A nurse is caring for a 3-year-old child who has a new diagnosis of diabetes mellitus and is distressed about insulin injections. Which of the following activities should the nurse recognize is therapeutic in helping the child deal with the injection?

A 10-year-old girl comes to the school nurse’s office with type 1 diabetes.  The child reports she took the dose of insulin this morning as instructed and a few bites of breakfast. The nurse notices that the student is nervous, has hand tremors, and is pale & sweaty. The school nurse would suspect:

A mother attends the pediatric clinic with her 11-year-old daughter who has type 1 diabetes. After completing the diabetic teaching, the nurse evaluates the mother’s knowledge. Which statement by the mother indicates a satisfactory understanding of diabetes?

A preadolescent girl is being followed in the endocrine clinic for precocious puberty. The child has already developed secondary sexual characteristics and is taller than her classmates. She expresses concern that because of her height she “stands out and everyone stares at her.” The most appropriate nursing diagnosis for this child would be:

A nurse is conducting a focused physical assessment on a 3-month-old infant who is admitted for respiratory distress. Which assessment finding indicates a need for further action?

A laser beam may pass through an optical waveguide at any incident angles as long as the incident angle is smaller than the maximum acceptance angle.

A laser system has a single longitudinal mode operation when homogeneous broadening dominates in its gain medium.

The refractive index of the cladding of an optical fiber is higher than that of the core, so that light can be confined and propagate along the core.

When the wavelength of a laser is smaller than the single-mode cut-off wavelength of a fiber, the propagation of the laser in the fiber may become multimode.

To select a material as a laser gain medium, a two-level system is preferred, because it can be easily obtained.