ATI FUNDAMENTALS PRACTICE A, B, & FINAL EXAM
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS
LATEST UPDATE THIS YEAR JUST RELEASED
Question 1: A nurse is planning to assess the abdomen of a client
who reports feeling bloated for several weeks. Which of the
following methods of assessment should the nurse use first?
Answer:
Inspection
Question 2: A nurse is explaining the use of written consent forms
to a newly-licensed nurse. The nurse should ensure consent forms
to a newly-licensed nurse. The nurse should ensure that a written
consent form has been signed by which of the following clients?
Answer:
A client who has a prescription for a transfusion of packed red blood cells
Question 3: A nurse is providing discharge teaching to a client who
is recovering from lung cancer. The provider to a client who is
recovering from lung cancer. The provider activities should the
nurse recommend to the client?
Answer:
Washing dishes
Question 4: A nurse is caring for a client who is receiving IV
therapy via a peripheral catheter. The nurse should ceiving IV
therapy via a peripheral catheter. The nurse should identify that
which of the following findings is an indication of infiltration?
,Answer:
Edema at the infusion site
Question 5: A nurse is caring for a client who has acute renal
failure. Which of the following assessments provides cute renal
failure. Which of the following assessments provides the most
accurate measure of the client's fluid status?
Answer:
Daily weight A nurse in a long-term care facility is admitting a client who
is incontinent and smells strongly of urine. His partner, who has been
caring for him at home, is embarrassed and apologizes for the smell.
Which of
Question 6: the following responses should the nurse make?
Answer:
"It must be difficult to care for someone who is confined to bed." A nurse
in a provider's office is assessing a client who has heart failure. The client
has gained weight since her last visit and her ankles are edematous.
Which of the following findings by the nurse is another
Question 7: clinical manifestation of fluid volume excess?
Answer:
Bounding pulse
Question 8: A nurse is caring for a client who is postoperative
following abdominal surgery. Which of the following stoperative
following abdominal surgery. Which of the following actions should
the nurse take first after discovering that the client's wound has
eviscerated?
,Answer:
Cover the incision with a moist sterile dressing.
Question 9: A nurse is teaching a client who has lower extremity
weakness how to use a four-point crutch gait. Which er extremity
weakness how to use a four-point crutch gait. Which of the
following instructions should the nurse include in the teaching?
Answer:
"Bear weight on both of your legs." A nurse in a provider's office is
collecting information from an older adult client who reports that he has
been taking acetaminophen 500 mg/day for severe joint pain. The nurse
should instruct the client that
Question 10: large doses of acetaminophen could cause which of
the following adverse effects?
Answer:
Liver Damage
Question 11: A nurse is planning to document care provided for a
client. Which of the following abbreviations should vided for a
client. Which of the following abbreviations should the nurse use?
Answer:
PC for after meals
Question 12: A nurse is responding to a parent's question about his
infant's expected physical development during the tion about his
infant's expected physical development during the first year of life.
Which of the following information should the nurse include?
Answer:
, A 10-month-old infant can pull up to a standing position.
Question 13: An assistive personnel (AP) is assisting a nurse with
the care of a female client who has an indwelling g a nurse with the
care of a female client who has an indwelling urinary catheter.
Which of the following actions by the AP indicates a need for
further teaching?
Answer:
The AP hangs the collection bag at the level of the bladder.
Question 14: A nurse is reviewing a client's medication
prescription, which reads, "digoxin 0.25 by mouth every day." on
prescription, which reads, "digoxin 0.25 by mouth every day."
Which of the following components of the prescription should the
nurse question?
Answer:
The dose
Question 15: A client who reports shortness of breath requests her
nurse's help in changing positions. After requests her nurse's help
in changing positions. After repositioning the client, which of the
following actions should the nurse take next?
Answer:
Observe the rate, depth, and character of the client's respirations.
Question 16: A nurse is caring for a client who, while sitting in a
chair, starts to experience a seizure. Which of the e sitting in a
chair, starts to experience a seizure. Which of the following actions
should the nurse take?
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS
LATEST UPDATE THIS YEAR JUST RELEASED
Question 1: A nurse is planning to assess the abdomen of a client
who reports feeling bloated for several weeks. Which of the
following methods of assessment should the nurse use first?
Answer:
Inspection
Question 2: A nurse is explaining the use of written consent forms
to a newly-licensed nurse. The nurse should ensure consent forms
to a newly-licensed nurse. The nurse should ensure that a written
consent form has been signed by which of the following clients?
Answer:
A client who has a prescription for a transfusion of packed red blood cells
Question 3: A nurse is providing discharge teaching to a client who
is recovering from lung cancer. The provider to a client who is
recovering from lung cancer. The provider activities should the
nurse recommend to the client?
Answer:
Washing dishes
Question 4: A nurse is caring for a client who is receiving IV
therapy via a peripheral catheter. The nurse should ceiving IV
therapy via a peripheral catheter. The nurse should identify that
which of the following findings is an indication of infiltration?
,Answer:
Edema at the infusion site
Question 5: A nurse is caring for a client who has acute renal
failure. Which of the following assessments provides cute renal
failure. Which of the following assessments provides the most
accurate measure of the client's fluid status?
Answer:
Daily weight A nurse in a long-term care facility is admitting a client who
is incontinent and smells strongly of urine. His partner, who has been
caring for him at home, is embarrassed and apologizes for the smell.
Which of
Question 6: the following responses should the nurse make?
Answer:
"It must be difficult to care for someone who is confined to bed." A nurse
in a provider's office is assessing a client who has heart failure. The client
has gained weight since her last visit and her ankles are edematous.
Which of the following findings by the nurse is another
Question 7: clinical manifestation of fluid volume excess?
Answer:
Bounding pulse
Question 8: A nurse is caring for a client who is postoperative
following abdominal surgery. Which of the following stoperative
following abdominal surgery. Which of the following actions should
the nurse take first after discovering that the client's wound has
eviscerated?
,Answer:
Cover the incision with a moist sterile dressing.
Question 9: A nurse is teaching a client who has lower extremity
weakness how to use a four-point crutch gait. Which er extremity
weakness how to use a four-point crutch gait. Which of the
following instructions should the nurse include in the teaching?
Answer:
"Bear weight on both of your legs." A nurse in a provider's office is
collecting information from an older adult client who reports that he has
been taking acetaminophen 500 mg/day for severe joint pain. The nurse
should instruct the client that
Question 10: large doses of acetaminophen could cause which of
the following adverse effects?
Answer:
Liver Damage
Question 11: A nurse is planning to document care provided for a
client. Which of the following abbreviations should vided for a
client. Which of the following abbreviations should the nurse use?
Answer:
PC for after meals
Question 12: A nurse is responding to a parent's question about his
infant's expected physical development during the tion about his
infant's expected physical development during the first year of life.
Which of the following information should the nurse include?
Answer:
, A 10-month-old infant can pull up to a standing position.
Question 13: An assistive personnel (AP) is assisting a nurse with
the care of a female client who has an indwelling g a nurse with the
care of a female client who has an indwelling urinary catheter.
Which of the following actions by the AP indicates a need for
further teaching?
Answer:
The AP hangs the collection bag at the level of the bladder.
Question 14: A nurse is reviewing a client's medication
prescription, which reads, "digoxin 0.25 by mouth every day." on
prescription, which reads, "digoxin 0.25 by mouth every day."
Which of the following components of the prescription should the
nurse question?
Answer:
The dose
Question 15: A client who reports shortness of breath requests her
nurse's help in changing positions. After requests her nurse's help
in changing positions. After repositioning the client, which of the
following actions should the nurse take next?
Answer:
Observe the rate, depth, and character of the client's respirations.
Question 16: A nurse is caring for a client who, while sitting in a
chair, starts to experience a seizure. Which of the e sitting in a
chair, starts to experience a seizure. Which of the following actions
should the nurse take?
