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CCNS Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist

Category - Pediatrics

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A nurse manager teaches a group of newly hired pediatric unit staff members. She said that from a nurse’s knowledge of preschoolers, a nurse can predict that a four-year-old child’s reaction to illness and hospitalization may be characterized by:
  1. Anger, frustration, and resentment over depersonalization and loss of peer support
  2. Feeling lonely, bored, and depressed over separation from parents and fearing death
  3. Being out of control, regressing to over dependency, and fearing bodily mutilation
  4. Intense panic, loss of security over separation from parents, and having a low frustration tolerance.
Explanation
Answer - C - She said that from a nurse’s knowledge of preschoolers, a nurse can predict that a four-year-old child’s reaction to illness and hospitalization may be characterized by being out of control, regressing to over dependency, and fearing bodily mutilation. Piaget’s preoperational stage focuses on egocentricity and concrete thoughts and Freud’s phallic stage supports this response.
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