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abarnes · **on:** Jun 27, 2018

The school nurse talks with caregivers of grade-school children about serving healthy foods and modeling eating healthy foods. How will this activity by the nurse help these children avoid obesity in the future?

a. Slim children will become slim adults, as they have less fat cells to fill up and the excess fat is excreted.
b. The body metabolism is altered to be much slower on a long-term basis then children eat healthy foods at an early age.
c. Eating healthy foods early allows the consumption of less healthy foods later without much harm.
d. Early exposure to healthy foods will set up a preference for these foods, as adolescents tend to choose foods they are familiar with.

Question 2

The parent of a 6-year-old child who will be wearing an eye patch and a bandage around the entire head asks the nurse for suggestions on how to get the child to comply and not remove these items.

Which of the following are the best suggestions and are most likely to be successful interventions? a. Encourage the child to pretend to be a pirate, and use rewards to reinforce compliance.
b. Apply tincture of benzoin or glue to the edges of the patch to adhere it to the child's face.
c. Tie cardboard tubes on the elbows, and put mittens on the child's hands.
d. Apply tape across the patch from the forehead to the cheek or jaw, making a big X to secure the patch.

yifu223 · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 27, 2018

Answer to Question 1

D

Feedback
A Incorrect. The nurse will not teach the caregivers about serving healthy foods and modeling healthy eating, that slim children will become slim adults, as they have less fat cells to fill up and the excess fat is excreted.
B Incorrect. The nurse will not teach the caregivers about serving healthy foods and modeling healthy eating, that the body metabolism is altered to be much slower on a long-term basis then children eat healthy foods at an early age.
C Incorrect. The nurse will not teach the caregivers about serving healthy foods and modeling healthy eating, that eating healthy foods early allows the consumption of less healthy foods later without much harm.
D Correct. The nurse will teach the caregivers about serving healthy foods and modeling healthy eating, that early exposure to healthy foods will set up a preference for these foods, as adolescents tend to choose foods they are familiar with.

Answer to Question 2

A

Feedback
A Correct. The best suggestion to get the child to comply with wearing the eye patch is to encourage the child to pretend to be a pirate, and use rewards to reinforce compliance.
B Incorrect. Tincture of benzoin, not glue, can be applied around the eye there the sticky part of the patch goes. Tincture of benzoin is not applied to the patch itself.
C Incorrect. For a 6 year old child cardboard tubes secured with gauze longitudinally around the elbows when all else fails to restrict the child's ability to remove the patch. Taping mittens on the hands is appropriate for the younger child.
D Incorrect. Applying tape from the forehead to the cheek is another method to maintain treatment of eye patching. The tape should not be applied across the patch, making a big X to secure the patch.