CPN CPE CIS study plan

Build a one-page growth-and-development reference that lists expected gross motor, fine motor, language, and social milestones at 2, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, and 24 months and at 3, 4, and 5 years, citing a single published schedule you can defend.

Explain in writing how to convert a plotted length, weight, and head circumference into a percentile and a z-score, and state the threshold that defines failure to thrive in an infant under 2 years.

Practice 15 developmental surveillance scenarios (e.g., a 9-month-old who does not sit unsupported, a 15-month-old with 3 words) and write the next-step referral or recheck interval for each with rationale.

Draft a 10-item checklist of age-specific assessment techniques (approach to the toddler, interview sequence for the school-age child, pubertal staging, and adolescent confidentiality) that you can apply at the bedside.

Compare primitive reflexes (Moro, palmar grasp, tonic neck, rooting) and their expected disappearance windows, and write two sentences on what persistence signals.

Map the assessment findings, first-line management, and family teaching points for the five highest-yield pediatric respiratory conditions (bronchiolitis, asthma exacerbation, croup, pneumonia, and foreign-body aspiration) into a comparison table.

Differentiate the dehydration classification (mild, moderate, severe) using weight loss, mental status, mucous membranes, tears, capillary refill, and urine output, and write the corresponding rehydration strategy for each tier.

Explain the pathophysiology and nursing priorities for two chronic conditions you find hardest (e.g., type 1 diabetes and sickle cell disease) in 300 words each, including the early signs of the most dangerous complication of each.

Interpret 10 sets of pediatric vital signs and basic laboratory values against age-specific normal ranges and flag which values require immediate escalation.

Write a script for teaching a caregiver to recognize and respond to respiratory distress at home, using plain language at roughly a sixth-grade reading level.

Construct a one-page pediatric resuscitation quick-reference covering compression depth and rate by age, ventilation rate, and the sequence for a witnessed versus unwitnessed collapse.

Calculate and verify weight-based doses for epinephrine, defibrillation energy, and fluid boluses across 5, 10, 20, and 40 kg patients, showing your arithmetic for each.

Rank the immediate nursing actions for shock, respiratory failure, status epilepticus, and anaphylaxis in order of priority, and justify each ordering decision in one sentence.

Describe the recognition and first response for child maltreatment and for an infant with an apparent life-threatening event, including who to notify and what to document.

Explain the triage categories of a standard five-level pediatric emergency scale and assign a level to 10 short vignettes with rationale.

Demonstrate the full medication-safety chain for a pediatric dose: right patient identification, weight-based calculation, independent double-check, and high-alert drug handling, and write the steps as a checklist.

Calculate 20 practice doses involving mg/kg, unit/kg/hour infusions, and dilution of a concentrated stock solution, achieving at least 90 percent accuracy without a calculator for the arithmetic steps.

Compare the safe administration considerations for oral, intramuscular, subcutaneous, and intravenous routes in infants and children, including site selection and volume limits.

Identify compatibility, filtration, and concentration limits for common pediatric intravenous fluids and drugs, and list five situations that require central rather than peripheral access.

Describe the signs, prevention, and immediate management of infiltration, extravasation, phlebitis, and catheter-related bloodstream infection, and state what must be documented for each.

Build an age-banded anticipatory guidance grid (newborn, 2 months, 6 months, 12 months, 2 years, 5 years, adolescence) covering nutrition, sleep safety, injury prevention, immunization timing, and screen time, with one concrete teaching point per cell.

Write three role-play scripts demonstrating family-centered communication: delivering a new chronic diagnosis, addressing a vaccine-hesitant parent, and supporting a family with limited health literacy.

Explain how to conduct a family interview that maps the household structure, primary caregiver, cultural health beliefs, and social determinants, and list the questions you would ask.

Describe the principles of trauma-informed and developmentally appropriate communication with a child at three ages (preschool, school-age, adolescent) and give a sample sentence for each.

Identify the reporting and advocacy obligations for suspected neglect, and outline how to escalate a social-determinant barrier such as food insecurity or housing instability.

Explain the purpose and application of a pediatric early-warning scoring tool, and walk through how you would escalate a rising score on a busy unit.

Describe the components of a root-cause analysis and a plan-do-study-act improvement cycle, and outline how each would address a pediatric medication error or a fall.

Summarize the scope of practice, delegation rules, and mandatory reporting duties that apply to your licensure, and note where your state or province differs.

List the elements of informed consent and assent for a pediatric procedure and identify who can consent in situations involving separated or foster parents.

Analyze two short quality cases (a missed deterioration and a wrong-patient error) using a systems lens rather than individual blame, naming the latent conditions involved.

Revisit every item you flagged as uncertain during weeks 1 through 6 and resolve each one by writing the correct concept and why you missed it.

Complete two timed mixed-domain practice sets of at least 50 items each, and log the domain, error type (knowledge gap, misread, calculation, or priority-judgment), and the fix for every miss.

Redo all previously missed calculation and priority-ordering items until you reach 100 percent accuracy on a second attempt.

Teach two high-yield concepts aloud from memory, one from growth and development and one from emergency care, as if explaining to a new graduate.

Take one full-length timed simulated examination under test-day conditions and score it by domain to identify your two weakest areas.

Spend the first half of the week rebuilding only those two weakest areas using your own reference sheets and error log.

Recite from memory the milestone windows, dehydration tiers, resuscitation parameters, and high-alert medication checks without notes.

Write a one-page test-day plan covering pacing per item, when to flag and move on, and how you will handle priority-style questions.

Review your error log one final time and confirm every entry has a resolved correction.