A 7-Year-Old Child Is Brought to the Emergency Department Complaining

question 2

Multiple Choice

A 7-year-old child is brought to the emergency department complaining of arm pain after falling off a swing at school. The child rates the pain as an 8 on a scale of 1-10. The best response by the nurse to this information is to

• A) assume the child is too young to verbalize how much pain he/she is in.
• B) give the child a narcotic pain medication.
• C) obtain further information about the pain using an age-appropriate tool.
• D) send the parents to the waiting room to see if the child "gets better" without them.

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Definitions:

Somatic Tremor

Involuntary shaking or trembling of the body parts, usually due to neurological or physiological conditions.

Interrupted Baseline

A discontinuity or break in the baseline of a graph or record, often seen in electrocardiograms or other biomedical recordings, indicating a measurement problem or artifact.

Defibrillator

A device designed to deliver an electric shock to a patient, in an effort to stop pulseless ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia.

Tachycardia

Abnormal rapidity of heart action.