Author Question: A 5-year-old is hospitalized with pneumonia. Which approach would be MOST appropriate to facilitate ... (Read 64 times)

Redwolflake15 · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

A 5-year-old is hospitalized with pneumonia. Which approach would be MOST appropriate to facilitate successful administration of oral medication?

a. I have some medication for you to drink. Do you want juice or water with it?
b. I have a new type of orange juice for you to drink. It tastes very good.
c. I have your pink medicine. Will you take it for me?
d. In a few minutes you will need to take your medicine. You mustn't spit it out. OK?

Question 2

Which of these terms describes a complete arching of the body that occurs with seizures after a person takes PCP?

a. confabulation c. synthesis
b. opisthotonos d. tonic-clonic seizure

kescobar@64 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

A
Use a straightforward approach, and allow for choices whenever possible when administering medications to the preschool child.

Answer to Question 2

B
The use of phencyclidine (PCP) typically results in four phases. First, acute toxicity causes visual disturbances, auditory hallucinations, combativeness, opisthotonos, catatonia, convulsions, and coma. This phase lasts for 3 days. The second phase involves toxic psychosis with visual and auditory hallucinations, agitation, paranoid delusions, and disturbed judgment. This phase lasts for 7 days. The third phase is characterized by psychotic episodes, including thought disorders, paranoid ideation, and affect disorders much like schizophrenia, and lasts a month or more. Depression during the fourth phase may result in suicide. No effort should be made to talk down or calm the individual.