PN FINAL EXAM STUDYGUIDE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. The nurse is caring for a client in a long-term care facility. Which action contributes to
encouraging autonomy in the client:
Answer:
Allowing the client to choose social activities.
Question:
2. A male client with terminal illness is unconscious. His wife wants his status to be full code.
His sister, who is the durable power of at least which person has legal precedence.
Answer:
The Sister's The Sister's wishes are legally binding wishes are legally binding
Question:
3. While sponging a client who has a high fever, the nurse observes the client shivering.
Which is the nurse's priority action?
Answer:
D) Stopping Sponging the client.
Question:
4. In which of the following answers in the answers is the hospital in compliance with the
Consolidation Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act and E Answer
Answer:
B) A client chest pain is triaged directly to a room for evaluation and registration information is
obtained after the....."
Question:
5. A client will be undergoing palliative surgery. The client's daughter asks what this meant.
What is the nurse's best response? Answer
Answer:
D) The surgery will relieve the symptoms but will not cure your father,"
Question:
6. A client had a colon resection for the removal of a cancerous tumor. Postoperatively, on
the surgical floor which of the following activities postoperative complications? (Select all the
apply) Answer
Answer:
B) Assist the client to turn, breathe deeply and cough every 2 hours
D) Monitor vital sign on a regular basis.
E) Assess the drainage from the surgical site.
Question:
, 7. The nurse is interviewing a client to help the health care provider determine the client's
for osteomalacia. Answer
Answer:
D) Typical 24-hour dietary intakes
Question:
8. The nurse notes the client's temperature over the past 24hours risen from 98.8 to 101.6 F
the nurse completes a head-to-toe assessment. Based on the nurse's documentation what is
the nurse next action? 14:00 temperature 101.6 F pulse 88 beat/minute. Respiration 24
breaths/minute. Blood pressure 132/78 mm Hg lung clear. Harsh cough noted. Sputum.
Denies chest pain sounds in all 4 quadrants. Last bowel movement this morning. Voiding
dark amber urine. Gait steady with ambulation. No lower extremity edema noted. R. Brown,
RN Answer
Answer:
D) Notify the health care provider
Question:
9. A student nurse is educating a client with newly diagnosed osteoporosis. Which statement
nurse would not apply to diagnosis of osteoporosis? Answer
Answer:
D) Osteoporosis is degeneration disease characterized by the decrease in bone density.
Question:
10. A diagnosed with lung cancer who is receiving morphine complains of constipation.
Which instruction(s) by the nurse might help relieve the client's constipation? (Select all that
apply) Answer regarding the need to avoid enteric-coated medication. The nurse knows that
the client understands the reason for this teaching when the client the following? Answer
Answer:
A) Drink at least eight 8-ounce glasses of water each day
B) Be sure the amount of fruit, vegetables and fiber in your diet is adequate."
D) Include psyllium supplements in your diet daily".
E) Increase your exercise routine to include 1 hour of exercise every day." tion are absorbed
lower in the digestive tract and can be irritating to my intestines or inadequately absorbed by my
inflamed tissue."
Question:
11. which one of the following statements by the parent of a child indicates that further
teaching by the nurse is required?
Answer:
A) Now that my child is 2 years old, I can let her sit in the front seat of the car with me."
Question:
12. pressure ulcer form primarily as a result of which of the following?
Answer:
Question:
1. The nurse is caring for a client in a long-term care facility. Which action contributes to
encouraging autonomy in the client:
Answer:
Allowing the client to choose social activities.
Question:
2. A male client with terminal illness is unconscious. His wife wants his status to be full code.
His sister, who is the durable power of at least which person has legal precedence.
Answer:
The Sister's The Sister's wishes are legally binding wishes are legally binding
Question:
3. While sponging a client who has a high fever, the nurse observes the client shivering.
Which is the nurse's priority action?
Answer:
D) Stopping Sponging the client.
Question:
4. In which of the following answers in the answers is the hospital in compliance with the
Consolidation Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act and E Answer
Answer:
B) A client chest pain is triaged directly to a room for evaluation and registration information is
obtained after the....."
Question:
5. A client will be undergoing palliative surgery. The client's daughter asks what this meant.
What is the nurse's best response? Answer
Answer:
D) The surgery will relieve the symptoms but will not cure your father,"
Question:
6. A client had a colon resection for the removal of a cancerous tumor. Postoperatively, on
the surgical floor which of the following activities postoperative complications? (Select all the
apply) Answer
Answer:
B) Assist the client to turn, breathe deeply and cough every 2 hours
D) Monitor vital sign on a regular basis.
E) Assess the drainage from the surgical site.
Question:
, 7. The nurse is interviewing a client to help the health care provider determine the client's
for osteomalacia. Answer
Answer:
D) Typical 24-hour dietary intakes
Question:
8. The nurse notes the client's temperature over the past 24hours risen from 98.8 to 101.6 F
the nurse completes a head-to-toe assessment. Based on the nurse's documentation what is
the nurse next action? 14:00 temperature 101.6 F pulse 88 beat/minute. Respiration 24
breaths/minute. Blood pressure 132/78 mm Hg lung clear. Harsh cough noted. Sputum.
Denies chest pain sounds in all 4 quadrants. Last bowel movement this morning. Voiding
dark amber urine. Gait steady with ambulation. No lower extremity edema noted. R. Brown,
RN Answer
Answer:
D) Notify the health care provider
Question:
9. A student nurse is educating a client with newly diagnosed osteoporosis. Which statement
nurse would not apply to diagnosis of osteoporosis? Answer
Answer:
D) Osteoporosis is degeneration disease characterized by the decrease in bone density.
Question:
10. A diagnosed with lung cancer who is receiving morphine complains of constipation.
Which instruction(s) by the nurse might help relieve the client's constipation? (Select all that
apply) Answer regarding the need to avoid enteric-coated medication. The nurse knows that
the client understands the reason for this teaching when the client the following? Answer
Answer:
A) Drink at least eight 8-ounce glasses of water each day
B) Be sure the amount of fruit, vegetables and fiber in your diet is adequate."
D) Include psyllium supplements in your diet daily".
E) Increase your exercise routine to include 1 hour of exercise every day." tion are absorbed
lower in the digestive tract and can be irritating to my intestines or inadequately absorbed by my
inflamed tissue."
Question:
11. which one of the following statements by the parent of a child indicates that further
teaching by the nurse is required?
Answer:
A) Now that my child is 2 years old, I can let her sit in the front seat of the car with me."
Question:
12. pressure ulcer form primarily as a result of which of the following?
Answer:
