ATI Comprehensive Exam 2024/2025
With Correct Answers
1. Do not delegate
What you can EAT E-evaluate A-assess T-teach
2. Addison's & Cushings
Addison's = down down down up down
Cushings= up up up down up
hypo/hypernatremia, hypo/hypertension, blood volume, hypo/hyperkalemia,
hypo/hyperglycemia
3. Better peripheral perfusion?
EleVate Veins, DAngle Arteries
4. APGAR
Appearance (all pink, pink and blue, blue (pale)
Pulse (>100, <100, absent)
Grimace (cough, grimace, no response)
Activity (flexed, flaccid, limp)
Respirations (strong cry, weak cry, absent)
, 5. Airborne precautions
My chicken hez tb (measles, chickenpox (varicella) Herpes zoster/shingles TB
6. Airborne precautions protective equip
private room, neg pressure with 6-12 air exchanges/hr mask N95 for TB
7. Droplet precautions
spiderman! sepsis, scarlet fever, streptococcal pharyngitis, parvovirus, pneumonia,
pertussis,
influenza,
diptheria,
epiglottitis,
rubella,
mumps, meningitis, mycoplasma or meningeal pneumonia, adeNovirus (Private room or
cohort mask!)
8. Contact precaution
MRS WEE
Multidrug resistant organism
Rresiratory infection
Skin infection
Wound infection
Enteric infection (C diff)
Eye infection (conjunctivitis)
9. Skin infection
, VCHIPS
Varicella zoster
Cutaneous diptheria
Herpes simplez
Impetigo
Peduculosis
Scabies
10. Air or Pulmonary Embolism
S/S chest pain, dyspnea, tachycardia, pale/cyanotic, sense of impending doom. (turn pt
to LEFT side and LOWER the head of bed.)
11. Woman in labor (un-reassuring FHR)
(late decels, decreased variability, fetal bradycardia, etc) Turn pt on Left side, give O2,
stop pitocin, Increase IV fluids!
12. Tube feeding with decreased LOC
Pt on Right side (promotes emptying of the stomach) Head of bed elevated (prevent
aspiration)
13. After lumbar puncture and oil based myelogram
pt is flat SUPINE (prevent headache and leaking of CSF)
14. Pt with heat stroke
flat with legs elevated
15. during Continuous Bladder Irrigation (CBI)
catheter is taped to the thigh. leg must be kept straight.
16. After Myringotomy
With Correct Answers
1. Do not delegate
What you can EAT E-evaluate A-assess T-teach
2. Addison's & Cushings
Addison's = down down down up down
Cushings= up up up down up
hypo/hypernatremia, hypo/hypertension, blood volume, hypo/hyperkalemia,
hypo/hyperglycemia
3. Better peripheral perfusion?
EleVate Veins, DAngle Arteries
4. APGAR
Appearance (all pink, pink and blue, blue (pale)
Pulse (>100, <100, absent)
Grimace (cough, grimace, no response)
Activity (flexed, flaccid, limp)
Respirations (strong cry, weak cry, absent)
, 5. Airborne precautions
My chicken hez tb (measles, chickenpox (varicella) Herpes zoster/shingles TB
6. Airborne precautions protective equip
private room, neg pressure with 6-12 air exchanges/hr mask N95 for TB
7. Droplet precautions
spiderman! sepsis, scarlet fever, streptococcal pharyngitis, parvovirus, pneumonia,
pertussis,
influenza,
diptheria,
epiglottitis,
rubella,
mumps, meningitis, mycoplasma or meningeal pneumonia, adeNovirus (Private room or
cohort mask!)
8. Contact precaution
MRS WEE
Multidrug resistant organism
Rresiratory infection
Skin infection
Wound infection
Enteric infection (C diff)
Eye infection (conjunctivitis)
9. Skin infection
, VCHIPS
Varicella zoster
Cutaneous diptheria
Herpes simplez
Impetigo
Peduculosis
Scabies
10. Air or Pulmonary Embolism
S/S chest pain, dyspnea, tachycardia, pale/cyanotic, sense of impending doom. (turn pt
to LEFT side and LOWER the head of bed.)
11. Woman in labor (un-reassuring FHR)
(late decels, decreased variability, fetal bradycardia, etc) Turn pt on Left side, give O2,
stop pitocin, Increase IV fluids!
12. Tube feeding with decreased LOC
Pt on Right side (promotes emptying of the stomach) Head of bed elevated (prevent
aspiration)
13. After lumbar puncture and oil based myelogram
pt is flat SUPINE (prevent headache and leaking of CSF)
14. Pt with heat stroke
flat with legs elevated
15. during Continuous Bladder Irrigation (CBI)
catheter is taped to the thigh. leg must be kept straight.
16. After Myringotomy
