A nurse is assessing an older school-age child recently admitted to the hospital.Which assessment does the nurse perform to determine if child is in an appropriate stage of cognitive development?

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The ability to classify things from simple to complex and the ability to identify differences and similarities are cognitive skills of the older school-age child; this demonstrates use of classification and logical thought processes.The emergency of this ability explains why children of this age enjoy collecting things.Subtraction and addition are appropriate cognitive activities for the young school-age child.Vocabulary is not as valid an assessment of cognitive ability as is the child's ability to classify.Play activity is not as valid an assessment of cognitive function as is the child's ability to classify.

A Nurse Is Assessing an Older School-Age Child Recently Admitted