Chapter 16: Preparing children and young people for hospitalisation

1. The final stage of unrelieved separation anxiety is:

  1. Anger
  2. Denial
  3. Protest
  4. Despair

Answer: B

2. How could the behaviour of a child in this situation be described?

  1. Playful
  2. Naughty
  3. Hilarious
  4. Apathetic

Answer: D

3. What factors about hospital care do children often find uncomfortable?

  1. The food
  2. The clowns
  3. The smell
  4. Disruption of their routine

Answer: D

4. Right up to the 1970s:

  1. Parents’ visiting to children’s wards was restricted
  2. Children’s nurses were not allowed to speak to parents
  3. Parents were not allowed to go home
  4. Parents were held responsible for their child’s health problems

Answer: A

5. In the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the term ‘promotion’ means:

  1. Offering children a better part-time job
  2. Advertising the benefits of childhood
  3. Aiming at improving children’s situation
  4. Identifying super-parents

Answer: C