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james0929

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The parents of a child with spastic cerebral palsy (CP) state that their child seems to have significant pain. In addition to systemic pharmacologic management, the nurse includes which teaching?
 
  a. Patterning
  b. Positions to reduce spasticity
  c. Stretching exercises after meals
  d. Topical analgesics for muscle spasms

Question 2

A mother is upset because her newborn has erythema toxicum neonatorum. The nurse should reassure her that this is what?
 
  a. Easily treated
  b. Benign and transient
  c. Usually not contagious
  d. Usually not disfiguring



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
Parents and children are taught positions to assume while sitting and recumbent that reduce spasticity. The American Academy of Pediatrics has stated that patterning should not be used for neurologically disabled children. Patterning attempts to alter abnormal tone and posture and elicit desired movements through positional manipulation or other means of modifying or augmenting sensory output. Stretching should be done after appropriate analgesic medication has been given and is effective. Topical analgesia is not effective for the muscle spasms of spastic CP.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
Erythema toxicum neonatorum, or newborn rash, is a benign, self-limiting eruption of unknown cause that usually appears within the first 2 days of life. The rash usually lasts about 5 to 7 days. No treatment is indicated. Erythema toxicum neonatorum is not contagious. Successive crops of lesions heal without pigmentation.




james0929

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Reply 2 on: Jun 28, 2018
Excellent


Liamb2179

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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