School Age Child

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Physical growth:

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Height: 2 inches per year. 6 year old about 45 inches, and 12 year old about 59 inches.

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Physical maturity v/s emotional maturity:

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Physical appearance not congruent to emotional maturity.

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Gross motor skills:

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Brain developed by age 10.

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Weight change of:

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4.5-6.4 lbs per year.
6 year old about 46 lbs, 12 year old about 88 lbs.

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Fine motor skills:

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Print by 1st grade, 8 year old learns cursive.

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Concrete operations are:

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Ready to learn, able to reason, literal, can't do abstract thinking, think symbolically.

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Conservation:

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What weighs more? A ton of feathers or a ton of rocks?

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Classification skills:

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Likes to collect things.

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Cognitive development:

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Ability to read, knows right from left, concept of death/illness. Have a deeper understanding of death in a concrete sense.

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Psychosocial development: Industry v/s inferiority:

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Eager to develop skills, personal and interpersonal competence, increasing independence, complete tasks, increasing cooperation.

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Inferiority:

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Social relationships, peer group, best friends, boys only club, secrets, school experience, family protection

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Play consists of:

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Cooperative - working together as a team
Team Play - Competition, other activities, sports.

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Early school age:

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Behavior governed by rules, rewards and external motivations.

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Later school age:

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Judge acts by more than just consequences; what is the intent of the act; considers feelings of others, internal motivation.

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Health promotion includes:

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Screening, well child visits, immunizations. Nutrition - decreased caloric needs, obesity, sedentary lifestyle, increase calories, 16% of children 6-19 are overweight, dental care.

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Tooth avulsion:

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1. Recover tooth and hold by crown not root, 2. Rinse in water or saline, 3. Replace or put under tongue or in milk, 4. See dentist immediately, 5. If replaced in 30 mins, 70% chance of reattachment.

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Safety:

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Car safety, MVA/bikes, drowning, burns, poisonings, bodily damage, homicide/suicide.

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Head lice: Pediculosis Capitis treatment:

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olive oil or alcohol gel. For active lesions, 1% permethrin

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Scabies is usually found:

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Between the fingers, rash on the hands, burrows are visible.

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Management of scabies:

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Application of scabicide, such as permethrin cream, apply to all skin services from neck down to toes, all clothing, bedding and towels used by infested person 3 days before treatment should be washed in hot water and dried in hot dryer.

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Latch key children need:

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Keys, remember closed door policy, checking in, phone calls, snacks, visiting friends, stay inside, no internet, alone with siblings.