Q.P. CODE: 302010 Reg. No: …………………...
Third Year B.Sc Nursing Degree Examinations October 2017
Child Health Nursing
Time: 3 Hrs Max. Marks: 75
Answer all questions
Draw diagram wherever necessary
Essays (2x15=30)
1. Define bronchial asthma. Explain the pathophysiology. Enumerate the clinical manifestations.
Describe the nursing management of a child with bronchial asthma.
2. Define infancy. Enumerate the growth and development during infancy. Discuss nurses role
in the prevention of accidents during infancy
Short Notes
3. Aetiology and pathophysiology of rheumatic fever
4. Wilm's tumour
5. Low birth weight baby
6. Rights of children
7. Management of hirschsprung's disease
Give reasons for the following
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
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