A Preschool-Age Child Is Seen in a Pediatric Oncology Clinic

question 109

Multiple Choice

A preschool-age child is seen in a pediatric oncology clinic.The nurse assigned to care for the client anticipates a diagnosis of cancer.Which reactions are considered common for the preschool-age child to experience with illnesses and hospitalizations? Select all that apply.

• A) Unawareness of the illness and its severity
• B) Understanding of what cancer is and how it is treated
• C) Thoughts that they caused their illness and are being punished
• D) Confusion as to why a parent is unable to make the illness go away
• E) Acceptance, especially if able to discuss the disease with children their own age

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Definitions:

Stimuli

External factors or changes in the environment that elicit physical or behavioral responses from organisms.

Parent

describes a caregiver of a child, who may be a biological, adoptive, step, or foster figure responsible for the child's upbringing.

Taste Disturbance

A condition in which a person's sense of taste is diminished, altered, or completely absent.

Phenytoin

An anticonvulsant medication used to control certain types of seizures and to prevent seizures following neurosurgery.