PN comprehensive practice Exam 2024/ Questions with
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A Nurse is collecting data from a client who has bipolar disorder and is experiencing acute mania. Which
of the following findings is the nurse's priority?
✓ lack of sleep
A nurse is contributing to the plan of care for an older adult client who has difficulty sleeping. Which of
the following interventions should the nurse include in the plan?
✓ Establish a regular exercise routine 2 hr or more before bedtime.
A nurse in a provider's office is reinforcing teaching with a client who has a new prescription for ferrous
sulfate elixir. Which of the following statements by the client should indicate to the nurse an
understanding of the teaching? –
✓ I will rinse my mouth after taking this medication.
A licensed practical nurse on a medical surgical unit is working with an RN and an Assistive personnel.
Which of the following assignments should the LPN expect to receive? –
✓ Administering an NG tube feeding to a client who had a stroke
A nurse is caring for a client who has schizophrenia and is experiencing auditory hallucinations. Which of
the following actions should the nurse take? –
✓ Offer the client headphones to listen to music.
A nurse is reinforcing teaching with a client about taking warfarin to treat atrial fibrillation. Which of the
following statements by the client indicates an understanding of the teaching? –
✓ If I forget to take a dose, I can take it later on the same day."
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A nurse is working with an interpreter to explain a diagnostic procedure to a client who doesn't speak
the same language as the nurse. Which of the following actions should the nurse take? –
✓ Ensure the interpreter is culturally compatible with the client.
A nurse is reinforcing discharge teaching with a client who has dependent personality disorder. Which of
the following instructions should the nurse include in the discharge teaching?
✓ Demonstrate assertiveness.
A nurse is reviewing a client's electronic medical record and finds that an assistive personnel recorder
the client's temperature as 35.3 degrees Celsius (95.5 degrees F) 2 hrs earlier. Which of the following
actions should the nurse take firsT? –
✓ Check the client's temperature.
A nurse is receiving change-of-shift report for four clients. Which of the following clients should the
nurse see first?
✓ A client whose urinary output was 100mL for the past 12 hrs
A nurse in reinforcing teaching about weight loss with a female older adult client who is overweight.
Which of the following statements should the nurse include in teaching?
✓ keep fat intake to no more that 30% of daily caloric intake.
A nurse is collecting data from a client who has iron deficiency anemia. Which of the following findings
should the nurse expect?
✓ Difficulty concentrating.
A nurse is reinforcing teaching with a client who has a type 2 diabetes mellitus and reports waking during
the night with tremors and anxiety. which of the following information should the nurse provide to help
the client manage his symptoms?
✓ Eat a bedtime snack
a Nurse is reinforcing teaching for a client who has a coronary artery disease and is taking low-dose
aspirin daily. The nurse should include that this medication has which of the following therapeutic effects
for CAD?
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✓ Antiplatelet
A nurse is collecting data from a client who has an unprepared femur fracture and rates his pain as 8 on a
scale of 0 to 10. The client is talking and caught with a visitor. Which of the following of the prescribed
medication should the nurse administer?
✓ Hydromorphone 5 mg orally.
A nurse is reinforcing teaching with a client who has acute diverticulitis. Which of the following
statements by the client indicates an understanding of the teaching about the acute phase of
diverticulitis?
✓ "I will receive the nutrient I need through my IV Fluid"
A nurse in reinforcing teaching with a client about cancer prevention. The nurse should include that
frequent consumption of which of the following foods increases the risk of cancer?
✓ Lamb
A nurse is assisting in teaching a group of staff nurses about hepatitis A. Which of the following modes
should the nurse include as a method of transmitting hepatitis A?
✓ Consumption of contaminated food.
A nurse is reinforcing teaching with a client who is bottle feeding he full-term newborn with formula.
Which of the following instructions should the nurse include in the teaching?
✓ Although is is unnecessary to be rigid about feeding times, six to eight feedings every 24 hrs
should support a full-term newborn's nutrition adequately. Fewer feedings in the initial weeks
could delay the estabilment of an adequate weight-gain pattern.
A nurse is assisting with the plan of care for a client following a transurethral resection of the prostate.
Which of the following interventions should the nurse include in the plan of care?
✓ The nurse should irrigate the bladder using strict sterile technique and maintain closed catheter
drainage system to minimize the rick of infection.