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RODY.ELKHALIL · **on:** Jun 28, 2018

A nurse is explaining to a nursing student that a patient experienced a sentinel event during a previous hospitalization. What does the student understand about this event?

A.
Experienced an unusual event that is rare in the literature
B.
Had an unexpected response to treatment or nursing care
C.
Meeting a major milestone in treatment for an illness
D.
Unexpected event resulting in serious injury (or death)

Question 2

The pediatric nurse is assessing a 5-year-old for developmental milestones. Which assessment tool should the nurse use?

A.
CHEOPS scale
B.
Denver II screening tool
C.
FLACC scale
D.
OLD CAT questions

bigsis44 · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 28, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
A sentinel event is an unexpected event that results in the death or serious injury of a patient. The other descriptions are inaccurate.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
The Denver II assesses personal-social, fine motor-adaptive, gross motor, and language skills to gauge performance on developmental milestones. The CHEOPS and FLACC scales are used to assess pain. The mnemonic OLD CAT is used to obtain a patient's pain history and includes questions on onset, location, duration, character, aggravating and alleviating factors, and timing.