Which Interventions Should the Nurse Plan When Caring for a Child

question 13

Multiple Choice

Which interventions should the nurse plan when caring for a child with a visual impairment? (Select all that apply.)

• A) Touch the child upon entering the room before speaking.
• B) Keep items in the room in the same location.
• C) Describe the placement of the eating utensils on the meal tray.
• D) Use color examples to describe something to a child who has been blind since birth.
• E) Identify noises for the child.

---

Definitions:

Stimulus Discrimination

The learned ability to respond differently to similar stimuli based on their differences, significant in the context of conditioning.

Stimulus Generalization

The tendency for the conditioned response to be evoked by stimuli that are similar to the stimulus to which the response was initially conditioned.

Higher-Order Conditioning

A process in classical conditioning where a stimulus that was previously neutral becomes a conditioned stimulus by being paired with another conditioned stimulus.

Shaping

A method of teaching new behaviors by rewarding successive approximations toward a desired behavior.