OpenStax Clinical Nursing Skills Nursing Test Bank
Chapter 14: Miscellaneous Medication Administration
OpenStax Clinical Nursing Skills
Nursing Test Bank
Chapter 14: Miscellaneous Medication Administration
Review Questions
Multiple Choice
1. Once they are opened, how quickly must eye instillations be used?
A. within 30 days*
B. within 21 days
C. within 10 days
D. within 7 days
LO: 14.1.1
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
AACN: 1.1a
2. Your patient needs eye medication that can be time-released for five days. What type of eye
instillations does your patient need?
A. eye drops
B. eye ointments
C. eye irrigations
D. eye medication disks*
LO: 14.1.1
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Remember, Understand, Apply
AACN: 1.1b
3. Rodney suffered a chemical injury to his left eye and needs emergency irrigation. Suzanne,
his nurse, immediately used water for irrigation. She instructed Rodney to close his eyes
and lean his head back while the water flushes his eye for at least 15 minutes. What is
wrong with Suzanne’s procedure to irrigate Rodney’s eye?
A. Suzanne only needed to flush Rodney’s eyes for a couple of minutes, not 15.
B. Suzanne should have used saline, not water, to irrigate Rodney’s eye.
C. Suzanne did not put anesthetic eye drops in Rodney’s eye before irrigating it with water.*
D. Suzanne should have flushed Rodney’s eye for at least 30 minutes.
LO: 14.1.2
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Chapter 14: Miscellaneous Medication Administration
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Remember, Understand, Apply
AACN: 1.1b
4. As part of medication administration, you must confirm the right route. The route for your
first patient is OS, and the route for your second patient is OU. What is the right route of
medication for the OS patient and then for the OU patient?
A. right eye, both eyes
B. left eye, both eyes*
C. right eye, left eye
D. left eye, right eye
LO: 14.1.3
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
AACN: 1.1a
5. What is the appropriate treatment when the ear is severely swollen or infected?
A. medicated ear wicks*
B. ear drops
C. ear irrigation
D. cerumen instillation
LO: 14.2.1
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember, Understand
AACN: 1.1a
6. Your patient is five years old, and you are performing ear irrigation on the patient. To
enable the irrigant to enter the ear more easily, what should you do?
A. pull the ear back and tilt the patient’s head to the side
B. pull the ear downward and back*
C. pull the ear upward and tilt the patient’s head to the side
D. pull the ear upward and back
LO: 14.2.2
Difficulty: Difficult
Blooms: Remember, Understand, Apply
AACN: 1.1b
7. When you perform an ear irrigation, what part of the ear should you point away from and
why?
A. tympanic membrane, to avoid making the patient dizzy
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Chapter 14: Miscellaneous Medication Administration
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Chapter 14: Miscellaneous Medication Administration
Review Questions
Multiple Choice
1. Once they are opened, how quickly must eye instillations be used?
A. within 30 days*
B. within 21 days
C. within 10 days
D. within 7 days
LO: 14.1.1
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
AACN: 1.1a
2. Your patient needs eye medication that can be time-released for five days. What type of eye
instillations does your patient need?
A. eye drops
B. eye ointments
C. eye irrigations
D. eye medication disks*
LO: 14.1.1
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Remember, Understand, Apply
AACN: 1.1b
3. Rodney suffered a chemical injury to his left eye and needs emergency irrigation. Suzanne,
his nurse, immediately used water for irrigation. She instructed Rodney to close his eyes
and lean his head back while the water flushes his eye for at least 15 minutes. What is
wrong with Suzanne’s procedure to irrigate Rodney’s eye?
A. Suzanne only needed to flush Rodney’s eyes for a couple of minutes, not 15.
B. Suzanne should have used saline, not water, to irrigate Rodney’s eye.
C. Suzanne did not put anesthetic eye drops in Rodney’s eye before irrigating it with water.*
D. Suzanne should have flushed Rodney’s eye for at least 30 minutes.
LO: 14.1.2
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Chapter 14: Miscellaneous Medication Administration
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Remember, Understand, Apply
AACN: 1.1b
4. As part of medication administration, you must confirm the right route. The route for your
first patient is OS, and the route for your second patient is OU. What is the right route of
medication for the OS patient and then for the OU patient?
A. right eye, both eyes
B. left eye, both eyes*
C. right eye, left eye
D. left eye, right eye
LO: 14.1.3
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
AACN: 1.1a
5. What is the appropriate treatment when the ear is severely swollen or infected?
A. medicated ear wicks*
B. ear drops
C. ear irrigation
D. cerumen instillation
LO: 14.2.1
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember, Understand
AACN: 1.1a
6. Your patient is five years old, and you are performing ear irrigation on the patient. To
enable the irrigant to enter the ear more easily, what should you do?
A. pull the ear back and tilt the patient’s head to the side
B. pull the ear downward and back*
C. pull the ear upward and tilt the patient’s head to the side
D. pull the ear upward and back
LO: 14.2.2
Difficulty: Difficult
Blooms: Remember, Understand, Apply
AACN: 1.1b
7. When you perform an ear irrigation, what part of the ear should you point away from and
why?
A. tympanic membrane, to avoid making the patient dizzy
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