NCLEX-PN EXAM PREP REAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS | GRADED A+ | LATEST EDITION (2025) | JUST RELEASED | COMPLETE SOLUTIONS | EXPERT VERIFIED

NCLEX-PN EXAM PREP REAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS | GRADED A+ | LATEST EDITION (2025) | JUST RELEASED | COMPLETE SOLUTIONS | EXPERT VERIFIED You are caring for a 14-month-old diagnosed with severe iron deficiency anemia. She is admitted for a blood transfusion and is started on oral iron supplementation. When you change her diaper, you note a dark black stool. What are the appropriate nursing actions? Select ALL A. Notify the healthcare provider. B. Document the finding. C. Continue with your assessment. D. Administer the oral iron supplement as prescribed Choices B, C, and D are correct. B is correct. Black stools are an expected response to iron supplementation. It is an appropriate nursing action to document this finding in the chart, but no further action is needed. C is correct. Black stools are an expected response to iron supplementation. It is an appropriate nursing action to continue with your assessment. Since the finding is expected, no other steps are necessary. D is correct. Black stools are an expected response to iron supplementation. It is an appropriate nursing action to administer the oral iron supplement as prescribed. Choice A is incorrect. Black stools are an expected response to iron supplementation. The nurse doesn't need to notify the healthcare provider of this. NCSBN Client Need Topic: Physiological Integrity, Subtopic: Pharmacological therapies, Pediatrics Hematology The nurse is re-educating on discharge instructions to a patient who has chronic diabetes insipidus (DI). Which of the following patient statements would indicate a correct understanding of the discharge instructions? A. "I will need to drink no more than 800 ml per day." B. "I will need to weigh myself at the same time every day." C. "I should increase salty snacks in my diet." D. "I need to log my fluid intake and urine output." Choice B is correct. A patient with chronic diabetes insipidus (DI) is instructed to weigh themselves daily. This weight should be taken with the same scale and obtained after the first- morning void. Choices A, C, and D are incorrect. Fluid restrictions would be appropriate for a patient with syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (SIADH). This would not be appropriate for DI as the patient will need to consume more fluids to replace those that are lost. Salty snacks are not encouraged because this may hasten the hypernatremia associated with this disease. Logging intake and output are not useful because this provides a crude way of assessing fluid status.