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Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Stud guide

Overview

Study Guide Exam 2

DERM

Fundamentals of describing derm lesions and diagnosis & applying therapies from weeks 1 & 2

Warts, Molluscum & Fungal & Bacterial infections

Cardiology

Understand the screening process of the Pulse Oximetry test

Review basics of reading a chest Xray and which factors demonstrate an acceptable image.

What measurement indicates cardiomegaly

Recall the concept of the thymus in young children

Identification and treatment of various acquired heart diseases in children and teens

Review nutrition and immunization guidelines in Pediatric Cardiac Care Primary Care presentation

Murmurs

PDA

Medications safe

GI/GU

Recall the acute GI/GU conditions, signs and physical exam discussed in lecture such as IBD, UTIs (and complications), volvulus, intussusception, pyloric stenosis

Functional Abdominal pain

Be prepared to offer advice on re-hydration on a dehydrated child

Offer proper guidance to the family whose child has constipation

Offer proper guidance to the family whose child is being worked up for Celiac Disease

Picky eaters

Infantile Colic

Genetics

Review the hallmarks of Microdeletions: 22q11.2 (DiGeorge), 7q11.23 (Williams)

Review the concept of Imprinting: Prader–Willi vs Angelman (loss of paternal vs maternal chromosome 15q)

Conditions with atypical XY configurations, i.e. Klinefelter syndrome

“In an autosomal dominant inheritance pattern…” Males and females are affected similarly, as opposed to skipping a generation in an autosomal recessive or affecting only males or females in a sex-linked trait.