ATI CMS EXAM TEST BANK
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS LATEST GUIDE
2026/2027 GRADED A+ .
,1. A nurse is preparing an in-service for an annual skills fair at a community medical facility about fire safety.
Place the steps in the order in which they should be performed in the case of a fire emergency. (Move the steps
into the box on the right, placing them in the selected order of performance. Use all the steps.)
A. Pull the fire alarm.
B. Confine the fire.
C. Extinguish the fire.
D. Rescue the clients. ✓✓ CORRECT ANSWER D. Rescue the clients.
A. Pull the fire alarm.
B. Confine the fire.
C. Extinguish the fire.
2. A nurse is caring for a client who is dying of metastatic breast cancer. She has a prescription for an opioid pain
medication PRN. The nurse is concerned that administering a dose of pain medication might hasten the client's
death. Which of the following ethical principles should the nurse use to support the decision not to administer
the medication?
A. Utilitarianism
B. Nonmaleficence
C. Fidelity
D. Veracity ✓✓ CORRECT ANSWER B. Nonmaleficence
3. A charge nurse is reviewing the list of tasks that have been delegated to the assistive personnel (AP) by the staff
nurse. Which of the following tasks should the charge nurse reassign to a licensed nurse?
A. Transporting a client who experienced a stroke 72 hr ago to the radiology department
B. Providing a back rub to a client who has right-sided paralysis
C. Removing and cleaning the cannula of a client who has a new tracheosto- my
D. Performing oral hygiene for a client who is 1 day postoperative following an amputation of the right arm ✓✓
CORRECT ANSWER C. Removing and cleaning the cannula of a client who has a new tracheostomy
,4. A nurse working in an emergency department is caring for a client who has been exposed to sarin gas
following a bioterrorism attack. Which of the following interventions should the nurse plan to take?
A. Vigorously rub the skin following a decontamination shower.
B. Initiate seizure precautions.
C. Provide respiratory support with a plastic oral airway.
D. Prepare to administer amyl nitrate. ✓✓ CORRECT ANSWER B. Initiate seizure precautions.
5. .A nurse in the emergency department is triaging clients following a mass casualty event. The nurse should
identify which of the following clients as emergent?
A. A client who has a punctured femoral artery
B. A client who has multiple fractures
C. A client who has a red rash over his abdomen
D. A client who reports severe flank pain radiating to the groin ✓✓ CORRECT ANSWER A. A client who has a punctured
femoral artery
6. A nurse manager received a client request not to have a specific staff nurse care for her while at the acute care
facility. Which of the following is the appropriate action by the nurse manager?
A. Ask other staff nurses about the level of care the specific staff nurse provides.
B. Address the concern with the specific staff nurse.
C. Recommend the specific staff nurse be transferred to another unit.
D. Notify the human resources department about the request. ✓✓ CORRECT ANSWER B. Address the concern
with the specific statt nurse.
7. A nurse finds that a client did not receive a scheduled dose of furosemide (Lasix). Which of the following
should the nurse include in the incident/vari- ance report? (Select all that apply.)
A. The date of the incident
B. The name of the provider who prescribed the medication
C. The potential adverse effects of the medication
D. The time the client was to receive the medication
E. The client's vital signs ✓✓ CORRECT ANSWER A. The date of the incident
, D. The time the client was to receive the medication
E. The client's vital signs
8. A nurse is caring for a client who has a history of dementia. The client is alert and oriented to person, place,
and time, and has advance directives. The client is scheduled for a procedure that requires informed consent.
Which of the following persons should sign the informed consent?
A. The client's partner
B. The client
C. The client's daughter, who is the primary caregiver
D. The client's son, who has a durable power of attorney ✓✓ CORRECT ANSWER B. The client
9. A nurse manager is observing the care provided by a nurse who is in orien- tation to the unit. Which of the
following actions by the nurse indicates the nurse manager should intervene?
A. The nurse uses clean gloves when discontinuing a client's intravenous infusion.
B. The nurse empties a client's drainable colostomy pouch when it is one-third full.
C. The nurse uses the client's telephone number as one form of identification when administering medications
to a client.
D. The nurse opens the top flap of a sterile tray toward the body when assisting the provider with a thoracentesis. ✓
✓ CORRECT ANSWER D. The nurse opens the top flap of a sterile tray toward the body when assisting the provider with a thoracentesis.
10. A nurse is caring for four clients who are postoperative from surgery 24 hr
ago. At 1200 the nurse assesses the clients. Which of the following clients is the nurse's priority?
A. A client who has a prescription for insulin and his pre-meal capillary blood glucose was 110 mg/dL and his post-
meal capillary blood glucose is now 160 mg/dL
B. A client whose wound drainage at 0800 was sanguineous and now it is serosanguineous
C. A client who reports pain as 4 on a scale of 1 to 10 at 0800 now reports pain as 6
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS LATEST GUIDE
2026/2027 GRADED A+ .
,1. A nurse is preparing an in-service for an annual skills fair at a community medical facility about fire safety.
Place the steps in the order in which they should be performed in the case of a fire emergency. (Move the steps
into the box on the right, placing them in the selected order of performance. Use all the steps.)
A. Pull the fire alarm.
B. Confine the fire.
C. Extinguish the fire.
D. Rescue the clients. ✓✓ CORRECT ANSWER D. Rescue the clients.
A. Pull the fire alarm.
B. Confine the fire.
C. Extinguish the fire.
2. A nurse is caring for a client who is dying of metastatic breast cancer. She has a prescription for an opioid pain
medication PRN. The nurse is concerned that administering a dose of pain medication might hasten the client's
death. Which of the following ethical principles should the nurse use to support the decision not to administer
the medication?
A. Utilitarianism
B. Nonmaleficence
C. Fidelity
D. Veracity ✓✓ CORRECT ANSWER B. Nonmaleficence
3. A charge nurse is reviewing the list of tasks that have been delegated to the assistive personnel (AP) by the staff
nurse. Which of the following tasks should the charge nurse reassign to a licensed nurse?
A. Transporting a client who experienced a stroke 72 hr ago to the radiology department
B. Providing a back rub to a client who has right-sided paralysis
C. Removing and cleaning the cannula of a client who has a new tracheosto- my
D. Performing oral hygiene for a client who is 1 day postoperative following an amputation of the right arm ✓✓
CORRECT ANSWER C. Removing and cleaning the cannula of a client who has a new tracheostomy
,4. A nurse working in an emergency department is caring for a client who has been exposed to sarin gas
following a bioterrorism attack. Which of the following interventions should the nurse plan to take?
A. Vigorously rub the skin following a decontamination shower.
B. Initiate seizure precautions.
C. Provide respiratory support with a plastic oral airway.
D. Prepare to administer amyl nitrate. ✓✓ CORRECT ANSWER B. Initiate seizure precautions.
5. .A nurse in the emergency department is triaging clients following a mass casualty event. The nurse should
identify which of the following clients as emergent?
A. A client who has a punctured femoral artery
B. A client who has multiple fractures
C. A client who has a red rash over his abdomen
D. A client who reports severe flank pain radiating to the groin ✓✓ CORRECT ANSWER A. A client who has a punctured
femoral artery
6. A nurse manager received a client request not to have a specific staff nurse care for her while at the acute care
facility. Which of the following is the appropriate action by the nurse manager?
A. Ask other staff nurses about the level of care the specific staff nurse provides.
B. Address the concern with the specific staff nurse.
C. Recommend the specific staff nurse be transferred to another unit.
D. Notify the human resources department about the request. ✓✓ CORRECT ANSWER B. Address the concern
with the specific statt nurse.
7. A nurse finds that a client did not receive a scheduled dose of furosemide (Lasix). Which of the following
should the nurse include in the incident/vari- ance report? (Select all that apply.)
A. The date of the incident
B. The name of the provider who prescribed the medication
C. The potential adverse effects of the medication
D. The time the client was to receive the medication
E. The client's vital signs ✓✓ CORRECT ANSWER A. The date of the incident
, D. The time the client was to receive the medication
E. The client's vital signs
8. A nurse is caring for a client who has a history of dementia. The client is alert and oriented to person, place,
and time, and has advance directives. The client is scheduled for a procedure that requires informed consent.
Which of the following persons should sign the informed consent?
A. The client's partner
B. The client
C. The client's daughter, who is the primary caregiver
D. The client's son, who has a durable power of attorney ✓✓ CORRECT ANSWER B. The client
9. A nurse manager is observing the care provided by a nurse who is in orien- tation to the unit. Which of the
following actions by the nurse indicates the nurse manager should intervene?
A. The nurse uses clean gloves when discontinuing a client's intravenous infusion.
B. The nurse empties a client's drainable colostomy pouch when it is one-third full.
C. The nurse uses the client's telephone number as one form of identification when administering medications
to a client.
D. The nurse opens the top flap of a sterile tray toward the body when assisting the provider with a thoracentesis. ✓
✓ CORRECT ANSWER D. The nurse opens the top flap of a sterile tray toward the body when assisting the provider with a thoracentesis.
10. A nurse is caring for four clients who are postoperative from surgery 24 hr
ago. At 1200 the nurse assesses the clients. Which of the following clients is the nurse's priority?
A. A client who has a prescription for insulin and his pre-meal capillary blood glucose was 110 mg/dL and his post-
meal capillary blood glucose is now 160 mg/dL
B. A client whose wound drainage at 0800 was sanguineous and now it is serosanguineous
C. A client who reports pain as 4 on a scale of 1 to 10 at 0800 now reports pain as 6
