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NURS 3632 EXAM 1,2 | COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE 2026 | VERIFIED ANSWERS | 100% CORRECT | GRADED A+| PASS GUARANTEED The client is hospitalized for the first time. Which of the following actions would the nurse take to ensure the safety of the client? - ANSWER️Keep unnecessary furniture out of the way After correctly positioning a client for a urinary catheterization procedure, the nurse sets up a sterile field and places the kit supplies on the area. The nurse hears a page to respond to another client who has fallen in the hallway. Which of the following would be the most appropriate nursing actions? - ANSWER️Ensure the client's safety, discard the sterile equipment, and respond to the other client. A patient's stool specimen is positive for Clostridium difficile. Which isolation precautions should the nurse institute for this patient? - ANSWER️Contact A nurse is following the principles of medical asepsis when performing patient care in a hospital setting. Which nursing action performed by the nurse follows these recommended guidelines? - ANSWER️The nurse moves the patient table away from the nurse's body when wiping it off after a meal The nurse has opened the sterile supplies and put on two sterile gloves to complete a sterile dressing change, a procedure that requires surgical asepsis. Which action by the nurse is appropriate? - ANSWER️Consider the outer 1 in of the sterile field as contaminated. The nurse caring for patients in a hospital setting institutes CDC standard precaution recommendations for which category of patients? - ANSWER️All patients receiving care in hospitals A nurse must make an unoccupied bed. Which nursing action is most important? - ANSWER️Ensure that the bottom of the sheet is free of wrinkles The nurse is providing hygiene to a patient with peripheral neuropathy. The nurse should: - ANSWER️Wash the feet with lukewarm water and dry well. A nurse is providing for the hygiene and grooming needs of an obese patient who easily becomes short of breath when moving about. Which is the most important nursing intervention? - ANSWER️Assessing response to activity A client who is unconscious needs frequent mouth care. While performing mouth care, the nurse takes care to place the client in which of the following positions? - ANSWER️Side-lying Which action would the nurse take to use a wide base of support when assisting a client to get up from a chair? - ANSWER️Spread the feet shoulder-width apart before touching the client. The nurse is preparing to assist with the ambulation of an older adult client who was on bed rest for three days. Which of the following actions should the nurse take to decrease the risk of a fall? - ANSWER️Use a gait belt during ambulation A client uses a cane to assist with ambulation. After teaching the client how to use a cane, the client makes the following statements. Which one indicates to the nurse the need for additional teaching? - ANSWER️"I should hold the cane on my weaker side." An emancipated patient is at risk for developing a pressure ulcer. In which position should the nurse avoid placing the patient? - ANSWER️Side lying The nurse identifies that a patient's pressure ulcer has just partial-thickness skin loss involving the epidermis and dermis. What stage pressure ulcer should the nurse document based on this assessment? - ANSWER️Stage 2 The nurse is assessing several clients with different types of injuries. The nurse would conclude that the client who is least likely to develop a wound infection would be the client with which of the following? - ANSWER️A contusion A client with a urinary catheter in place complains of discomfort in the bladder and the urethra. What should the nurse do first? - ANSWER️Check the patency of the catheter and tubing The nurse is assessing the urine of a client with a urinary tract infection. Which of these characteristics should the nurse assess for a patient with a UTI? - ANSWER️Clarity The nurse teaches a client measures to avoid complications associated with urinary elimination. Which of the following indicates to the nurse that the expected outcome is achieved? The client: - ANSWER️Incentivizes symptoms of and measures to prevent urinary tract infection The client complains of pain as the nurse is inflating the balloon during insertion of a Foley catheter. The nurse should take which immediate action? - ANSWER️Aspirate the fluid, advance the catheter farther, and reinflate the balloon. Through the prevention of postoperative complications, the nurse promotes rapid convalescence. Which of the following would be most indicative of a potential postoperative complication in a client that requires further observation? - ANSWER️Urinary output of 20 mL/hr over 2 hours Which nursing intervention for catheter care should have the highest priority? - ANSWER️Cleaning the area around the urethral meatus The client who is in Bucks traction is constipated. A plan of care that incorporates which breakfast would be the most helpful in reestablishing a normal bowel routine? - ANSWER️an orange, raisin bran, milk, and wheat toast with butter An elderly client asks the nurse how to treat chronic constipation. What is the best recommendation the nurse can make? - ANSWER️Take a stool softener such as docusate sodium (Colace) daily. A client with a new ileal conduit asks the nurse when he needs to wear his appliance. What should the nurse tell the client? - ANSWER️"You need to wear your appliance all the time." What observation should the nurse instruct the client with an ileostomy to report immediately? - ANSWER️absence of drainage from the ileostomy for 6 or more hours

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NURS 3632 EXAM 1,2 | COMPLETE STUDY
GUIDE 2026 | VERIFIED ANSWERS | 100%
CORRECT | GRADED A+| PASS
GUARANTEED


The client is hospitalized for the first time. Which of the following actions would
the nurse take to ensure the safety of the client? - ANSWER Keep unnecessary
furniture out of the way


After correctly positioning a client for a urinary catheterization procedure, the
nurse sets up a sterile field and places the kit supplies on the area. The nurse hears
a page to respond to another client who has fallen in the hallway. Which of the
following would be the most appropriate nursing actions? - ANSWER Ensure
the client's safety, discard the sterile equipment, and respond to the other client.


A patient's stool specimen is positive for Clostridium difficile. Which isolation
precautions should the nurse institute for this patient? - ANSWER Contact


A nurse is following the principles of medical asepsis when performing patient
care in a hospital setting. Which nursing action performed by the nurse follows
these recommended guidelines? - ANSWER The nurse moves the patient table
away from the nurse's body when wiping it off after a meal


The nurse has opened the sterile supplies and put on two sterile gloves to complete
a sterile dressing change, a procedure that requires surgical asepsis. Which action

,by the nurse is appropriate? - ANSWER Consider the outer 1 in of the sterile
field as contaminated.


The nurse caring for patients in a hospital setting institutes CDC standard
precaution recommendations for which category of patients? - ANSWER All
patients receiving care in hospitals


A nurse must make an unoccupied bed. Which nursing action is most important? -
ANSWER Ensure that the bottom of the sheet is free of wrinkles


The nurse is providing hygiene to a patient with peripheral neuropathy. The nurse
should: - ANSWER Wash the feet with lukewarm water and dry well.


A nurse is providing for the hygiene and grooming needs of an obese patient who
easily becomes short of breath when moving about. Which is the most important
nursing intervention? - ANSWER Assessing response to activity


A client who is unconscious needs frequent mouth care. While performing mouth
care, the nurse takes care to place the client in which of the following positions? -
ANSWER Side-lying


Which action would the nurse take to use a wide base of support when assisting a
client to get up from a chair? - ANSWER Spread the feet shoulder-width apart
before touching the client.

, The nurse is preparing to assist with the ambulation of an older adult client who
was on bed rest for three days. Which of the following actions should the nurse
take to decrease the risk of a fall? - ANSWER Use a gait belt during ambulation


A client uses a cane to assist with ambulation. After teaching the client how to use
a cane, the client makes the following statements. Which one indicates to the nurse
the need for additional teaching? - ANSWER "I should hold the cane on my
weaker side."


An emancipated patient is at risk for developing a pressure ulcer. In which position
should the nurse avoid placing the patient? - ANSWER Side lying


The nurse identifies that a patient's pressure ulcer has just partial-thickness skin
loss involving the epidermis and dermis. What stage pressure ulcer should the
nurse document based on this assessment? - ANSWER Stage 2


The nurse is assessing several clients with different types of injuries. The nurse
would conclude that the client who is least likely to develop a wound infection
would be the client with which of the following? - ANSWER A contusion


A client with a urinary catheter in place complains of discomfort in the bladder
and the urethra. What should the nurse do first? - ANSWER Check the patency
of the catheter and tubing


The nurse is assessing the urine of a client with a urinary tract infection. Which of
these characteristics should the nurse assess for a patient with a UTI? -
ANSWER Clarity

, The nurse teaches a client measures to avoid complications associated with urinary
elimination. Which of the following indicates to the nurse that the expected
outcome is achieved? The client: - ANSWER Incentivizes symptoms of and
measures to prevent urinary tract infection


The client complains of pain as the nurse is inflating the balloon during insertion
of a Foley catheter. The nurse should take which immediate action? -
ANSWER Aspirate the fluid, advance the catheter farther, and reinflate the
balloon.


Through the prevention of postoperative complications, the nurse promotes rapid
convalescence. Which of the following would be most indicative of a potential
postoperative complication in a client that requires further observation? -
ANSWER Urinary output of 20 mL/hr over 2 hours


Which nursing intervention for catheter care should have the highest priority? -
ANSWER Cleaning the area around the urethral meatus


The client who is in Bucks traction is constipated. A plan of care that incorporates
which breakfast would be the most helpful in reestablishing a normal bowel
routine? - ANSWER an orange, raisin bran, milk, and wheat toast with butter


An elderly client asks the nurse how to treat chronic constipation. What is the best
recommendation the nurse can make? - ANSWER Take a stool softener such as
docusate sodium (Colace) daily.

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