CLINICAL NURSING SKILLS AND
TECHNIQUES ACTUAL TEST BANK TESTED
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
●● What is the purpose of IV therapy?
Answer: To give fluids, medications, nutrition, blood products, or other
therapies directly into the bloodstream.
●● What are hypotonic fluids?
Answer: Fluids that move fluid from the blood vessels into the tissues,
with a major concern of dropping blood pressure.
●● What are isotonic fluids used for?
Answer: Volume replacement, but they increase the risk for fluid
overload in cardiac and renal patients.
●● What is a risk associated with hypertonic fluids?
Answer: They pull fluid from the tissues into the blood vessels, carrying
a high risk for fluid overload, pulmonary edema, and heart failure.
●● What are signs of fluid volume excess?
Answer: Weight gain, intake greater than output, crackles or rhonchi,
edema, shortness of breath, and worsening oxygenation.
,●● What are signs of fluid volume deficit?
Answer: Concentrated urine, low blood pressure, fever, flat veins,
sluggish capillary refill, poor skin turgor, thirst, weight loss, dry
skin/mucous membranes, elevated sodium, and elevated hematocrit.
●● What is the difference between peripheral and central vascular access
devices?
Answer: Peripheral IVs are short-term access devices that end in smaller
peripheral vessels, while central lines end in a central vessel and are
used for reliable or long-term access.
●● What techniques can help visualize or palpate a vein?
Answer: Place the arm in a dependent position, use warm compresses,
apply a tourniquet or BP cuff, have the patient open and close the fist,
and lightly stroke downward.
●● What does priming tubing mean?
Answer: Running fluid through tubing to remove air before connecting it
to the patient.
●● What should be assessed at the IV site?
Answer: Signs of infiltration, phlebitis, infection, pain, redness,
swelling, leaking, coolness, warmth, or loss of patency.
, ●● What are the 7 rights of medication administration?
Answer: Right medication, right dose, right route, right time, right
patient, right documentation, right indication.
●● What is a therapeutic effect?
Answer: The desired response from a medication.
●● What is the difference between a side effect and an adverse drug
reaction?
Answer: A side effect is a predictable secondary effect at a usual dose,
while an adverse drug reaction is an unintended and undesirable effect.
●● What is pharmacokinetics?
Answer: The study of how a drug is absorbed, distributed, metabolized,
and excreted in the body.
●● What is the peak level of a drug?
Answer: The highest drug concentration in the bloodstream.
●● What is the trough level of a drug?
Answer: The lowest drug concentration before the next dose.
TECHNIQUES ACTUAL TEST BANK TESTED
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
●● What is the purpose of IV therapy?
Answer: To give fluids, medications, nutrition, blood products, or other
therapies directly into the bloodstream.
●● What are hypotonic fluids?
Answer: Fluids that move fluid from the blood vessels into the tissues,
with a major concern of dropping blood pressure.
●● What are isotonic fluids used for?
Answer: Volume replacement, but they increase the risk for fluid
overload in cardiac and renal patients.
●● What is a risk associated with hypertonic fluids?
Answer: They pull fluid from the tissues into the blood vessels, carrying
a high risk for fluid overload, pulmonary edema, and heart failure.
●● What are signs of fluid volume excess?
Answer: Weight gain, intake greater than output, crackles or rhonchi,
edema, shortness of breath, and worsening oxygenation.
,●● What are signs of fluid volume deficit?
Answer: Concentrated urine, low blood pressure, fever, flat veins,
sluggish capillary refill, poor skin turgor, thirst, weight loss, dry
skin/mucous membranes, elevated sodium, and elevated hematocrit.
●● What is the difference between peripheral and central vascular access
devices?
Answer: Peripheral IVs are short-term access devices that end in smaller
peripheral vessels, while central lines end in a central vessel and are
used for reliable or long-term access.
●● What techniques can help visualize or palpate a vein?
Answer: Place the arm in a dependent position, use warm compresses,
apply a tourniquet or BP cuff, have the patient open and close the fist,
and lightly stroke downward.
●● What does priming tubing mean?
Answer: Running fluid through tubing to remove air before connecting it
to the patient.
●● What should be assessed at the IV site?
Answer: Signs of infiltration, phlebitis, infection, pain, redness,
swelling, leaking, coolness, warmth, or loss of patency.
, ●● What are the 7 rights of medication administration?
Answer: Right medication, right dose, right route, right time, right
patient, right documentation, right indication.
●● What is a therapeutic effect?
Answer: The desired response from a medication.
●● What is the difference between a side effect and an adverse drug
reaction?
Answer: A side effect is a predictable secondary effect at a usual dose,
while an adverse drug reaction is an unintended and undesirable effect.
●● What is pharmacokinetics?
Answer: The study of how a drug is absorbed, distributed, metabolized,
and excreted in the body.
●● What is the peak level of a drug?
Answer: The highest drug concentration in the bloodstream.
●● What is the trough level of a drug?
Answer: The lowest drug concentration before the next dose.
