What personal protective equipment should a nurse put on before entering the room of a child with open and wet-appearing varicella lesions?

What type of isolation precaution is recommended for infants infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)?  

A nurse is caring for a client with a draining wound that requires contact precautions. Which of the following actions by the nurse is appropriate?  

What would the nurse consider an abnormal finding on a musculoskeletal assessment of a 4-year-old child?  

Symptoms of appendicitis in the older child may be pain and tenderness in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen, nausea and vomiting, fever, and constipation.

The primary therapy for secondary hypertension in children is  

The nurse is explaining blood components to an 8-year-old child. Based on the nurse’s knowledge of child development, the most appropriate description of platelets is that they  

In a non–potty-trained child with nephrotic syndrome, what is the best way to detect fluid retention?  

A pediatric patient has been diagnosed with leukemia and presents with a white blood cell (WBC) count of 80,000 mm3. In teaching a group of nursing students about the disease process, how would the nursing instructor describe the proliferation of white blood cells and their ability to fight off infection?  

 Hodgkin’s disease is a malignancy of the lymphatic system.