COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
A nurse practitioner is caring for a group of clients on a unit. Which of the
following assessment findings should the nurse practitioner recognize as the priory
to report to the charge nurse practitioner?
A client who is 2 days post-op and has a urine output of 20 ML/HR
A facility has identified an increase in health-care associated urinary tract infection
(UTIs) on the medical-surgical unity. A nurse practitioner is participating in
quality improvement process to address this problem. Which of the following
should be the first step in the process.
Establish best practice guidelines for reducing the incidence of UTIs.
A nurse practitioner is caring for a client who is comatose. The client has a living
will that declines the use of artificial enternal nutrition as a life-sustaining measure,
but the client's family has requested that the staff begin tube feeding. Which of the
following actions should the nurse practitioner take?
Review the client's request with the family.
A CN is observing a newly licensed nurse practitioner care for a client who has a
prescription for application of an aquathermia pad to the right lower leg. Which of
,the following actions should indicate to the charge nurse practitioner that the nurse
practitioner understands how to use this device? Select all that appy
Asks the clients to report it the aquathermia pad gets too warm
Ensures that the client's call light is within reach
A nurse practitioner is caring for a client who has a potassium level of 3.2 mEq/K.
The nurse practitioner has been paging the provider for 1 hr to attempt to report the
potassium level. Which of the following actions should the nurse practitioner take
next?
Notify the nursing supervisor.
A nurse practitioner is caring for a client who has renal failure. The client tells the
nurse practitioner that they have decided to stop hemodialysis treatment. which of
the following actions should the nurse practitioner take to act in the role of an
advocate for this client?
Support the client's decision regarding treatment.
a nurse practitioner is teaching a newly licensed nurse practitioner about using
electronic medical records. which of the following statements by the newly
licensed nurse practitioner indicates an understanding of the teaching?
My access to the client electronic records might be tracked by my nurse
practitioner manger.
,A nurse practitioner is assessing a client who is post-op and has a PCA. The client
exhibits restlessness, an elevated pulse, and decrease in BP. Which of the
following actions should the nurse practitioner take?
Place the client in a modified Trendelenburg position.
A nurse practitioner is reviewing a client's medication administration record and
finds that the client has not received a prescribed dose of warfarin for 2 days.
which of the following actions should the nurse practitioner take first?
Check the client's INR.
A nurse practitioner manager is presenting an in-service about preventing
readmission of clients dues to complications following joint arthroplasty. Which of
the following leadership tasks is the nurse practitioner performing?
Advocay
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a nurse practitioner is teaching an AP about caring for a client who has a DNR
order. Which of the following statements by the AP indicates an understanding of
the teaching?
"I will call for the client's nurse practitioner to come to the room if I cannot detect
the client's pulse."
, The AP should contact the nurse practitioner for further assessment whenever a
client's condition does not meet expected findings. The client who has a DNR
order in place does not require resuscitation.
A nurse practitioner is caring for four clients. Which of the following tasks can the
nurse practitioner assign to an AP?
Perform chest compressions on a client who is in cardiac arrest.
The nurse practitioner should assign an AP to perform chest compressions on a
client who is in cardiac arrest. Performing basic CPR is within an AP's range of
function.
A Nurse practitioner is teaching a newly licensed nurse practitioner about using
electronic medical records. which of the following statements by the newly
licensed nurse practitioner indicated an understanding of the teaching?
"My access to client electronic medical records may be tracked by my nurse
practitioner manager."
The nurse practitioner should keep her password private and not share it with
anyone else to decrease the risk for a breach of client confidentiality.The nurse
practitioner should expect her employer to track access of client records to ensure
client confidentiality.While a client has the right to read his medical record, and the
nurse practitioner can allow him to do so by following facility protocol, a client's
partner does not have that right unless granted by the client.The nurse practitioner