ATI MED SURG PROCTORED ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS(VERIFIED ANSWERS) LATEST UPDATES 2024 GUARANTEED PASS A+

A nurse is caring for a client who experienced a traumac head injury and has an intraventricular catheter (Ventriculostomy) for ICP monitoring. The nurse should monitor the client for which of the following complicaons related to the ventriculostomy?: a. Headache b. Infecon c. Aphasia d. Hypertension (Correct Answer) - b. Infecon Monitor for infection and use strict asepsis to avoid life-threatening meningis. A nurse is providing education to a client who is to undergo an EEG the next day. Which of the following info should the nurse include in the teaching? a. "Do not wash your hair the morning of the procedure." b. "Try and stay awake most of the night prior to the procedure." c. "The procedure will take approximately 15 mins." d. "You will need to lie at for 4 hours aer the procedure." (Correct Answer) - b. "Try and stay awake most of the night prior to the procedure." Tell the client to remain awake to provide cranial stress and increase the possibility of abnormal electrical acvity A nurse is caring for a client who is postprocedural following a lumbar puncture and reports a throbbing headache when sing upright. Which of the following acons should the nurse take? SATA. a. Use the GCS scale to assess the client b. Assist the client into a supine posion c. Administer an opioid analgesic d. Encourage the client to increase PO uid intake e. Instruct the client to perform coughing and deep breathing (Correct Answer) - B, D A nurse is caring for a client who has connuous bladder irrigaon following a transurethral resecon of the prostate (TURP). Which of the following ndings should the nurse report to the provider? a Output equal to the inslled irrigate b. Client reports bladder spasms c. Viscous urinary output with clots d. Reports of strong urge to urinate (Correct Answer) - c. Viscous urinary output with clots Urine that is bright red with clots is an indicaon of arterial bleeding. A nurse is monitoring the ECG of a client who has hypocalcemia. Which of the following ndings should the nurse expect? a. Flaened T waves b. Prolonged QT intervals c. Shortened QT intervals d Widened QRS complexes (Correct Answer) - b. Prolonged QT intervals Manifestaons of hypocalcemia include ngling, numbness, tetany, seizures, prolonged QT intervals, and laryngospasm. e. Bounding pulse and bradypnea (Correct Answer) - A, B, D A nurse is reviewing the lab results of a lumbar puncture for a client who has manifestaons of bacterial meningis. Which of the following ndings should the nurse expect? a. Elevated glucose b. Elevated protein c. Presence of RBCs d. Presence of D-dimer (Correct Answer) - b. Elevated protein