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Chapter 30. Nursing care of a family with a toddler. Nursing process: Healthy Development of the toddler. Assessment Ability in relation to ADLs Parents’ source of information Anticipatory guidance Realistic goals setting. Growth and development of a toddler. Physical growth
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Chapter 30 Nursing care of a family with a toddler
Nursing process: Healthy Development of the toddler Assessment • Ability in relation to ADLs • Parents’ source of information • Anticipatory guidance • Realistic goals setting
Growth and development of a toddler • Physical growth • Height, weight, head circumference • Body contour • Body systems • Teeth
Developmental milestones • Language • Emotional • Autonomy • Socialisation • Play behaviour
Developmental milestones • Cognitive development • Deferred imitation • Preoperational thought • Assimilation
Health promotion Toddler safety • Lead screening • Sources • Testing • Effects
Health promotion Nutritional health • Toddler nutrition • Promoting adequate intake with vegetarian diet
Health promotion Daily activities • Dressing • Sleep • Bathing • Care of teeth
Health promotion • Healthy family functioning • Parental concerns • Toilet training • Ritualistic behaviour • Negativism • Discipline • Separation anxiety
Health promotion • Parental concerns • Temper tantrums • Sibling rivalry • Concerns with physically challenged or chronically ill toddler • Nutrition and physically challenged or chronically ill toddler
Question A toddler seems unable to remain dry despite toilet training. When planning care for him, it would be important to counsel his mother that he: • probably is not yet physically ready for toilet training. • is reacting to her emotional outbursts, responsible for delaying toilet training. • may need to be examined by a child psychologist to solve this problem. • must be under undue stress to be behaving this way.
Answer • A. Is probably not yet physically ready for toilet training Rationale: Children must have both physical and mental maturity for toilet training. For many children, this point is not reached until they are 2½ or 3 years old.
Question A toddler’s mother is concerned because her toddler takes her blanket everywhere. Which advice would be most appropriate for her regarding this? • Have her daughter evaluated by a child psychologist. • Understand that this is probably a normal event. • Make subtle efforts to remove the blanket. • Destroy the blanket by cutting off a strip from it every day.
Answer • B. Understand that this is probably a normal event. Rationale: Blankets or favourite toys serve as transitional objects or security objects.
Question The parents of a 2-year-old child are concerned because their child’s back seems curved. The nurse’s best response would be: • the child needs to be screened for scoliosis. • the child needs referral for a spine radiograph. • this is normal for this age. • to perform a full neurological assessment.
Answer • C. This in normal for this age. Rationale: Toddlers have a natural lordosis (forward curvature of the spine) that resolves as they grow. It is not within the nurse’s scope of care to order radiographs.