Author Question: The caregiver of a 1-year-old son calls the nurse, upset that his wife has just told him that their ... (Read 79 times)

wenmo · **on:** Jun 28, 2018

The caregiver of a 1-year-old son calls the nurse, upset that his wife has just told him that their son is being given a hormone. His wife says that the pediatrician called it human chorionic gonadotropic hormone but that is all she understood.

The nurse most accurately clarifies the caregiver's question by making which of the following statements regarding the son's treatment?
A) Without the hormone your son will have fluid that will collect in his scrotum.
B) Without the treatment your child's gonads will not reach normal size.
C) The doctor is hoping that the hormone will cause your son's undropped testes to move into their proper place.
D) Your child's testes have not dropped so the hormone is being administered to avoid causing degeneration until they do.

Question 2

The nurse observes two 4-year-old twins in the waiting room of the pediatric clinic. Of the following behaviors, which activity best shows an example of associative play? The twins:

A) share the play kitchen; one washes dishes while the other pretends to make a salad.
B) watch a television program they decided together they would watch.
C) toss a ball back and forth between them.
D) curl up in separate chairs and look at picture books.