Pediatric nursing

The three percentiles are not decoration. Length and head circumference at the 25th with weight at the 5th is a discordant pattern, and a post that assesses milestones without noticing it has missed the case.

Select one of three paediatric GU cases — a 3-year-old with dysuria and secondary enuresis with an abnormal dipstick, a 15-year-old with acute scrotal pain and a blue dot sign, or a well 5-year-old with isolated 2+ proteinuria — and give a differential, the most likely diagnosis, and a treatment, management or referral plan with dosages.

Select one of three paediatric case studies — a jaundiced one-week-old, a three-year-old picky eater with microcytic hypochromic anaemia, or a short thirteen-year-old at Tanner stage II — and post a differential diagnosis, the most likely diagnosis, a treatment and management plan with dosages, and family education strategies.

Two examinations that look similar and are not: one is comprehensive and preventive, the other is a targeted screen for conditions that make sport dangerous, ending in a clearance decision.

Describe the effect of extremely low birth weight babies on the family and community across short and long-term impacts, socioeconomic implications, ongoing care needs and comorbidities, explain ethnic and cultural disparities, and identify one local support service.

Seven days of fever, magenta lips, palmar redness and sterile cultures — the negative cultures are not a loose end, they are part of the definition.