NCLEX-PN Test prep Question and answers 100% correct 2025

NCLEX-PN Test prep Question and answers
100% correct 2025
Select the member of the healthcare team that is paired with one of the main functions of this t
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A. Occupational therapist: Gait exercises
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B. Physical therapist: The provision of assistive devices to facilitate the activities of daily living
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C. Speech and language therapist: The treatment of swallowing disorders
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D. Case manager: Ordering medications and treatments - ANSWER *Correct Response: C*
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Speech and language therapists assess and treat patients with a swallowing disorder; they also a
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ssess and treat patients with speech and communication problems as often occurs after a cerebr
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ovascular accident, or stroke. *Occupational therapists assist patients with their activities of dail
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y living and they also provide patients with assistive devices to facilitate eating and dressing.
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*Physical therapists perform rehabilitation and restorative care including help with ambulation a
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nd balance/gait exercises.
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*Lastly, case managers coordinate care along the continuum of care and they manage insurance
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reimbursements.



The recommended daily caloric intake for sedentary older men, active adult women and childre
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n is:
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A. 2400 calories
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B. 1600 calories
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C. 2800 calories
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D. 2000 calories - ANSWER *Correct Response: D*
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Sedentary older men, active adult women and children should all have 6 ounces of grains, 2½ cu
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ps of vegetables, 2 cups of fruits, and 3 cups of milk to help make up their 2000 calorie requirem
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ent. Sedentary adolescents require 2400 calories, sedentary women and children require 1600 c
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alories and active adolescents need 2800 calories daily.
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Ill health, malnutrition, and wasting as a result of chronic disease are all associated with:
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,A. Surgical asepsis
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B. Catabolism
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C. Cachexia
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D. Venous stasis - ANSWER *Correct Response: C*
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Ill health, malnutrition, and wasting as a result of chronic disease are all associated with cachexi
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a. Cachexia can also result from dehiscence of a surgical incision or rupture of wound closure.
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*Surgical asepsis refers to using a sterile technique to protect against infection before, during, a
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nd after surgery. The breakdown of tissue, especially after severe trauma or crush injuries is kno
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wn as *catabolism.
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*Venous stasis is a disorder related to pooling of blood in a vein of the body; venous stasis typic
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ally occurs in the lower extremities and it is one of the many hazards, or complications, of immo
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bilization.



Select all the possible opportunistic infections that adversely affect HIV/AIDS infected patients:
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A. Visual losses
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B. Kaposi's sarcoma
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C. Wilms' sarcoma
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D. Tuberculosis
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E. Peripheral neuropathy
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F. Toxoplasma gondii - ANSWER *Correct Response: B, D, F*
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Kaposi's sarcoma, tuberculosis, toxoplasma gondii, mycobacterium avium, herpes simplex, histo
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plasmosis and salmonella infections are HIV/AIDS associated opportunistic infections.
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*Although many affected patients can experience blindness and peripheral neuropathy, these di
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sorders result from impaired nervous system damage rather than an infection.
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*Lastly, Wilms' tumor (sarcoma) is a pediatric form of kidney cancer and it is neither an infection
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nor something that typically affects the patient with HIV/AIDS
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What can help reduce a patient's anxiety and postsurgical pain?
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,A. Preoperative teaching
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B. Preoperative checklist
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C. Psychological counseling
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D. Preoperative medication - ANSWER *Correct Response: A*
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Patient teaching before surgery not only helps to reduce a patient's anxiety and postsurgical pai
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n but it also decreases the amount of anesthesia needed and a lack of anxiety additionally spee
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ds up wound healing. Preoperative checklists are a form of nursing documentation that is used t
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o guide and document the care of the patient before surgery. Psychological counseling is typicall
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y NOT necessary except under highly unusual circumstances and preoperative medication can d
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ecrease the amount of anesthetic needed and respiratory tract secretions but it does not help w
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ith postoperative pain.
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Which disease decreases the metabolic rate?
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A. Cancer
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B. Hypothyroidism
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C. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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D. Cardiac failure - ANSWER Answer: B- hypothyroidism.
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When caring for an infant during cardiac arrest, which pulse must be palpated to determine card
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iac function?
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A. Carotid
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B. Brachial
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C. Pedal
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D. Radial - ANSWER Brachial (B).
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The patient after surgery should be sitting when deep breathing and coughing because this posit
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ion:

A. Is physically more comfortable for the patient
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, B. Helps the patient to support their incision with a pillow
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C. Loosens respiratory secretions
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D. Allows the patient to observe their area and relax - ANSWER Supports their incision! (B)
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Which procedures necessitate the use of surgical asepsis techniques? Select all that apply.
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A. Intramuscular medication administration
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B. Central line intravenous medication administration
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C. Donning gloves in the operating room
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D. Neonatal bathing
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E. Foley catheter insertion
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F. Emptying a urinary drainage bag - ANSWER B, C, F.
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What is the ultimate purpose and goal of performance improvement activities?
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A.To increase efficiency
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B.To contain costs
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C.To improve processes
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D.To improve policies -
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OANSWER C. Even if you don't know the information in the question, be sure to use common sen
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se & process of elimination. Example: "goal performance *IMPROVEMENT* activities". The key
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word here is improvement. You can instantly remove A & B. Now, read further into the question.
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OYour next hint is going to be the word performance. so, performance improvement matches wit
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h improve process the best.
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The primary difference between practical nursing licensure and a nursing certification in an area
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of practice is that nursing licensure is:
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A. Insures competency and a nursing certification validates years of experience.
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B. Mandated by the American Nurses Association and a nursing certification are not.
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C. Is legally mandated by the states and a nursing certification is not.
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