The nursing instructor is illustrating the various types of play. The instructor determines the class is successful when the students correctly choose which example as best representing onlooker play?

Choice A reason: Consents for surgery involve legal and procedural details, typically handled by providers, not nurses. Educating on growth and development is within nursing scope, making this incorrect, as it exceeds the nurse’s role in instructing families of a child with a chronic illness.

Choice B reason: Instructing on growth and development changes helps parents understand their child’s progress despite chronic illness, within the nurse’s educational role. This aligns with pediatric nursing practice, making it the correct situation for the nurse to provide instruction in the pediatrician’s office.

Choice C reason: Explaining diagnostic tests and lab work is typically the provider’s responsibility, as it involves medical interpretation. Growth and development education is nurse-appropriate, making this incorrect, as it falls outside the nurse’s primary instructional role for the chronically ill child’s family.

Choice D reason: Diagnosing secondary problems is a medical responsibility, not within nursing scope for instruction. Growth and development guidance is nurse-led, making this incorrect, as it involves diagnostic communication beyond the nurse’s role in educating the family of the chronically ill child.

Choice A reason: Intravenous administration isn’t inherently safer, as it carries risks like infection or extravasation. Less trauma from fewer injections is accurate, making this incorrect, as it overstates safety compared to the true benefit of reduced physical and emotional trauma in pediatric IV medication delivery.

Choice B reason: Intravenous medication reduces the need for multiple injections, minimizing physical and emotional trauma for children. This aligns with pediatric nursing principles for patient comfort, making it the correct statement about the advantage of IV administration compared to repeated intramuscular or subcutaneous injections.

Choice C reason: IV medications are absorbed rapidly, not slowly, due to direct bloodstream delivery. Less trauma from fewer injections is the true benefit, making this incorrect, as it misrepresents the pharmacokinetics of intravenous administration in the context of pediatric medication delivery.

Choice D reason: IV medication is delivered into veins, not fatty tissue, which describes subcutaneous injections. Reduced trauma from fewer injections is accurate, making this incorrect, as it confuses IV administration with another route in the nurse’s understanding of medication delivery methods.