Exam 11: Nclex: What You Need to Know

What is an important factor to remember for graduates who decide to use group study as a means of preparing for the NCLEX-CAT, RN examination?

Choose the nursing action that is most appropriate for the collection of a stool specimen from a 3-year-old child who has had diarrhea for the past 4 days.

Identify the intervention by the nurse that is most appropriate when providing care for a client who has just returned to the surgical unit with a below-the-knee amputation.

Identify the activity instructions given by the nurse at the time of discharge to a client with acute hepatitis A that best promote the client's recovery.

Select the instructions by the nurse to a postoperative client who had a transsphenoidal hypophysectomy that best promote his recovery.

A client is being treated for depression with phenelzine (Nardil). Which statement by the client indicates that the goal for the client to understand the potential side effects of the antidepressant has been achieved?

Identify the best measure the nurse can take to limit the complications of a client who is developing compartment syndrome after a splint is applied to a fractured ankle.

Identify the action the nurse should take first when the low tidal volume alarm on a positive pressure, volume-cycled ventilator begins and continues to sound.

Which postbronchoscopy assessment observed by the nurse in a 54-year-old woman would require immediate intervention?

A client who is to receive external radiation therapy asks the nurse why the cancer cells in his body are so harmful. The nurse responds that a characteristic found in all cancer cells, called ____________________, allows the cells to reproduce in a different manner that is harmful to the healthy body tissues.

Identify the teaching point the nurse should include in the discharge plan for a renal transplant client about the risks of infection postoperatively.

Choose the dietary recommendations that are most appropriate for the nurse to make to a client who was diagnosed with hypoparathyroidism.

During the 0700 beginning of the shift assessment, the nurse finds a client who was diagnosed with type I diabetes mellitus to be difficult to arouse. Per unit protocol, arterial blood gases and a blood glucose are performed. The results show pH 7.01, PO₂ 92, PCO₂ 36, HCO₃ 9, blood glucose 873. What action should the nurse take first?

The pulse oximeter connected to a client with viral pneumonia, but who has no other underlying respiratory disease, has had readings between 79% and 88% for the past half hour. Identify the type of oxygen delivery system that is most effective for the nurse to initiate when the client complains of shortness of breath.

Which finding on the admission assessment would make the nurse question the order for a cerebral angiogram for the client?

A 78-year-old client who experiences angina after even minimal activity is treated with medications. Identify the medication mode of action that the nurse would give to best decrease myocardial oxygen consumption and reduce chest pain.

Identify the primary complications for which the nurse should monitor clients who have had a subtotal thyroidectomy for treatment of hyperthyroidism. (Select all that apply.)

Identify the instructions by the nurse that best help prevent complications from renal disease in a client who is being prepared for hemodialysis due to end-stage renal disease secondary to polycystic kidney disease.

The mother of four children brings her 6-year-old girl to the public health well-child clinic because the child has "scratched herself raw." The public health nurse diagnoses the child as having scabies and gives the mother appropriate medication for the child's treatment. Select the most appropriate instructions by the nurse to the mother of these four children.

Identify the nursing action that is most appropriate for a client who is diagnosed with injury to cranial nerves IX and X after a blow to the head.