OpenStax Clinical Nursing Skills Nursing Test Bank
Chapter 13: Intravenous Administration
OpenStax Clinical Nursing Skills
Nursing Test Bank
Chapter 13: Intravenous Administration
Review Questions
Multiple Choice
1. What should nurses use to maintain drugs with a narrow therapeutic window and eliminate
fluctuations between peak and trough concentrations?
A. intermittent infusion
B. push infusion
C. continuous infusion*
D. parenteral infusion
LO: 13.1.1
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
AACN: 1.1a
2. When you check your patient’s IV, you find that the surrounding tissue is infused with fluid.
What has happened?
A. inflammation
B. infiltration*
C. infection
D. phlebitis
LO: 13.1.2
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Remember, Understand, Apply
AACN: 1.1b
3. Your patient is experiencing tenderness along the vein that has an IV, and you’re also
noticing some redness. Upon further inspection, you find that the catheter is inserted at the
wrong angle. What problem is your patient experiencing?
A. extravasation
B. infection
C. infiltration
D. mechanical phlebitis*
LO: 13.1.2
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Chapter 13: Intravenous Administration
Difficulty: Difficult
Blooms: Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate
AACN: 1.1b
4. Your patient was doing fine but suddenly suffered shortness of breath, along with
lightheadedness, neck pain, and an increased heart rate. You check the patient’s IV and
notice nothing amiss with the IV or the injection site. What could be the problem?
A. air emboli*
B. extravasation
C. thrombosis
D. phlebitis
LO: 13.1.2
Difficulty: Difficult
Blooms: Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate
AACN: 1.1b
5. When providers use intravenous antibiotics, what can they control better?
A. bioavailability and dosing*
B. bioavailability and thrombosis
C. thrombosis and extravasation
D. extravasation and dosing
LO: 13.1.3
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
AACN: 1.1a
6. How does secondary tubing differ from primary tubing?
A. longer without access ports
B. shorter without access ports*
C. longer with multiple access ports
D. shorter with multiple access ports
LO: 13.2.2
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
AACN: 1.1a
7. When selecting a peripheral IV site, how should nurses start?
A. with the palmar side of the wrist
B. with the largest veins
C. with the veins in the patient’s dominant arm
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Chapter 13: Intravenous Administration
OpenStax Clinical Nursing Skills
Nursing Test Bank
Chapter 13: Intravenous Administration
Review Questions
Multiple Choice
1. What should nurses use to maintain drugs with a narrow therapeutic window and eliminate
fluctuations between peak and trough concentrations?
A. intermittent infusion
B. push infusion
C. continuous infusion*
D. parenteral infusion
LO: 13.1.1
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
AACN: 1.1a
2. When you check your patient’s IV, you find that the surrounding tissue is infused with fluid.
What has happened?
A. inflammation
B. infiltration*
C. infection
D. phlebitis
LO: 13.1.2
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Remember, Understand, Apply
AACN: 1.1b
3. Your patient is experiencing tenderness along the vein that has an IV, and you’re also
noticing some redness. Upon further inspection, you find that the catheter is inserted at the
wrong angle. What problem is your patient experiencing?
A. extravasation
B. infection
C. infiltration
D. mechanical phlebitis*
LO: 13.1.2
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Chapter 13: Intravenous Administration
Difficulty: Difficult
Blooms: Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate
AACN: 1.1b
4. Your patient was doing fine but suddenly suffered shortness of breath, along with
lightheadedness, neck pain, and an increased heart rate. You check the patient’s IV and
notice nothing amiss with the IV or the injection site. What could be the problem?
A. air emboli*
B. extravasation
C. thrombosis
D. phlebitis
LO: 13.1.2
Difficulty: Difficult
Blooms: Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate
AACN: 1.1b
5. When providers use intravenous antibiotics, what can they control better?
A. bioavailability and dosing*
B. bioavailability and thrombosis
C. thrombosis and extravasation
D. extravasation and dosing
LO: 13.1.3
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
AACN: 1.1a
6. How does secondary tubing differ from primary tubing?
A. longer without access ports
B. shorter without access ports*
C. longer with multiple access ports
D. shorter with multiple access ports
LO: 13.2.2
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
AACN: 1.1a
7. When selecting a peripheral IV site, how should nurses start?
A. with the palmar side of the wrist
B. with the largest veins
C. with the veins in the patient’s dominant arm
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