A 10-year-old child in whom autism was diagnosed at the age of 3 years attends a school for developmentally disabled children an
d lives with parents. The child has frequent episodes of self-biting and head-banging and needs help with feeding and toileting. What is the priority nursing goal for this child?
The priority is safety; the child must be protected from self-harm. Repetitive behaviors are comforting, and unless they are harmful their limitation is not a priority. Although feeding independently is a basic need that may be achieved, it is not the priority. Children who need help with toileting are not necessarily incontinent, and it is not the priority.
The strategies do not include physical activity providing opportunities for competition in sport.
Option: (D)
<u>EXPLANATION:</u>
Physical education is an important component of total education of the child and it has been mandated that every state, district, and school in the United States requires physical education for its students.
The physical education programmes have to be improvised to good quality ones.
Knowing that 'physical activity promotes health' is not enough. NAPE has set five standards to inculcate fitness among children.
Those standards do not include the clause saying physical activity.
