ALL ATI CAPSTONE PROCTORED EXAM SCRIPT
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ Nurse must recommend clients for discharge in order to make
room for several critically injured clients from a local disaster.
Answer: A client who has cellulitis and is receiving oral antibiotics
every 8 hours.
◉ Developing a client education program about osteoporosis for
older adult clients. Answer: Sedentary lifestyle
◉ Charge is providing educational session about infection control
for a group of staff on isolation precautions. Answer: A client who
requires airborne precautions should be placed in a negative
pressure airflow room
◉ Preparing to assist with a thoracentesis for a client who has
pleurisy. Answer: Instruct the client to avoid deep breathing during
the procedure
◉ Caring for a school age child taking valporic acid. Diagnostic tests.
Answer: Serum liver enzyme levels
,◉ Inpatient mental health unit is monitoring a visit between client
with aggressive behavior and the client's partner. Answer: The client
is pacing around the chair in which his partner is sitting.
◉ Home health nurse evaluating a school age child with cystic
fibrosis initiates a request for high frequency chest compression
vest. Answer: My child has only a small amount of mucus after
percussion therapy
◉ Planning care for a client with left sided weakness following a
stroke. Answer: Support the client's left arm on a pillow while sitting
◉ caring for a client who has schizophrenia who recently started
risperidone. Answer: Implement fall precautions for the client
◉ Caring for a child with a fever and fluid filled vesicles on trunk and
extremities. Identify priority. Answer: Initiate transmission based
precautions
◉ Assessing client for compartment syndrome expected findings.
Answer: Edema
◉ Just received change of shift report on 4 clients. Which should the
nurse assess first. Answer: A client who is postop with abdominal
distention and no bowel sounds
, ◉ Assessing a client after administering epinephrine for
anaphylactic reactions. Identify adverse effect of this med. Answer:
Report of Chest pain
◉ Provide teaching to client 24 wks gestation scheduled for glucose
tolerance test. Answer: You will need to fast the night before the test.
◉ Assessing older adult client with pneumonia. Answer: acute
confusion
◉ Teaching for client about right to confidentiality. Answer: You can
provide a list of family members who can receive information about
the diagnosis.
◉ Caring for a client reporting nausea and vomiting the past 2 days.
Answer: Urine specific gravity 1.052
◉ Caring for a client postop after receiving moderate conscious
sedation suddenly becomes restless and reports feeling lightheaded.
Answer: Check the client's oxygen saturation level
◉ Assessing client who is 11 wks gestation and reports drinking
ginger tea. signs of it's effectiveness. Answer: The client reports a
decrease in episodes of nausea
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ Nurse must recommend clients for discharge in order to make
room for several critically injured clients from a local disaster.
Answer: A client who has cellulitis and is receiving oral antibiotics
every 8 hours.
◉ Developing a client education program about osteoporosis for
older adult clients. Answer: Sedentary lifestyle
◉ Charge is providing educational session about infection control
for a group of staff on isolation precautions. Answer: A client who
requires airborne precautions should be placed in a negative
pressure airflow room
◉ Preparing to assist with a thoracentesis for a client who has
pleurisy. Answer: Instruct the client to avoid deep breathing during
the procedure
◉ Caring for a school age child taking valporic acid. Diagnostic tests.
Answer: Serum liver enzyme levels
,◉ Inpatient mental health unit is monitoring a visit between client
with aggressive behavior and the client's partner. Answer: The client
is pacing around the chair in which his partner is sitting.
◉ Home health nurse evaluating a school age child with cystic
fibrosis initiates a request for high frequency chest compression
vest. Answer: My child has only a small amount of mucus after
percussion therapy
◉ Planning care for a client with left sided weakness following a
stroke. Answer: Support the client's left arm on a pillow while sitting
◉ caring for a client who has schizophrenia who recently started
risperidone. Answer: Implement fall precautions for the client
◉ Caring for a child with a fever and fluid filled vesicles on trunk and
extremities. Identify priority. Answer: Initiate transmission based
precautions
◉ Assessing client for compartment syndrome expected findings.
Answer: Edema
◉ Just received change of shift report on 4 clients. Which should the
nurse assess first. Answer: A client who is postop with abdominal
distention and no bowel sounds
, ◉ Assessing a client after administering epinephrine for
anaphylactic reactions. Identify adverse effect of this med. Answer:
Report of Chest pain
◉ Provide teaching to client 24 wks gestation scheduled for glucose
tolerance test. Answer: You will need to fast the night before the test.
◉ Assessing older adult client with pneumonia. Answer: acute
confusion
◉ Teaching for client about right to confidentiality. Answer: You can
provide a list of family members who can receive information about
the diagnosis.
◉ Caring for a client reporting nausea and vomiting the past 2 days.
Answer: Urine specific gravity 1.052
◉ Caring for a client postop after receiving moderate conscious
sedation suddenly becomes restless and reports feeling lightheaded.
Answer: Check the client's oxygen saturation level
◉ Assessing client who is 11 wks gestation and reports drinking
ginger tea. signs of it's effectiveness. Answer: The client reports a
decrease in episodes of nausea
