NUR 2513 Maternal-Child Nursing - Rasmussen - MCN - Exam 2

Module 4, 5, 6

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Pediatric Growth & Development:

Weight, height, first teeth?

- •Weight - Double by 6 months

•Weight - Tripled by 12 months

•Height: 1 inch per month up until 6 months, should increase by 50% birth

length by 12 months

•First teeth come in at 6 months and 1 tooth per month after that usually

At 8 months how many teeth should a baby have?

- 2 teeth

First teeth come in at 6 months and then add 1 tooth/month after that

Name this stage of Piaget:

•Learn to separate themselves from other objects in the environment

•Not extension of parents

- Sensorimotor stage 

Name this stage of Piaget:

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•Preschool thinking is also strongly influenced by role fantasy or how children would like

something to turn out.

•Magical Thinking

•Role Play

- Preoperational stage

Name this stage of Piaget:

•School-age children can be seen using practical solutions to everyday problems as well

as begin to recognize cause-and-effect relationships

- Concrete operational stage

Name this stage of Piaget:

•adolescents are capable of thinking in terms of possibility—what could be (abstract

thought)—rather than being limited to thinking about what already is (concrete thought)

- Formal operational

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Name this stage of Erikson:

▪ meet infants needs to build trust

- Trust vs Mistrust (Infant birth-1 year)

Name this stage of Erikson:

▪ let toddlers be independent

- Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (Toddler 1-3 years) 

Name this stage of Erikson:

▪ learning how to do things such as drawing, building an object from blocks, or playing

dress up.

- Initiative vs. Guilt (Preschool 3-6 years)

Name this stage of Erikson:

▪ Self-confidence rather than inferiority.

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▪ During the preschool period, children learned initiative (i.e., how to do things).

▪ During school age, children learn how to do things well

- Industry vs. Inferiority (School age 6-12 years)

Name this stage of Erikson:

•To achieve this, adolescents must bring together everything they have learned about

themselves as a son or daughter, an athlete, a friend, a fast-food cook, a student, a garage

band musician, and so on, and integrate these different images into a whole that makes

sense

- Identity vs Role Confusion (Adolescents 12-20 years)

The usual reaction pattern of an individual or an individual's characteristic manner of

thinking, behaving, or reacting to stimuli in the environment.

- Temperament

Name this type of temperament:

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▪ Children are rated as "easy to care for" if they have a predictable rhythmicity, approach

and adapt to new situations readily, have a mild-to-moderate intensity of reaction, and

have an overall positive mood quality. Most children are rated by their parents as being

in this category.

- The easy child 

Name this type of temperament:

▪ Some characteristics of both easy and difficult groups are present.

- The intermediate child

Name this type of temperament:

*SATA*

▪ Children are "difficult" if they are irregular in habits, have a strong negative mood

quality, and withdraw rather than approach new situations. Don't adapt to change

very well. Only about 10% of children fall into this category.

- The difficult child

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Name this type of temperament:

▪ Children fall into this category if, overall, they are fairly inactive, respond only mildly

and adapt slowly to new situations, and have a general negative mood. About 15% of

children display this pattern.

▪ When discussing this temperament with parents, try to use positive terms such as

"ways to find a healthy fit for your child" rather than stressing ways the child is hard to

manage.

- The slow to warm child

Toys for infants

- •Rattles

•Blocks

•Reading books

•Balls

•Dolls - plastic

If sick we want to give toys that we can easily wipe down 

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