REAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+
A client who has frequent watery stools and a possible clostridium
difficile infection is hospitilized with dehydration. Which nursing
action should the chage nurse delegate to an LPN?
A- Performing ongoing assessments to dtermine the client's
hydration status
B- Explaining the purpose of ordered stool cultures to the client
and family
C- Administering the ordered metronidazole PO to the client
D- Reviewing the client's medical history for any risk factors for
diarrhea - ANSWER
-C- Administering the ordered metronidazole PO to the client
*LPNs can't assess, teach, or determine risk factors
A client with peptic ulcer disease (PUD) reports dark, coffee
ground vomitus. The nurse would recognize that this is a result
from
A- Mixing of blood and fecal contents
,B- Presence of mucous from the large intestine
C- Blood being changed by gastric secretions
D- Fresh bleeding in the epigastric stomach region - ANSWER -C-
blood being chagned by epigastric secretions
Which assessment information will be the most important for the
nurse to report to the health care provider about a patient with
acute cholecycstitis?
A- Urine is clear yellow
B- stools are gray colored
C- Decreased pain after analgesic
D- Complaints of heartburn - ANSWER -B- stools are gray colored
LPNs Can... - ANSWER --administer meds
-chart
-take vitals
-change dressings
-collect specimens such as blood and urine
-insert and care for urinary catheters
-care for patients with vents and trachs
-insert and care for NG tubes
-provide feedings through nasogastric or G
tubes -monitor patients
-know when to call physicians
, -perform CPR
-Execute a nursing care plan formulated by RN
LPNs Cannot... - ANSWER --perform initial assessments
-determine nursing diagnoses
-patient teaching
-evaluate care
-push IV medications
This literary character chose nursing because she had no other
avenue for employment - ANSWER -Sairy Gamp
Founded the Henry Settlement - ANSWER -Lillian Wald
MASH showed the bility of nurses to cope with war by using what?
- ANSWER Humor
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest increased awareness of the
rights of which populations - ANSWER -Vulnerable
Lillian Wald is an early pioneer of what kind of nursing? - ANSWER
-Occupational Health
What statue honors all military nurses? - ANSWER -Spirit of
Nursing