Educational Resource Center I Prevention of Infant/Child Abduction Module

  Prevention of Infant/Child Abduction 
Post Assessment


Special note: Credit for required requirements will be given upon successful completion of this post test. Participants must achieve 80% or higher on each module.   Test results will be forwarded to your nurse manager.


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6 questions

  1. Prevention of infant abduction is the primary responsibility of which employees?
         a)  employees of Women and Infants Services
         b)  charge nurses for the nursery and pediatric units
         c)  nursing employees and parents
         d)  all employees

  2. The profile of the typical abductor includes:
         a)  criminal record for violent crimes, lives alone, immature
         b)  no violent criminal record, lives alone, beyond childbearing years of age
         c)  female, lives alone, beyond childbearing years of age
         d)  involved in a relationship, emotionally immature, no criminal record

  3. The following steps are to be taken when an infant abduction is suspected :
         a)  notify the charge nurse
         b)  the charge nurse notifies the campus police department
         c)  the charge nurse assigns personnel to the nearest exit until the police can arrive
         d)  all of the above

  4. Correct newborn infant identification practices at UTMB include which of the following:
         a)  matching wristbands on infant’s arm and leg
         b)  numerically matching wrist band and umbilical clamp on the infant
         c)  both a and b
         d)  password name on infant and mother’s wristband

  5. Which of the following is a suspicious situation which requires intervention?
         a)  young child wearing a hospital gown observed with an adult buying a Mrs. Field’s cookie
         b)  young woman in scrub attire carrying an infant towards MRI department
         c)  male with a non-dolphin ID badge, scrubs and lab coat pushing a large crib with a toddler in it down the hall on the second floor
         d)  mature looking woman wearing scrubs, lab coat, dolphin ID badge pushing a newborn crib toward the postpartum unit

  6. Parents are involved in protecting their hospitalized infant or child by:
         a)  keeping a deliberate, watchful eye on the infant/child at all times
         b)  meeting with hospital security to discuss abductor profiles
         c)  not giving their infant/child to anyone without proper hospital identification
         d)  both a and c

Educational Resource Center                           Prevention of Infant/Child Abduction Module


 

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