During Assessment of a 6-Year-Old Child with Meningitis,the Nurse Places

question 4

Multiple Choice

During assessment of a 6-year-old child with meningitis,the nurse places the child supine and attempts to put the child's chin on her chest.The child cries out in pain and flexes her knees.How does the nurse document this assessment finding in the medical record?

• A) Absent Moro reflex
• B) Exaggerated Grey-Turner sign
• C) Negative Kernig sign
• D) Positive Brudzinski sign

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Definitions:

Imagination Inflation

The phenomenon where vividly imagining an event can increase confidence that it actually occurred.

Source Amnesia

A memory disorder where an individual is unable to remember the source of a specific memory while retaining the factual content.

Sensory Memory

It is the shortest-term element of memory which acts as a buffer for stimuli received through the senses, lasting typically less than a second.

Proactive Interference

A phenomenon where old information hinders the recall of newly learned information.