for 4 weeks. The child’s current lab work reveals elevations in Hgb/Hct and reticulocytes with a hemoglobin of 10.5 g/dL and a hematocrit of 36%. What is the next step in management of this patient?

A 3-year-old child who attends day care has had a fever, nausea, and vomiting several weeks prior and now has darkened urine and constipation along with hepatomegaly and right upper quadrant tenderness. What treatment is warranted for this child?

“Mommy, mommy, mommy,” your young son asks frantically. “Can we please buy a new PlayStation®4 console with all of the games and the wireless controllers so that we don’t have to sit near the television?” “No,” you reply, “we can’t afford to buy all of that!” Seemingly unperturbed by your rejection, your son comes back with “Then can we just buy one new game for our PlayStation®3?” “Okay, I guess so,” you answer, not realizing that your precocious son has taken a social psychology class and has just used the __________ technique to get what he wants.

In Festinger and Carlsmith’s (1959) classic study on cognitive dissonance, participants who were paid $20 for doing a boring task, in contrast to those who were paid $1 for doing the same task, __________.