What Is an Appropriate Nursing Intervention When Caring for a Child

question 18

Multiple Choice

What is an appropriate nursing intervention when caring for a child in traction?

• A) Remove adhesive traction straps daily to prevent skin breakdown.
• B) Assess for tightness, weakness, or contractures in uninvolved joints and muscles.
• C) Provide active range-of-motion exercises to affected extremity 3 times a day.
• D) Keep child in one position to maintain good alignment.

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Definitions:

3*IQR

A statistical range calculated as three times the interquartile range (IQR), used to identify outliers by delineating the boundaries beyond which data points are considered exceptional.

Statistically Significant

A determination that the results observed in data are unlikely to have occurred by chance alone, according to a predefined significance level.

Box-and-Whisker Plot

A type of chart that displays the distribution of data based on quartiles, highlighting the median, and extremes.

Whiskers

In a box plot, the lines that extend from the upper and lower quartiles to the maximum and minimum values, respectively, indicating variability outside the upper and lower quartiles.