NACE EXAM SCRIPT COMPLETE
ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Patient's order states to give digoxin 0.125mg and what's
ordered is digoxin 0.05. How many mg of digoxin will the patient
receive?
Answer: l/0.05 x 0.125 =2.5 mg
Remember orderxdosage
◉ Doctor asks the nurse on the elevator how is his patient in
room 913 doing? What is the nurses' response?
Answer: Let's step off the elevator to discuss this
◉ A patient is having a grand mal seizure and is found
unconscious. What will the nurse do first?
Answer: Protect the patient from injury (loosen neck tie)
Hold head in lap if on the floor; then position the patient to
provide a patient airway
◉ What size gauge needles you would use to give intramuscular
injections?
Answer: Gauges 22-25 needles (in the muscles)
, ◉ What size gauge needle would you use to give Subcutaneous
injections?
Answer: Gauges 23-25 needles. Subcutaneous injections are given
in fatty tissue over triceps
◉ Subjective Data
Answer: things a person tells you about that you cannot observe
through your senses; symptoms;
patient tells you how/what they feel: pain,
ex. Patient states he feels dizzy and patient said he fell down the
stairs, itching.
◉ Objective Data
Answer: information that is seen, heard, felt, or smelled by an
observer; signs.
Examples: bleeding, heart rate, wound appearance, blood
pressure, respirations, ambulation description, hives, abdominal
distention, vomiting. This is what you observe.
◉ A co-worker of a patient who is hospitalized called and asked
the diagnosis of the patient in the hospital. What is the nurses
response?
Answer: You have to contact the hospital's contact person.
ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Patient's order states to give digoxin 0.125mg and what's
ordered is digoxin 0.05. How many mg of digoxin will the patient
receive?
Answer: l/0.05 x 0.125 =2.5 mg
Remember orderxdosage
◉ Doctor asks the nurse on the elevator how is his patient in
room 913 doing? What is the nurses' response?
Answer: Let's step off the elevator to discuss this
◉ A patient is having a grand mal seizure and is found
unconscious. What will the nurse do first?
Answer: Protect the patient from injury (loosen neck tie)
Hold head in lap if on the floor; then position the patient to
provide a patient airway
◉ What size gauge needles you would use to give intramuscular
injections?
Answer: Gauges 22-25 needles (in the muscles)
, ◉ What size gauge needle would you use to give Subcutaneous
injections?
Answer: Gauges 23-25 needles. Subcutaneous injections are given
in fatty tissue over triceps
◉ Subjective Data
Answer: things a person tells you about that you cannot observe
through your senses; symptoms;
patient tells you how/what they feel: pain,
ex. Patient states he feels dizzy and patient said he fell down the
stairs, itching.
◉ Objective Data
Answer: information that is seen, heard, felt, or smelled by an
observer; signs.
Examples: bleeding, heart rate, wound appearance, blood
pressure, respirations, ambulation description, hives, abdominal
distention, vomiting. This is what you observe.
◉ A co-worker of a patient who is hospitalized called and asked
the diagnosis of the patient in the hospital. What is the nurses
response?
Answer: You have to contact the hospital's contact person.
