The nurse recommends to the family of a child with severe ...

[evelyn o bentley]

The nurse recommends to the family of a child with severe cerebral palsy that they enroll their child in hippotherapy. The nurse would explain that hippotherapy includes:
 
  1. Water exercises to increase muscular strength.
  2. Use of braces and walkers to support walking.
  3. Dietary therapy to maintain a normal weight.
  4. Horseback riding, or hippotherapy, improves posture and balance and allows the child to participate in a physical activity.

Question 2

A nurse is planning care for a child with hyponatremia. The nurse, delegating care of this child to an LVN, cautions the LVN that the child should be watched for:
 
  1. Seizures.
   2. Bradycardia.
   3. Respiratory distress.
   4. Hyperthermia.

[elizabethrperez]

Answer to Question 1

Rationale 1: Hippotherapy does not involve water exercises.
Rationale 2: Hippotherapy does not involve bracing and the use of walkers.
Rationale 3: Hippotherapy is not related to nutrition.
Rationale 4: True
Global Rationale:

Answer to Question 2

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Rationale:
1. A child with hyponatremia is at risk for seizures.
2. Bradycardia is not a risk of hyponatremia.
3. Respiratory distress is not a risk of hyponatremia.
4. Hyperthermia is not a risk of hyponatremia.

[evelyn o bentley]

Wow, this really help

[laurnthompson]

YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review