B.Sc-B.Sc Nursing 3rd Year Child Health Nursing (Kerala University of Health Sciences-2014)

Q.P. CODE: 302010                               Reg. No: …………………...
              Third Year B.Sc Nursing Degree Examinations, October 2014
                                                    Child Health Nursing

Time: 3 Hrs                                                                    Max. Marks: 75

• Answer all questions

• Draw diagram wherever necessary

Essays (2×15=30)

1. Define bronchial asthma. Explain the pathophysiology. Enumerate the clinical manifestations. Describe the nursing management of a child with bronchial asthma. (2+4+3+6=15)

2. Define infancy. Enumerate the growth and development during infancy. Discuss nurses role in the prevention of accidents during infancy (2+6+7=15)

 

Short Notes (5x5=25)

3. Etiology and pathophysiology of rheumatic fever

4. Wilm’s tumor

5. Low birth weight baby

6. Rights of children

7. Management of Hirschsprungs disease

 

Give reasons for the following (5x2=10)

8. Babies of diabetic mothers are prone to hypoglycaemia

9. Pulse rate should be monitored before administering digoxin.

10. Chocking in newborns with trachea-oesophageal fistula

11. Children should not be physically restrained during convulsions.

12. Careful feeding is needed in an infant with cleft lip and palate

 

Differentiate between (5x2=10)

13. Term and preterm neonate

14. Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

15. Meningocele and myelomeningocele

16. Phenylketonuria and galactosemia

17. Emphysema and empyema

 

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Earning:  ₹ 7.25/-