FREE Child Life Specialist Question and Answers

Question 1

Which unit may a child life specialist work in?

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All of the above

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Emergency Department

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NICU

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Peds/PICU

Question 2

A (n) child life specialist is:

Accepted Answer

Child Development Expert

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Play Therapist

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Entertainer of Sick Children

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Great Babysitter

Question 3

A child life specialist is capable to:

Accepted Answer

All of the above

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Clinically Educate and Prepare Patients/Families

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Create a Behavioral Management Plan

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Provide Therapeutic Interventions

Question 4

Which patient would receive LAST priority from the child life specialist?

Accepted Answer

The patient is bored with his video games and wants to pick out some new ones.

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The patient is an infant

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The patient is a psych patient

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The patient's brother/sister is obviously stressed or having a difficult time coping with his/her sibling's hospitalization.

Question 5

Which "comfort position" should be used to start an IV in a 3-year-old child?

Accepted Answer

Straddling parent's lap, with the patient's arm tucked under the parent's arm and extended straight out for vein access

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Supine, with arms and trunk restrained by health-care workers

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Laying on their side, with knees pulled up to their chest

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Swaddling

Question 6

Research and experience have shown that child life services like planning and therapeutic play are effective.

Accepted Answer

Help contain costs

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Are counter-productive

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Are billable services

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Are recommended but not cost efficient

Question 7

It is highly likely for a young child to think the following during the period of "magical thinking":

Accepted Answer

All of the above

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The pain they are experiencing is a punishment for a 'bad' thought they had about someone else.

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If they move after surgery their stitches will break open, exposing their internal organs.

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Their loved one who died will come back eventually.